Weight of a Boom gun round

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Weight of a Boom gun round

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Hello everyone,


I am trying to find the weight of a singular round for the boom gun. Can anyone aid me in this endeavor?
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yoshidwyn wrote:Hello everyone,


I am trying to find the weight of a singular round for the boom gun. Can anyone aid me in this endeavor?


Good question yoshi, someone must know.
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Re: Weight of a Boom gun round

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Lapetos wrote:
yoshidwyn wrote:Hello everyone,


I am trying to find the weight of a singular round for the boom gun. Can anyone aid me in this endeavor?


Good question yoshi, someone must know.


Well, a single round for a modern-day battleship-mounted rail gun is between 15kg and 20kg. Assuming the rule of "multiply by 10" to get how good hypertech efficiency is compared to modern efficiency, that means that a boom gun round would weigh between 1.5kg and 2kg. In my home game, I've been describing them as "kilogram-weight slugs fired at a not-insignificant fraction of the speed of light." (Though that "not-insignificant fraction" is still only like 1% of 0.01c. It just sounds like a cool comic-book style description, even if it's an exaggeration.)
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