Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-5303512-20180429165312/@comment-5303512-20180503114653

I am working on finding the size of Typhon primaris now, I already have scalings down to people to bombs, just need to scale from that to the battle barge, then that to the planet.

When there is plenty of info given and even images from the franchise, there is plenty that can be determined through measurements and estimations.

Again, unknown properties have nothing to do with it, we go by simple calcs that can determine stats easily. Even people who are well verse in WH40k know that and can actually accomplish that measurement.

Not everything has to be done in a lab, all that is needed is the known presented information that can be determined. Even directly quoted from OBD that fictional materials can be determined to, for example, a villain boasting "This tank is made of Barritium, which is ten thousand times the strength of steel! You'll never defeat me! Mwhahahahahaha!" ...and then the hero smashes the tank in one go, and we have our answer! However, this scenario does not present itself often due to it requiring the author to actually tell us these things through the writing. We are usually left with existing materials, or scaling from what the material has withstood (a spaceship which withstood the gravitational shearing of a black hole is made out of something hard to destroy).

Still working on finding planet size through measurement and comparison

Star trek's impervious shields scale only to their highest known durability.