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The Longinus is a 22 m l/12 electromagnetic mass driver, firing projectiles at 90 km/s. Projectiles utilize basic shield technology avoid atmosphereic friction. Only one of these cannons survived the Imperium's fall, and is now an icon of their military.

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Swayti14 4th Jun 2015

This is what you get when you ask a mad scientist to take out a wasp nest.
msasterisk 3rd Jun 2015

What do you have against orbit? XD +1
Death_Silence_66 3rd Jun 2015

This is the timeline https://powdertoy.co.uk/Discussions/Thread/View.html?Thread=20140
Death_Silence_66 3rd Jun 2015

455392 Years in the Future.
Death_Silence_66 3rd Jun 2015

@Nurgle33 The projectiles are shielded, and repel most of the atmosphere. As to the power supply, look at the main ruins save (link sign titled "Back"). The Railcannon sits on top of a massive bunker complex and a huge deut reactor.
rop1p 3rd Jun 2015

bullcrap space magic. this is taking place about 4million years in the future IIRC
Nurgle33 3rd Jun 2015

also i would like to see where this thing gets its power because it would need a seriously large rector to build up the juice for all of the electromagnets in the rail gun
Nurgle33 3rd Jun 2015

i dont really consider this a realistic threat as there only seems to be 1 and a railgun of this size would fire a projectile that would have to be travelling well over fast enough to cret enough atmosphere to the set fire to the atmosphere around it, destroying the projectile and also probably the gun
Korteweg 3rd Jun 2015

At 13% of C.
Death_Silence_66 3rd Jun 2015

Nuclear weapons don't have the area effect they do in an atmosphere. That really means nothing when the nuke is shoved inside your spacecraft and detonated.

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Longinus Anti-Orbital Railcannon by Death_Silence_66

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