Then YJ reverse-engineered the system and hacked the original EVO hackers.Īnd everyone else developed/bought/stole the tech, too. PanO was the first nation to have EVO hackers. So something the size of a Very Large Crude Carrier (~200,000tons) can easily get to terrifying speeds in Infinity. If you didn't turn over, you'd impact Mars at 370kps. Earth to Mars at 0.01 gee, call it 10cm/s/s, takes 30 days and has you at 185kps at midpoint. Interplanetary travel in Infinity uses Vila boosters (picture the rings from Cowboy Bebop or the relays from Mass Effect), so it's roughly Brachisochone, or continuous acceleration. Slowest boat to Saturn is a total of ~15.2 kps (yes, it takes just as much to get to freaking Saturn as it does to get out of Earth's atmosphere). Getting there quickly takes a lot more delta-Vee. Once you get into orbit, you're halfway to anywhere, if you can take your time getting there. 11.2kps is escape velocity for earth, but you only need ~7.6kps to get to orbit. That's 6300kg hitting the planet at 10,000kps. In fact, the only explosive charge on most space weapons is probably a 'range safety' like how modern AA rounds detonate when the tracer burns out (to prevent a whole round from coming back down to the ground and damaging what you're attempting to protect).Ħ.3x10^16 joules is 15 megatons, or one Tunguska. At 3km/s, you pack your own weight in bloom. With sufficient speed, you don't need an explosive charge.
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