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Originally posted by NemeBro
Oh yes, and the Volcano Cannon in that video? At base it can destroy Imperial Navy ships. Which can easily withstand the heat and pressure of a sun, and has in several novels (Fulgrim comes to mind). That is a Volcano Weapon powered by Spoiler:
the Warp
.Oh, and I love the downplaying of destroying that Spire. Which reached orbit, and was much thicker than the average city. The only reason it wasn't completely destroyed was because the power of the Immaterium held it together.
This is the interesting part, the Volcano cannon destroys navy ships, but does not destroy the spire which seems to be made of rockrete or w/e the concrete of WH40k is called, it blows a chunk out of it yes and the warp does indeed hold those piecies up but those piecies are very solid, large chunks, theres little to no burning or melting. This counters the second part of your post as well, the whole spire did not get destroyed and the area the Titan shot was blown apart alike to a regular military explosive, e.g. in large chunks.
Also your talking about large scale use of the weapnon, their designed to hit large targets, doubt they can even target Kain especially when he teleports, hes not technically even in the world so I doubt they could even track him anyway. On top of that, if the weapon is designed to do a lot of damage across a whole surface area of a star ship, this area is going to divided down pressurewise even more on kain whos tiny, meaning hes going to be taking like 5% (random figuire but not the point) of the damage a starship would unless it can be proven the Volcano cannon can expend all its power into a single man sized shot. Also you mension it can expend sun pressures, kain takes sun core pressures, multiples times over.
I would like to see some of these sources.
Originally posted by BloodRain
As its a Kain thread and SP also gets that 'Sun/Earth core' isnt as tough as it sounds I'll quickly tell you why here:
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Raz strength (1.876e6) / claw tips (2e-6) = 3x Earth core (9.38e11)
3x Earth core over 1m^2 = 17x Sun core (4.7e17)
As Morrindini posted.
Now, look at the answer when I put in a humans 2k Newton strength with a 1e-6 knife tip:
Human strength (2000) / knife tip (1e-6) = (2e9)
(2e9) over 1m^2 = 8.333% Sun core (2e15)Not as impressive when you throw the ol' human version into the mix.
And a molecule is 0.0000000001m long O-o Literally you could use 10.000 meters of it and the area would be the same as one claw tip.
..been stuck on the WH40K Tropes page for a while now...
Where are you getting the human strength from? also the suns core is at 10e16 roughply pascals, so how is 17x 4.7e17?
Also how does this make it unimpressive? I dont know what knife your using but a knife can indeed penetrate a fair deal, especially if your using something sharper than raziels claw.
Originally posted by ScreamPaste
Sounds way more impressive than it is.
Confirmed to be ineffective v.s. Astartes armour, actually.Yes, Titans were designed to survive massive, high tech weaponry, but someone with a butter knife hacking at their paint will bring them down.
Not reall,y it is pretty impressive, creating the pressures of the Earth core in 1 mm^2 is nothing you can shrug off just because "its really high tech!"
Because its a mechanism, something youve yet to realise also is that the blade/weapon itself would have to chomp/grind as the source says, because its a chainsaw, it would also make only tiny holes since its as you say monomolecular so it makes sense only entities that can be slashed in half or destroyed would be harmed.
A butter knife? not sure "someone with a butter knife" could, but a molecular blade with space marine strength? I have yet to see any logic or reasoning or a feat to suggest a smaller unit cannot damage a Titan, infact apprently void shields do not even work in melee, so thats one form of its "high tech" protection gone.