I love this idea, deployment to the battle area by airplane.
Just humor(?): if they were based on info from the anime(ep.2? I think), I don't think this airborne deployment would be possible since their weight is in...kt(kiloton) instead of kg(kilogram).
Anyway, I also love this kind of awesome deployment!
Just humor(?): if they were based on info from the anime(ep.2? I think), I don't think this airborne deployment would be possible since their weight is in...kt(kiloton) instead of kg(kilogram).
Anyway, I also love this kind of awesome deployment!
If their weights are in kilotons (just like the real ships), then their life as a humanoid must be uncomfortable....
Just humor(?): if they were based on info from the anime(ep.2? I think), I don't think this airborne deployment would be possible since their weight is in...kt(kiloton) instead of kg(kilogram).
Anyway, I also love this kind of awesome deployment!
needmoarbaccano! said:
If their weights are in kilotons (just like the real ships), then their life as a humanoid must be uncomfortable....
Actually, that's pretty significant, and is something I choose to ignore as the implications shatters my willing suspension of disbelief.
If we just convert a normal person's weight from kilogram(me)s to ton(ne)s, that means they are a thousand times denser than the average human, or about... fifty times denser than the densest-known substance on Earth. If we go with their actual displacements as ships, then they are about hundreds of thousands to millions of times denser, comparable to the lower end of electron-degenerate matter found in white dwarf stars (which is like, dense enough to 'start' giving the Pauli exclusion principle a big fat middle finger).
So, on the lower end of the scale you have to wonder how do the shipgirls float, much less skate around on water. And what kind of super-materials are the buildings made out of, really, to support their weight. Also TTK is like one Inazuma-trip (or Kongou-hug) away from becoming chunky salsa (maybe that's why he doesn't show up).
On the higher end of the scale we are looking, at say, an energy requirement of a thousand nukes (take the exact number with a fair-sized grain of salt, this is mostly guesswork) exploding every second or so just to keep Nagato from imploding on herself from her sheer mass.
Just to give some perspective, a mere tablespoon of whichever stuff the shipgirls are made out of would weigh from 15 kilos (33 lbs) to 15 tonnes, depending on which scale we're using.
Yeah, authors can't do math, etc. etc., but this makes air-filled Wailord balloons look tame.
