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How powerfull are the Xindi probe weapons (the first probe, the prototype and the final weapon). Does anybody have an idea?

PS. Some evidence for your numbers, please

Powerful enough to wipe a vote-stealing state off the face of Earth.

Impossible to tell. If I remember the scene correctly, some kind of NDF had to be involved, because huge quantities of dust and rock vapor wern't billowing out from trench as it was carved, and the ground and structures immediately adjacent to it were damaged but not destroyed.

RedImperator wrote:Impossible to tell. If I remember the scene correctly, some kind of NDF had to be involved, because huge quantities of dust and rock vapor wern't billowing out from trench as it was carved, and the ground and structures immediately adjacent to it were damaged but not destroyed.

Yeah, you remember the scene correctly. Trip was standing on the ground right next to the canyon and the plants and buildings around him IIRC showed some structural damage, but were still standing.

It killed 7 million people. Very high numbers. It must have hit a population center?

Perhaps it let off radiation...

Lord Revan wrote:How powerfull are the Xindi probe weapons (the first probe, the prototype and the final weapon). Does anybody have an idea?

PS. Some evidence for your numbers, please

That's easy; compare the energy state of the planet after the beam stopped firing. The surface is glowing hot, with numerous visible fissures. Definitely something well above the billion-megaton mark, although clearly well below the energy level required for permanent disassembly.

The weird spontaneous explosion that takes place afterwards is another matter entirely, since the beam has already stopped depositing energy at that point; chalk it up to yet another freaky Star Trek pseudoscience reaction.

Darth Wong wrote:That's easy; compare the energy state of the planet after the beam stopped firing. The surface is glowing hot, with numerous visible fissures. Definitely something well above the billion-megaton mark, although clearly well below the energy level required for permanent disassembly.

He was referring to the initial probe that carved out a new canyon across Florida, not the final weapon that actually destroyed Earth during that alternate-timeline episode (forget name) with the temoporal-parasite things...

Darth Wong wrote:

Lord Revan wrote:How powerfull are the Xindi probe weapons (the first probe, the prototype and the final weapon). Does anybody have an idea?

PS. Some evidence for your numbers, please

That's easy; compare the energy state of the planet after the beam stopped firing. The surface is glowing hot, with numerous visible fissures. Definitely something well above the billion-megaton mark, although clearly well below the energy level required for permanent disassembly.

The weird spontaneous explosion that takes place afterwards is another matter entirely, since the beam has already stopped depositing energy at that point; chalk it up to yet another freaky Star Trek pseudoscience reaction.

I haven't seen the weapon in question, however if the explosions in question are surface explosions, then perhaps it is pockets of natural gas escaping and reacting? Afterall an increased crust temperature would increase the pressure exerted by the gas contained within it, allowing it to escape and react when it reaches the surface.