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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] When people say that a "torpedo" consisting of just plasma and a warp field sounds too advanced, I'm tempted to think that it's actually more primitive than anything the Feds have. I'm reminded of guided missile development in general. More and more of the "intelligence" of the weapon system is moved from the launching end to the actual weapon as technology advances. First, it's just a roughly aimed cannon with an inert projectile. Then aiming gets better and the projectile gets a fuze. Then there comes onboard propulsion, maneuverability and guidance, but at first it's through wires, with an actual human squeezing a joystick. And gradually the "eyes" move from the controller to the missile, and then the "brain" follows, bit by bit. A system wherein the launching ship projects a warp field and possibly can also manipulate it after projection would be similar to a primitive wire-guided missile in many ways, but also to a primitive cannon in others. If the ship is responsible for generating the field, then what is being propelled doesn't matter. It could be a solid projectile, it could be a cloud of plasma, it could even be the enemy ship if the firing vessel gets lucky... Such a weapon would only require lots of raw power (something the Romulan ship seemed to be short of, but perhaps only because this weapon sucked up so much power), not much finesse. And the firing vessel would be a sitting duck throughout the procedure, since this would not be a fire-and-forget weapon. As for the photon torpedo mysteries, I think the glow is indeed best explained as a "leaky", "coarse" warp field, with the color varying for the same reason the warp nacelles of different races glow in different colors. The black casing color would simply tell of the natural color of the superhard material the casings are primarily made of. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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