EVE General Discussion

See that is the fun thing about electronic warfare, I already know you're trying to shoot me before you even fired. My hopes is your computer shoots the completely wrong thing. Or even better, how do you know you are about to hit is friendly? IFF singals havent confirmed yet and the return on the sensors isn't all that good of a resolution lighthours out of range.

While EVE features FTL travel, to size up the universe you need to realize that it features nothing moving through space at anything approaching the speed of light.

EVE features two forms of FTL travel: warping and jumping. Neither involves matter accelerating to or beyond the speed of light. "Warp", as proposed in EVE and several other sci-fi worlds, involves isolating a bubble of space-time around an object and then moving that space-time somewhere else. General Relativity does not impose any speed limits on space, so on this face of it, this seems to be "allowed". However, it is important to understand that the ship itself actually remains stationary in its space-tie "bubble".

Jumping is a different mechanism in EVE and other sci-fi worlds, but it also does not require matter to move through space at non-relativistic speeds. In a nutshell, "jumping" involves connecting two remote parts of space-time together directly. This provides a short cut between those two points, and you can traverse between them at normal speeds and spend less time doing so than light would require to traverse them via another route. This also seems to be allowed by General Relativity, where space is non-Euclidean and the shortest difference between two points is not necessarily a straight line.

That said, scientists are skeptical that either mode of transportation is technically possible. Both ideas, on their face, offer up sufficient paradoxes or such ridiculous energies as to render them either impossible, impractical, or both. But, it's just a game. ;)

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With respect to the titan: If it was blown up from geostationary orbit, some of the mass would be accelerated to escape velocity, while some would be directed into a decaying orbit. You'd have some portions that would never hit the planet, some that would hit the planet soon, and some that would hit the planet later.

A lot would depend on the force of the explosion and how the titan was flung apart.

I am no expert, but I was pointing in the direction that needs attention thus helping those who have more tools than I do remember something they may have forgotten. You also forgot to add I read popular science articles.

Tell that to the humans that decided to get their collective asses handed to them by some blue smurfs on Pandoria because they choose a direct assault over a perfectly safe orbital bombardment.

I'm going to assume the desperate last efforts of the crew likely significantly reduced its speed as it fell towards the planet. From what we saw in the DUST servers, most of the titan seemed intact, sticking out of the ground at an angle. I'd argue this in itself is proof that the titan didn't impact with the speed and destructive potential you suggest.

This is probably the point to start listing make-believe science thingies likely to be found on make-believe faster-than-light starships, such as inertia dampeners, gravity-wave-fronts and emergency thrusters. Hell, maybe a caldari titan has all three, and even more! No doubt the brave crew used such things to try to save their lives, as well as their beloved planet.

You guys are dumb. Caldari Prime is only 6000 years old, as is the rest of the universe. You know this if you read the bible. Also the eve gate was put there to trick people into thinking the universe is older than 6000 years. Space Satan is deceiving you.

In other words , we are talking about the famous Einstein Rosen bridge , but if thats their ONLY form of FTL travel , that would reckon the question.
How is information instantaneously relayed across the ENTIRE cluster without lag or delay?

lol @ assuming the titan's density as a piece of solid metal.

AH-HA!
I FOUND IT!
COMPLETE caldari prime geological and gravitational data :
Well.. not really complete , but its a NICE start.

Attributes
Planet Type Planet (Temperate)
Density 1467990 kg/m³
Eccentricity 0.014
Escape Velocity 12.248 km/s
Mass Dust 6.445e+24 kg
Mass Gas 8.734e+24 kg
Orbit Period 3785.4 days
Orbit Radius 5.181 AU
Pressure 21.12 kPa
Radius 13,503 km
Surface Gravity 7.618 m/s²
Temperature 297.00 K

Alright then, the planet mass would then by approximately (Neglecting the Equatorial bulge since I am in a state of Apple CIder induced "cannot be arsed"), but here , if you feel like it . Do it


Kudos to Kepler

planet mass (M) = 2.0816437768816E+25 kilogram
GEO orbit radius from surface = 13504.618km
If some of ya love integration , you would get a MUCH more accurate result than mine . The following would be slighly overestimating the effects , but meh.

The titan would impact earth at 14343.88176192205 ms-1 (14.3kms^-1)
Considering it was a vertical drop , the sphere of debris would be well within that of a small country , so lets say
The KE of the impact would be around 249982536960Megajoules = 59.747260267686 megaton of TNT .

Well.. then ..
That isn't so bad after all ..
If the magical fusion core doesn't explode

Unfortunately nobody in EVE actually travels at the speed of light.