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Master of Ossus wrote:

Sea Skimmer wrote:

IG-88E wrote: 1: since when do protorps emit an EMP?

2: because we've never seen one used.

Proton torpedoes use nuclear warheads. Set one of those off in space and you get a big EMP pulse.

I don't think they're nuclear weapons. They appear to use some other version of high-explosives to create a 250-750 MT (upper limit), directed blast. That's pretty tough with a nuclear payload.

They have been repeatedly identified as shaped charge nuclear weapons in the EU. Building a 750-megaton nuclear warhead s no big deal. The US could do it with ease. Heck the Russians designed and built their 100-megaton super bomb in a matter of weeks.
Building one the size of a basketball would be slightly harder.

consequences wrote:No, the ideal battle droid is a mouse droid with a thermal detonator inside.

That's a Palestinian battle droid.

Darth Wong wrote:

consequences wrote:No, the ideal battle droid is a mouse droid with a thermal detonator inside.

That's a Palestinian battle droid.

ROTFLMAO!!!

Sea Skimmer wrote:Proton torpedoes use nuclear warheads. Set one of those off in space and you get a big EMP pulse.

No, they are not nuclear, they are some weird kind of proton-scattering warheads.

His Divine Shadow wrote:

Sea Skimmer wrote:Proton torpedoes use nuclear warheads. Set one of those off in space and you get a big EMP pulse.

No, they are not nuclear, they are some weird kind of proton-scattering warheads.

Multiple EU sources disagree with that.

Sea Skimmer wrote:Multiple EU sources disagree with that.

These are?
Personally I like the proton-scattering thing, removes all these bullshit debates about proton yields, shield vulnerabilities and all that crap.

Sea Skimmer wrote:

His Divine Shadow wrote:

Sea Skimmer wrote:Proton torpedoes use nuclear warheads. Set one of those off in space and you get a big EMP pulse.

No, they are not nuclear, they are some weird kind of proton-scattering warheads.

Multiple EU sources disagree with that.

What sources? What do they say? Many of them claim that there are "thermonuclear explosions" in space around very large ships, but I don't think they are ever clear on what is causing such explosions.

EU stupidity and inconsistency. Anyways the protons would still fuck up electronics, wouldn't they?

His Divine Shadow wrote:

Sea Skimmer wrote:Multiple EU sources disagree with that.

These are?
Personally I like the proton-scattering thing, removes all these bullshit debates about proton yields, shield vulnerabilities and all that crap.

Page 18 of SWICS for starters.

"Proton torpedoes such as the MG-7-A's carried by the X-wing are extremely dangerous focused nuclear explosions."

The proton scattering information comes for where exactly?

Something else, ATOCICS credits the LAAT with among other possible missile loadouts "electromagnetic pulse effects"

If such was effective against the driod army then I would expect them to use those against at least the rear driod ranks rather then the explosive missile they where firing.

I forgot to mention my "tiny robot spider" battle droid's main advantage:

They can access almost all terrain which humans can't pass.

And they can be deployed in very large numbers from airborne units.

Just a point, don't you require the nuclear detonation to be in an atmosphere to produce a good EMP? Interactions with Earth's magnetic field and atoms in the atmosphere or something like that.

Sea Skimmer wrote:Page 18 of SWICS for starters.

"Proton torpedoes such as the MG-7-A's carried by the X-wing are extremely dangerous focused nuclear explosions."

The proton scattering information comes for where exactly?

Thats not a contradiction though, the proton-scattering warhead could generate a nuclear explosion for all we know.
The source is the EGWT.

Neko_Oni wrote:Just a point, don't you require the nuclear detonation to be in an atmosphere to produce a good EMP? Interactions with Earth's magnetic field and atoms in the atmosphere or something like that.

Thats one way to produce a EMP blast, but there are other methods.