Re: OFFICIAL - GZG: Vacuum and zero/low gravity combat…?

On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 05:36:03PM -0500, Jason Weiser wrote:
>EMP generating weapons will also be popular, take out a suit ' s
electronic
>capabilities,	and that trooper is out of the fight.

EMPs are generated when gamma rays hit _atmosphere_ and strip
electrons off atoms there; you need a magnetic field too. A nuke on
the moon or in orbit won't generate noticeable local EMP (though there
may still be some on earth - look up STARFISH PRIME and the Soviet
Project K Test 184).

>Nukes in this environment are very deadly..as there won't be an ounce
of
>protection against hard rads outside of a hab...God help you if there
is a
>solar flare during a firefight.

Similarly, you won't get any of the blast effect that comes from
compression and explosion of air. So you may actually survive being
close enough to the detonation to take a lethal dose of radiation.
Yay? :-)

(If the game goes down this path, don't forget the possibility of
"zombie troops", people who've taken terminal radiation doses but are
still going to be functional for a few days.)

Roger, who knows too much about this stuff.