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On hiding dead bodies:
Posted by: Psuedo
Posted by: teh Chaz
Inside another dead body. It's the last place they'll lookA corpse within a corpse.
CORPSEPTION.Win.
Posted by: Nocbl2
If it was weaker, why can it one-shot a cruiser?Struck bare hull in an unshielded point, directly into the power coil of a major weapons system.
Plus - ship MAC fires a 600ton round at something like Mach 43, with a closing impact force roughly equivalent to a 71 kiloton detonation. The Onager[sp?] fires a round weighing no more than a few kilos with an energy of 1.1GJ - this is equivalent to 'just' 234kg of TNT. Slightly less than a quarter ton, and 1kg of explosive is generally enough to obliterate a car.
The main reason for concern with a ship MAC is its vacuum trail, in atmosphere.
A 5-inch long kinetic dart used in Flechette rocket systems aboard Apache gunships travels at Mach 3.3, and can strip muscle from bone by passing within a few feet of a person. A MAC round is 10 metres long at travels at over ten times that speed. If the Falcon had been between the Spire and Grafton (though as far away horizontally as you'd like), they'd probably have been knocked out of the sky, if not been shredded.
[Edited on 12.19.2010 5:43 AM PST]