Re: New poll (Nebula v Nebulon) -- Star Trek vs Star Wars

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Subject: Re: New poll (Nebula v Nebulon)

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The Divine Shadow

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Date Posted: 22:58:10 10/25/02 Fri
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In reply to: Warspite 's message, "Re: New poll (Nebula v Nebulon)" on 08:34:30 10/25/02 Fri

>>In one of the NJO books (I think "Star by Star") we
>>see a special variation on the proto-torp in orbital
>>mine form. A heavily modified smuggler freigter (so
>>we know it has good armor and survivability as it is
>>owned by a long time smuggler, one in the business
>>long enough to know that the more durable the ship the
>>better) he drifts into the minefield, 3 mines overload
>>the shields (he would probly have military grade
>>shields like most smugglers [Han Solo, Talon Karrde])
>>the next mine plows through the bridge window and
>>takes out much of that deck, the next mine plows into
>>one of the engines and the explosion destroys them
>>all. The other two blow open the cargo holds, this is
>>a very large freigter at least 900 meters long, the
>>explosions were seen over much of the surface of the
>>ship, so these mines and the torpedoes they are based
>>off of are atleast 20 MT.
>
>That would not seem unreasonable to me. If the torpedo
>was modified, and the engines and other un-needed
>features were removed, there is no reason why the
>yield of a 1.5MT torpedo could not be increased to
>make a 20MT mine. How big is a proton torpedo?

The torpedo looks to be a cone about the size of a fighter pilot's helmet. (I get this by looking at the torpedoes in the magazine to the sides of the cockpit on the cutaway and imagining the pilot in the cockpit and the torpedoe seems to be the size of a pilot's helmet, maybe a little bigger, maybe a little smaller.

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