Phasers, how do they work?
Posted: 2003-03-18 08:12am
Well?
Personally I think they consist of several, separate components put into one.
First off, one central part is a real, normal laser, which is like a delivery system, secondly we have two more systems, one that transfers electricty, for stunning, another is for transferring nadion particles(the technobabble particle responsible for the NDF reaction).
Now when a ship fires at another ship the laser delivers both an energy beam of an unknown power that heats/melts/vaporizes the enemy hull, the nadion particles delivered along with it do the NDF reaction on the afflicted material, which might be more suspectible to it when they're in an excited state(hot).
This could explain the heating and NDF'ing effects we see.
I also assume they can alter the ratio of nadions in the beam, which is why some newer FX shots show hardly any thermal effects.
Personally I think they consist of several, separate components put into one.
First off, one central part is a real, normal laser, which is like a delivery system, secondly we have two more systems, one that transfers electricty, for stunning, another is for transferring nadion particles(the technobabble particle responsible for the NDF reaction).
Now when a ship fires at another ship the laser delivers both an energy beam of an unknown power that heats/melts/vaporizes the enemy hull, the nadion particles delivered along with it do the NDF reaction on the afflicted material, which might be more suspectible to it when they're in an excited state(hot).
This could explain the heating and NDF'ing effects we see.
I also assume they can alter the ratio of nadions in the beam, which is why some newer FX shots show hardly any thermal effects.