Eternity RPC Board
The power systems are likely as hardened against EMP as the rest of the ship. So if the ship was designed to resist EMP, it's not likely it'd be taken out. The rails are designed to take a whoolllleeee lot of current, so I'm skeptical you could break them with an EMP attack. They're not even a complete circuit unless they have the projectile in there. EMP breaks things by overwhelming the tiny-ass circuits found in modern electronics, after all. The rails could be a path into the ship...but it could be designed to not.
This is a curious and convenient read on EMP.
The rails do melt over time (from the sheer current surging them through), which'd make them less efficient and slow down the projectile. If the melting's really bad, they might fail to fire properly, but since railguns deliver damage via kinetic energy and the projectiles don't have kinetic energy until after going through the launch, I doubt it'd explode.
A railgun's greatest advantage is it's range, and the fact that it can't really be defended against. (Though, maybe one could hit a railgun slug with another railgun slug? LOL.) Railguns actually seem to be pretty weak:
Hitting another ship with it would make a nice hole (and take out systems and people), but you'd likely need quite a few more to actually sink it. Unless you get a luck shot and hit it such that it starts taking on water. Or hit ammunition and it blows up.
This is a curious and convenient read on EMP.
The rails do melt over time (from the sheer current surging them through), which'd make them less efficient and slow down the projectile. If the melting's really bad, they might fail to fire properly, but since railguns deliver damage via kinetic energy and the projectiles don't have kinetic energy until after going through the launch, I doubt it'd explode.
A railgun's greatest advantage is it's range, and the fact that it can't really be defended against. (Though, maybe one could hit a railgun slug with another railgun slug? LOL.) Railguns actually seem to be pretty weak:
Hitting another ship with it would make a nice hole (and take out systems and people), but you'd likely need quite a few more to actually sink it. Unless you get a luck shot and hit it such that it starts taking on water. Or hit ammunition and it blows up.
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