[Spaceships] DS-1 Orbital Battle Station

[Sunrunners_Fire]

Originally Posted by Lamech

Oh, and the GURPS spaceships weapon engeries must be an abstraction. A 1MJ laser hitting a person by GURPS rules would vaporize the guy. In reality a 1MJ hit would increase someone's average body temp by less than 7 degree's kelvin. Certainly spectacularly lethal, especially since it will mostly be on the skin, but not even close to enough to cause bodily destruction.

Math: A person has 40 liters of water. Each liter of water takes a kilocal to raise a degree or roughly 4kj. For all 40 that's 160 kj. 160kj*7>1MJ.

They aren't even an abstraction, rather outright fabrications. They are numbers provided instead of names like "big, small, medium, huge" because otherwise the author would have run out of names before it ran out of weapons to list. I can try finding the author's post indicating this if you'd like?