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I have to ask though, how are you going to cut it off. You kinda need a sharp object for that, and I don't see any around((Minor details.))
Except that these were probably built in either an orbital shipyard, or a cage like the one the Sword is currently sitting in. Weight is not an issue when you can bend physics to your will. Plus, the ship is MASSIVE. There is a lot of space for the heat to radiate to.Which are reasons to waste material, or to go against centuries of starship design, why?
And yet it still won't melt all at once, even if the duration of the heating is not instantaneous. There is only so hot that you can make a piece of metal, and as long as it's there it will continue blocking radiant heat, instead transferring heat via its conductivity. I believe I did explain this already, but if you need a simpler explanation, think of it as a slab of meat inside an oven. You can make the oven as hot as you want, but if you don't hold the meat in there long enough, it won't cook through. Obviously in this case, the "meat" - meaning the metal of the corridor - was tough enough to withstand the heat for however long it lasted without completely melting, and it's likely that the initial pulse of heat was the strongest, flash-melting the metal surface before it was scoured by the shockwave and flung in your general direction.I get that. The thing is, we've had enough time that it could have melted. We're getting off-track anyways; the molten metal could have as easily just been the outer layers sloughing off.
...now granted, these ships are not as large as the Sword. But they are still warships, or rather defense ships, in a universe where gigantic lasers and gauss cannons are standard armaments. They are supposed to endure getting hit with pulses of concentrated heat of no less magnitude than this. And they're large enough for the impacts of several surface-to-orbit hundred-ton hypersonic projectiles to go relatively unnoticed. I'm pretty sure one measly corridor buckling is not going to inconvenience a warship in the slightest.Because weapons often involve melting a corridor in the heart of the ship.
I find it hilarious that Sean did that so soon after I demonstrated, the, ah, futility. I mean, I wasYou insult me, sir. Care for a duel?lyingusing tried and true political strategies, and I still couldn't win. What makes you think logic would prevail?
I had an Idea for a game type. A huge arena where if you kill someone, you get to use their powers. And the powers of everyone they've killed.Sounds like it would get unbalanced fast.
You mean fanfic HAS to keep to canon? *le gasp*There's a difference between "doesn't adhere to canon" and "based on the knowledge of someone who ignores more episodes than not". Might as well make your own characters at that point.
STOP THE PRESSES.
Riltia was later confirmed to be a Willborn rather than the standard Illborn that we run into in place of monsters of a typical RPG setting.So...because the one Sibling to turn into an Illborn turned into a specific subtype of Illborn, you think that Siblings who turn into a different type will look completely different.
I was just pointing out that I think if a sibling were to lose Soul Charge, but not fulfill the conditions for turning into Willborn that they would transform into a humanoid Illborn like Chief instead of a monster like an Undersucker.
I RECOGNIZE THIS PLACE!Holy shnarkies.
ARE WE IN A TEMPLE, WITH FLOORS HEWN FROM AGED CRYSTAL? HOW MUCH DO WE KNOW? HOW MUCH MUST BE SHOWN?
The crew of the Emperor's Fire switched ships, and took over yours.Oh.
Pretty much the show (to me. This is my opinion) is about how the four girls, Ruby, Wiese, Blake, and Yang, develop as friends...As demonstrated by Wiese having to learn variations on the same lesson repeatedly.
...and how they solve some secret mystery embedded in the show (Like seriously, what the hell is the headmaster planning?).Kind of interesting, I guess, but it's been shoved to the side and downplayed enough that I barely notice most of the time.
Also, that Scyther Rifle is awesome and Ruby made it herself with help from her grandfather,Nothing special.
And the spear gun has proven how useful it is time and again (seriously that catch though XD)Why the hell do they have an expensive-looking, complex, non-explosive weapon which is commonly just thrown away, without even any way to snag it back?
Also, I like RWBY. It's good action.Eh. The action is, in my opinion, pretty mediocre. They rely on the awe factor of the weapons too much, and they're just so absurd. Not to mention that if you're watching it for the action, you're watching maybe 20% of the episodes.
I give no fucks about the plot....
I just skip to shooty bits. I need my shooty. I WANT MY SHOOTY
That's why I practically ignore canon when I write RWBY fanfic.
It's not melting all at once. The metal that encounters the radiant heat first absorbs it, and heats up - the rest of the heating, until the metal boils away or is sheared away, is done via conduction, which metals are pretty good with - meaning a lot of the heat will end up dumped deeper into the ship rather quickly, but not before some of the metal melts....My point was that your point of "It all won't melt at once" is meaningless if there's more than an instant for the metal to melt. And there was significantly more than an instant, so that point is kinda invalid.
Not seeing a problem. One corridor is heated up to the point where its structural strength is severely compromised, it deforms but rapidly cools due to the gigantic mass of the rest of the ship structure conducting away the heat, because metal and heatsinks. Temperature equalizes between corridor and ship, ship as a whole warmed up by perhaps half a degree Celsius. No problem.The problem being that the spaceship, being a spaceship, was probably made as light as possible, so there are probable...structural issues with that much deformation.
