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Old 21-March-2007, 11:10 PM
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Ok then, lets stop our bickering for the moment and at least try to find a common baseline between these two universes.

Here goes some numbers that I pulled for what I’m using on the Plasma weapons
Most plasma technologies that we can understand in real life use “Cold Plasma”, now even though it is “Cold” it’s still around 7000 degrees C.

!Nerd Rant Warning!
Also in the game manual the Core Power output on a Plasma Pistol is rated at 100kV - 150kV and 2dA - 3dA. That would be 100,000V - 150,000V and .2A - .3A. So multiplying them we get the amount of Watts. So that would be 20,000W - 45,000W. This is a good unit for power but not joules, to get this converted to Joules, we make it into a Watt/hour. Which would come to 1,200,000W/h - 2,700,000W/h. After getting watt/hours it’s time to convert to joules, as 1 Watt/hour equals 3,600joules, the final number is 4,320,000,000J - 9,720,000,000J.
That’s one big battery!
Now that’s how much energy is in a fully loaded Plasma gun, lets average it to 7GJ. Now as I stated in my first post here I had ran a StarWars RPG that had covenant in it. I had to find out how many shots each gun had, and well I did, Plasma Rifle = 200 shots, Plasma Pistol = 300 shots or 11 at overcharge. So divide the battery by the number of shots and you get the output in joules per shot. Plasma Rifle = 35MJ/shot, Plasma Pistol 23MJ, Overcharged Plasma Pistol = 63MJ

Now there is going to be loss of power, through inefficiencies and equipment factors, so reduce each by 50% for magnetic containment, and energy loss to environment.
New Figures: Plasma Rifle = 17MJ, Pistol = 11MJ, and if Overcharged = 31MJ.
Ok now that it’s all figured out we can compare to other energy based weapons.

Finally, to me that looks alright. But if I’ve made a mistake in my calculation don’t hold back, tell me.

Also by all accounts in the books I think the force is with John - 117
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