Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-27642965-20160211003725/@comment-4851119-20160920184730

ReDquinox wrote: Snip Teratons in Star Wars? Ah, so you want to use the wanktastic upper-end calcs that break the setting's internal coherency?

Well, two can play at that game. ‘We should be careful. Any impact from a solid munition going at such velocity could split the planet in two,’ said Shipmaster Javin of the Battle King. ‘We cannot afford to miss.” Pharos Let's have single random macrocannon shells splitting planets eh? Mustering every iota of his concentration, he focused his psychic might into a bolt of pure force, more coherent than a laser, more destructive than an exploding sun. He hurled the bolt at Horus, a lance of power destined for the madmans heart. The Emperor's psychic blast against Horus is described as "more coherent than a laser, more destructive than an exploding sun" and since no Primarch ever shows anything like the level of durability needed to survive even a tiny fraction of such energies we can assume the Vengeful Spirit absorbed most of the force. Since the ship was intact 40K warships can take focused supernova-level energies from the inside. I've never seen a single source describing battles between ships as anything other than extended slugging matches except when one side hilariously outmatches the other, so it seems their shields and armour can take sustained bombardment from such weapons. Sorry, but your teratons just won't cut it.

Don't ever push me, for as much distaste as I harbour for unnecessary 40K wank, when the real need does arise you should never doubt that I have the will, the sources and the overblown misinterpretation to fulfil it.