How the neutron driver works
I found this particularly to be a very awesome weapon, I should thank kixeye for it, it's very cool...
Sorry to waste time BUT....
This is it
The neutron driver absorbs passive Ionizing radiation (which is every where in space) and forming a dense cluster of neutrons from the radiation
And firing those neutrons with a gravimetric shock wave
But wait there's more
The neutron driver can possibly be built to produce its own neutrons with fission techniques, but compared to today, the fission techniques would need to be massively improved...
Clearly not uranium-236 (only **** out 2 neutrons)
And the only reason the cluster **** of neutrons and falling apple disease
Is blue is simply because, it absorbs the colour from the neutron drivers innards
Even when leaving the barrel it should turn, suggestively... a dark grey colour
This post feels flawed, as if I missed something... meh
why does energy weapon even need time to travel, they should all fire like implus!
i assume that hard light projectiles are being fired (solid state light)
And beam weapons just focus a solid BEAM of light, pew pew
Actually both fire the same way firing a beam of heated plasma... the difference is that the beams are designed to focus and hold a continuos fire until the weapon starts to overheat and requires cooldown (hence the 2-3 second wait between shots) where as rays fire much smaller shots and between each the weapon only needs to cool down a small bit which happens rapidly allowing it to continuosly fire... gat ray fires much smaller bullets and 1 per barrel meaning each barrel cools while others fire so that barrel can shoot again
just existing at this point
Why would you use uranium 236 as a reference? Uranium 235 is more commonly used in fission reactions because it emits 3 neutrons when is fissioned.
elite dangerous does it better
If you had the ability to create a gravitational soliton wave (use an electromagnetic soliton wave in a particle accelerator), you could inject a plasma stream into something like a tokamak reactor, and at extreme temperatures and pressures the protons and electrons would violate Pauli's Exclusion Principle, and convert into neutrons and nuetronium. Since you are already slopping the particles around at near relativistic speeds, they are effectively hard gamma and x-rays so similar optical techniques would allow you to focus the neutronium into a projectile. Voila, a neutron driver.
Logic doesnt exist in this game bud ^^^
Technically the beams are easily capable of striking instantly from a much farther distance since rays... another light speed based projectile actually take a little time to reach the target... also its more like 3.5 or so kilometers depending on the beam (3000m=3000 meters)
just existing at this point
At max range sure, it's 3 to 4 klicks. Hell a destroyer can get pretty close to 8 which is still peabuts compared to c, but on average, most fvf happens close up. Especially when cutters are in play. Yes, I know logic doesn't apply to this game, but I have a love of speculative high energy engineering. Like how it should be adaptive optics for more range, as focusing a beam makes the point of incidence receive more radiation pressure per unit^2. Thus it gets hotter. I mean, if they were really real, continuous beams should slough off in damage over time, as the metal vapor from the hull would reflect portions of the beam back into space (a common problem of metal cutting lasers actually). Anything that fires little yellow pellets, should actually do better in a combat situation, because they allow the hull plasma to dissipate before the next hit. Still having a gravity wave accelerator sounds like a lot of fun to play with for a physics nerd.
Eh i guess it just depends on the beams heat... it does work on dot... maybe the beam just vaporizes what it hits at a slow rate
just existing at this point