EVE Fiction

Anyone care to specify what exactly would cause a spaceship to explode so violently that its reduced to a few pieces of scrap metal 100% of the time, no matter the size? Any explanation will do, as long as its specific, thanks in advance.

Game mechanics...

Truthfully we have stuff in lore and the novels that indicates ship destruction isn't quite as simplistic as we see in the game. Everything from crew survival rates (<5% to 80%) to some of the chronicles on how say the Blood Raiders operate (shoot a ship up, board it, and then hook up the survivors to pumps) indicate that ships do go down with survivors aboard. Essentially what we pick up from salvage is loose usable equipment that the scanner can identify. Considering most ships go down with 1/3rd of their modules in working order we can pickup, the visible collection of debris we see in game is probably not what is actually left of the vessel.

Camera drones are only one layer of input we receive as pod pilots. Overall there's no reason for a Caldari frigate wreck to visually be identical to a Minmatar frigate wreck. I'm going to guess that there's some sort of filter on the feed of camera drones... as there are a number of things we should see but don't (a good example is escape pods coming off ships).

^ +1 for saying rekt. I agree with your exposition! :D Muh immersiun is satisfied.

I dont know if we can get a model of blowed up raven in a place of raven, that would make game slightly more demanding from the server I think. and for the filters, I cant stick it to the game and lore, we have bodies and titans visible in the overview and in the space, and in our inventories we can see corpses. As cloning removes some of the fear of death, macabre is slightly less scary, even to the point that some capsuleers are collecting the corpses of their fallen opponents...

I'd like to note that capital and supercapital ships leave unique and identifyable wrecks. And CCP have demonstrated they have tech to produce wrecked models in a somewhat automated way, so, perhaps, the time will come for other ship classes to leave unique wrecks as well. Soon™.

Lore-wise, I really liked Quattras Peione's explanation. There is definitely much more to the camera drone than a simple camera with thrusters.

Interesting discussion

It would be quite cool for the 4 racial types to break apart in different ways due to differences in their reactor technology etc. It's technically feasible with today's GPUs, it just requires work.

For one of our old videos we imagined Caldari ships must have reactors powered by Hawking radiation, so we went with a micro black hole shockwave effect that was equal parts explosion and tidal sheer.

If you look at the construction components the Amarrians use fusion and the Gallenteans use antimatter.

You're right though, wouldn't want to be caught in that gamma ray blast. :s

I think that they are releasing new explosion effects pretty soon. They look pretty sweet but it all happens so quickly that you can't really enjoy it

Maybe slow down the explosion velocity for us onlookers?

All things considered the current explosion effects don't do these ships justice.

As for why so little salvage remains (with the exception of capitals), I would say that it has to do with the incredible amount of energy contained in a ship's warp core. It is not a stretch to say that the binding energy of particles in your ship doesn't stand a chance in hell of holding up against the blast from that dying core. The average ship can warp several thousand times the speed of light and accelerate to that speed in a few seconds.

To put things in perspective, if you were to use E=MC2 for mass energy equivalence you would need several thousand times the annual energy consumption of the United States to simply FORM a warp bubble around an object equal in mass to an EVE frigate. Let's not even go there with the bigger ships!

Now propel that already difficult to assemble warp bubble to a few billion kilometers per second!

If we are to extrapolate from Einstein's field equations and general relativity, the stress-energy tensor for forward-like momentum of a warp bubble could be considered equivalent to the "Killing Vector field" moving across the surface of a stabilized 4th dimensional Lorentzian or Pseudo-Riemannian manifold (i.e "warp bubble"). Assuming first that quantum gravity is an actual thing and that this is riding on hyperspaces like a wheel. The difference now is that the integral form of the gravitational field is no longer zero but has been altered to increase exponentially. To translate that into non-android language, it's like rolling mount Everest across the entire continent of Asia at Mach 20! .....Damn

Forget about calculations. There is no easily digestible comparison for how much energy is needed to move gravity to that speed in a matter of seconds.

If anything, eve ship explosions should be far more terrifying and destructive than any weapon currently in game!