Majincarne wrote:With an energy weapon hit it would probably be a bit more of great blinding light at eh end of the hallway any non oblique surface either combusting or melting while glowing furiously and the atmosphere turning rapidly into plasma.A missile hit may do the wall of fire its possible i would think, but probably be more fire wash around the far area and shock wave causing secondary shrapnel as it passes down the hallway.
In addition the beam weapons are going to cause quite a bit of secondary radiation. I can imagine a relatively small jagged hole passing though the ship - surrounded by a 50m hazard zone.
A missile hit though is going to do a lot more damage. (I'm assuming this *isn't* BSG, and that they don't waste their time with high explosives.) Anything nuke or higher is effectively going to be a flashbulb which pumps out gamma rays in the yottawatt range for about 40 nano seconds. Unfortunately, unless the hull or shields are magically good at reflecting this, or the missile explodes more than a few miles away, that will super heat any air or water container on the ship. Gas containers include the ship's main hull, and water containers of course includes Loroi bodies. Then there's radiation...
Assuming the pekaboo example two thirds down this page is accurate:
http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/radiat ... _Radiation
The same warhead with the same ship, and poor Floyd is going to be upchucking if he's anywhere within 3,350km of the warhead. Loroi and Umiak warships probably have better armour, but even 1100km/m2 is still going to only reduce the upchuck distance to 3.3km. And with its shields gone, I'm not sure that a Rapier CLE (for example) has that much mass to spare.
And yes, while I know the Zsar Bomba is a big bomb, antimatter is really explosive. In my proto-novel I have a material called norite. A barionic composite made from an antimatter iron-58 atom kept safe within a buckyball of carbon-12; which isn't too far removed from the 'almost antimatter' stuff used for fuel in this universe. Using norite, the zsar bomba would weigh 10kg, and be more than small enough to fit in those little bomblet missiles.