Is this laser cannon really that big?

[panton41]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

It doesn't require anything near the gravitational binding energy to render a planet, mountain range, or asteroid completely useless as a planet, mountain range or asteroid for most characters. A human corpse with 200 points of arrow damage doesn't stop being a human corpse, it isn't a person in any meaningful way. -6XHP is probably a gameable abstraction for "rendered irreparably destroyed".

In other words, if you take that 7.62mm Gatling gun and put 10,000 rounds into my poor, defenseless Toyota Echo the end result will just be a Toyota Echo with 10,000 (or fewer) holes in it. It's worthless as anything except scrap metal, but it's probably still roughly car-shaped.