About Superheated Plasma

[ThisThingisReallyBroken]

Alright so I’ve been snooping around and apparently superheated plasma can get around 11600 Kelvin (Or 11326 Celsius)

That’s pretty ******* hot. Even only vaporizing someone requires as little as 1800 Celsius.

Heat revisions are a thing,but what would be the AP of superheated plasma?

 

[DarkDragonMedeus]

Plasma can actually very greatly and there's really no baseline for plasma attacks. Fire is plasma even when it's as cool as 600 degrees Celcius. But a Lightning bolt for example is about 30000 degrees C.

As far as AP is concern, temperature alone isn't really AP; there's also got to be mass, volume, heat capacity, and most importantly watts. And even after you calculate the AP of plasma, there's several of other things to take into account when it comes to tanking it. Such as the target's surface area/volume, emissivity, thermal equilibrium, watts again. And that the sheer heat resistance won't scale to blunt force trauma by default.

 

[ThisThingisReallyBroken]

Alright so DOOM’s plasma rifle description saying it fires superheated plasma mean anything in that case? Or is it just a fancy term that has no use?

 

[DarkDragonMedeus]

It doesn't mean anything in itself. The Doom Pistol in 2016 has the 4 megawatt statement that's legit, but simply being called "Superheated plasma" doesn't really mean anything in itself.

 

[ThisThingisReallyBroken]

Last I checked 4 megawatts was 8-C correct?

Damn,really thought I had an upgrade coming in.

 

[DarkDragonMedeus]

4 megawatts is 9-B, but quite a bit above baseline; and slightly less than 1.5th of 9-A's baseline.