[Snail]

Are you sure?

Yeah. I'm sure.

In that case Orion destroyers should have been modified to carry torpedoes...

Instead of blobs.

[Dysko]

Just as a curiosity... why is everybody thinking that FS warheads are nukes?

The MX-50 table entry says that the warhead has a yield of 16,5 kilotons. That doesn't mean it's a nuclear warhead! It simply means that the warhead has the same destructive power of 16500 tons of TNT. Who knows, maybe at the time of FS there will be smaller explosives with higher destructive power than today (mini-MOAB? ).
This could be applied to every other warhead in FS.

[NGTM-1R]

Bottom line is that all weapon ranges and especially capital ship firepower have been extremely heavily attenuated to create classical space opera style combat.

I'm sorry, but your argument violates the canon, plz hang up and try again.

[karajorma]

Just as a curiosity... why is everybody thinking that FS warheads are nukes?

Cause they are.

Fusion bomb surrounded by 3 salted fission bombs - propulsion unit is a half-size version of a regulation GTA fighter thruster (Class II) - given the weight of the payloads, the missile is slow despite the power of the thruster - as the Harbinger is exceptionally large, GTA bombers are limited to carrying 6 of these weapons at any given time - the resultant shock wave from this weapon is potentially deadly, due to the size of the payloads (5000 Mt in total) - use near allied installations or allied ship groupings is strongly discouraged by the GTA - most effective when used in preemptive defensive strike against non-military installations.

Actually the GTA/GTVA used several different methods including nuclear, antimatter and meson weapons.

[Admiral_Stones]

FIVE THOUSAND ****ING MEGATONS?!

[Dysko]

Just as a curiosity... why is everybody thinking that FS warheads are nukes?

Cause they are.

Oh... forgot about the Harby

[Snail]

FIVE THOUSAND ****ING MEGATONS?!

Does ~1% damage to the Lucifer.

[Koth]

It is simply impossible to create 5000 Megatons of explosive power via fusion AND stuff it in a container the size of a Harbinger.

[Mobius]

When talking about planetary bombardments torpedoes are usually overestimated because of the blast radius.

[Snail]

It is simply impossible to create 5000 Megatons of explosive power via fusion AND stuff it in a container the size of a Harbinger.

Agreed.

[Mobius]

A "few" decades ago people said that humans would have never been able to fly...

[Snail]

Decades? Almost a century. Though FS1 IS 300 years in the future (327 to be exact).

[Koth]

That has nothing to do with technology. You can't just magically reduce the amount of space needed for the fusion fuel.

[Colonol Dekker]

It depends what you're fusing.

[Stealth]

bingo

[Mobius]

That has nothing to do with technology. You can't just magically reduce the amount of space needed for the fusion fuel.

I don't see the problem, giving the lifetime...

[Koth]

It depends what you're fusing.

You would need elements which aproximately produce 100 times more energy than the Deuterium we are using in our nukes.
Small Hint: There are none.  

[Colonol Dekker]

In the made up world of FreeSpace anything is possible heres a clue- it's a game

[Koth]

Ohh Karajorma, there art thou?

[Colonol Dekker]

The it's a game argument bites arse i know. Who's to say that the gta didn't discover a super element, i thought our nukes used uranium and beryllium? That's moot anyway. 300 years is a long time to refine tools of war, 100 years ago it took 3 months by boat to get to africa.