Re: A new Game story (From the begining)
El_Phil writes: "So a 10TW reactor powers the magnets for 10 seconds and you've put the same amount of power into the final weapon, but with a reactor 10 times smaller."
To accelerate a projectile to 0.1c in 10 seconds, the railgun would have to be about 150,000 km long. By comparison, the average earth-moon distance is about 384,000 km.
A railgun that could do the job in 1 second would be "only" about 1500 km long, but of course it would require 10 times the reactor capacity.
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