![]() ![]() ![]() Fortunately, space is non-conductive, so in a vacuum you'll do fine (assuming you've dealt with the containment problem.) However, if you plan on fighting in an atmosphere, you'll find that heat transfer becomes prohibitive, severely limiting range. Any gas that does not disperse probably won't be able to do anything to the target. Moreover, once the projectile loses enough heat, it ceases to be a plasma and becomes just a gas, and will no longer be containable with a magnetic field, resulting in its prompt dispersion. If the environment is conducive to heat loss, your plasma shot loses much of its destructive power based on how long it spends in flight. Plasma is only plasma under certain conditions, usually involving high heat. That brings us to the other main problem (besides power sources, but that's true of most sci-fi tech): heat loss. Then you run into ammunition limits, and you wonder if it wasn't just easier to make a kinetic weapon, since the kinetic projectile doesn't lose much of its effectiveness once it gets cold. Unless your plasma weaponry is somehow capable of putting up a magnetic field around a projectile remotely, this means that your plasma bolt will need some sort of self-supporting magnetic field, which in all likelihood means that you need an actual solid projectile. This is fortunate for users of candles and unfortunate for those seeking to make plasma weaponry. ![]() Plasma is generally quite hard to contain and keep sufficiently hot at any distance from its source. Depending on how technical you want to get, this might be better for the "Mad Science and Grumpy Technology" thread. ![]()
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