#Best romulan warp core space drop movie#

However, displaying combat over the true vastness of space would not be visually entertaining in any way, hence the visual-range combat in the TV and movie series, and why dragging a beam around is less wasteful than it would be normally. When considering landing a hit over long ranges, the pulses can be 'shotgunned' into an area of space your opponent is moving in. Phasor firing in SFB resembles that of Star Trek 2: Wrath of Khan (i.e pulsed), and now also the new movie to some extent. Damage is still limited to immediately adjacent objects. A detonating ship (self-destruct or through damage) causes damage to things nearby, based mostly on how much antimatter-related things are undestroyed on your ship. They also get a warp field generated by the engines as a propulsion method (that's why their damage isn't range dependant, like disruptors). Photon topedoes have antimatter warheads.

I guess they perform better as a fuel source, and they rare enough that you wouldn't want to waste them on weapons when it won't make a substantially bigger boom.Ĭlick to expand.I've got SFB right here on my desk. I guess they perform better as a fuel source, and they rare enough that you wouldn't want to waste them on weapons when it won't make a substantially bigger boom.ĮDIT: I also just remembered: I think Dilythium Crystals are supposed to be very rare and valuable. (In fact, if you think about it, you're going to be dead in the water if you drop your warp cores, so you'd better damn well get the bad guy.)ĮDIT: I also just remembered: I think Dilythium Crystals are supposed to be very rare and valuable. So it really is a 'weapon' of last resort. After all, if you just vented the antimatter into space, it'd blow up against your own hull most likely. I'm guessing that when you dump your warp cores, you're dumping a lot of important equipment with it. Technically, photon torpedoes use antimatter. I think the same principle holds true here. Yes, you could turn your car into a bomb, but it's not going to be as effective as a purpose-built device. as Azhrarn-101 commented: Warp cores are just anti-matter reaction chambers, but in a more controlled reaction (analogous to internal combustion engine vs. Wow, I'm about to reveal how much of a geek I really am: my friends and I used to play the Starfleet Battles table-top game.

Best romulan warp core space drop