While going through my old T4 Book 3 the Imperial Supply Catologue I came across an entry on magnetic shielding. It basically adds extra armor to any type of attack that can be influenced by magnetic force so plasma, fusion, PAWs, and most projectile weapons. My question is would a meson weapon be affected by a strong enough magnetic field since a meson weapon is technically a type particle accelerator.
Question On Sheilding
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mike wightman
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Good question. My answer is no, meson weapons are not affected by magnetic armour. Electricity and magnetism are both properties of normal matter and according to the description "mesons" do not interact with normal matter.
There's probably more to the meson screen than running a current through the hull to make an electromagnet.
That said, it's your game. If you want to have magnetic shielding affect meson guns then do it
There's probably more to the meson screen than running a current through the hull to make an electromagnet.
That said, it's your game. If you want to have magnetic shielding affect meson guns then do it
NO. Only things with charged particles are affected by magnetic fields. Mesons have no charge so they're unaffected.
Magnetic armor would be useful against plasma guns and fusion guns since those are essentially bolts of ions. It would also work against HEAP warheads.
Paricle beam weapons no. Charged particle beams,yes. But a space-to-space PBW has got to have a neutral charge or repulsion would blow the beam apart before it goes 100 km
Lasers no No electric charge on light.
Missiles maybe, probably not The given enough megawatts the mangnetic field could be manipulated to jam the guidance and fuse, but only in the last microsecond, probaably not quick enough to do any good.
Nuclear weapons no. The radiation is mostly neutrons (D-T reactions) or photons (D-T converted to X-rays, or p-p) neither is affected by magnetic fields.
Gauss Weapons yes The projectile is magnetic in Traveller rules.
Chemical projectie weapons no Most APDS or APFDS projectiles are non-magnetic tungsten or DU. HE shells are unmagnetized iron.
Solar flares, yes.
Magnetic armor would be useful against plasma guns and fusion guns since those are essentially bolts of ions. It would also work against HEAP warheads.
Paricle beam weapons no. Charged particle beams,yes. But a space-to-space PBW has got to have a neutral charge or repulsion would blow the beam apart before it goes 100 km
Lasers no No electric charge on light.
Missiles maybe, probably not The given enough megawatts the mangnetic field could be manipulated to jam the guidance and fuse, but only in the last microsecond, probaably not quick enough to do any good.
Nuclear weapons no. The radiation is mostly neutrons (D-T reactions) or photons (D-T converted to X-rays, or p-p) neither is affected by magnetic fields.
Gauss Weapons yes The projectile is magnetic in Traveller rules.
Chemical projectie weapons no Most APDS or APFDS projectiles are non-magnetic tungsten or DU. HE shells are unmagnetized iron.
Solar flares, yes.
