Quote from Vrael
Where is this extra .025 seconds coming from? Relativistic equations?
The rail guns fire at a speed of 0.99c, meaning to cross 2.5 light seconds it will take them longer. 2.5/0.99 is 2.525.
Quote from Sacrieur
2.5 light-seconds, not light years. If you look at one of my previous posts you'll notice that BeDazed mentioned that the railgun fire will form a cone, but I showed that the angle is so small you can approximate it with a cylinder. Point being, you don't need to really calculate the area, you can assume that each railgun fire will destroy an entire horizontal cylinder through the target space, so you don't need to worry about that space. I'm pretty sure I solved this already with the 6 nukes though, you might want to take a look at my picture, up a few posts. It's a good technical problem, but I'd stop short of calling it crazy shit.
Yeah, I screwed up the wording. Though in my calculations I used light seconds. I can see no reason why a rail gun that fires a projectile in a straight line would form a cone. Idk about the nukes. The nukes aren't much larger than the blue sphere. I can imagine using all 6 of them and still have safe spots easily.
None.