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Or maybe Confed decided to try the psychological approach. The WC3 manual tells us that the Kilrathi built their fighters with various protrusions with the intent of psyching out their enemies. So Confed takes a page out of the kitties' book & fits this absolutely massive gun to their absolutely massive dreadnoughts and wallah! Cats running scared ;) :)
 
So Maniac was just being his usual manic self when he dreamed about a ship larger than any he'd ever seen, that makes sense...I wonder, though, why Blair described the ship as huge and bristling with guns. In any case, the PTC mounted on the Confederations was a "refinement" on a similar weapon found in the Sivar wreckage. My guess is "refinement" is the Jane's Guide way of saying beefed-up. So I believe the Confed PTC weapon was then large enough to form the keel of a dreadnought.
 
Well, I was looking at the in-game stats a few minutes ago, and it would appear that the Sivar is much, much bigger than your average Drayman :). Of course, the scales and lenghts of WC1 are still a mystery to me, so I'm afraid I cannot translate the in-game stats into metres.
 
Destroying a colony and destroying a heavily armoured capitol ship are different things. The refinement, therefore, has to be at least as powerfull as a chunk of antimatter or a small thermonuclear device. Was I reading wrong, but is it true that a gram of antimatter costs nearly 5 trillion dollars to produce by modern means?
 
It doesn't really matter, since we can't hold the anti-matter in existance long enough to do anything with it yet.

TC
 
Yes, but obviously the price will change once there's a practical use (more supply would be created) and there's a stable technology (any current price would be based mostly on the R&D required to create it)

TC
 
Yes, it was build by Confed... But it was mostly Kilrathi tech. It was like the early Confed and UBW cloaking devices. Not exactly reliable.

TC
 
Yes, there's always the possibility that the 2653 date in the KS Manual is a mistake, but shouldn't we at least try to confirm that? More to the point, is there anyone who worked on KS (or who might have source materials) with whom we could check? I ask not so much to defend the published date, but to point out that if that date turns out to be a (blessed) typo, uncovering the correct date would then not only give us the service date for the PTC, but also the date for the Confederation-class dreadnought and specifically the TCS Confederation.
 
I'm sure the price would come down. But even thought it's trillions per gram now, experiments use much less than that form what I've read. When they do use A/M for fuel, they'd probably use only minute amounts there as well.
 
That is, if someone doesn't blow a crack on this planet before that... ;)

War potential for AMatter is oh so big... :)
 
Mmmm, anitmatter. I enjoyed reading about astronomy as a kid, but the physics side of is becoming more of a mysteryt to me. Especially with the faster-than-light-but-not-really-faster experiment with particle bombardment not so long ago that someone mentioned here.
 
Oh, I wanted to learn up to nuclear physics in college, but the professor was such an a** that I ditched it in favour of other things.
 
IIRC, real world antimatter should just eliminate a similar mass of real world matter at contact, the "energy" and "anti-energy" cancel each other out, and there is no big BOOM. At least thats what logic is whispering in my ear. Checking on it, but my 14.4 isnt great to get timely results off of so if you can answer this please do.
 
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