"That could work," Zero says about the shields. "And I wouldn't be surprised if he tried to fake being about to blow up, to get us to leave. Why do he and Omega explode like that anyway? The only other 'bot I can think of that blew up with enough force to take out most of their surroundings was Sunstar."
"I think you're overestimating the force of the explosion somewhat," says Lumine, who'd managed to overhear some of this on the way over to them. "We can estimate, at least, that it destroys the station but does not vaporize it, since there are fragments that fall into orbit."
"I figured better overestimate than under."
"Perhaps, but not if it causes you to overlook options. If you must compare it to nuclear weaponry, then consider the weaker ones. Let us assume the battle area is the size of a soccer field, which I expect will be an overestimate of some amount. If the initial blast covers that entire area, then it would be a bomb no more powerful than the ones dropped at the end of the second world war."
"Which destroyed whole cities, and set peoples' clothes on fire over a mile away," says Zero, dryly.
"But the estimated temperature caused by the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, at or near the detonation point, was roughly a third of the extreme that your older brother Heat can generate," says Lumine. "The blast force itself is another matter. Your alternate was likely rendered unconscious by it, if not crushed due to being caught between it and a section of Ragnarok."
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"I think you're overestimating the force of the explosion somewhat," says Lumine, who'd managed to overhear some of this on the way over to them. "We can estimate, at least, that it destroys the station but does not vaporize it, since there are fragments that fall into orbit."
"I figured better overestimate than under."
"Perhaps, but not if it causes you to overlook options. If you must compare it to nuclear weaponry, then consider the weaker ones. Let us assume the battle area is the size of a soccer field, which I expect will be an overestimate of some amount. If the initial blast covers that entire area, then it would be a bomb no more powerful than the ones dropped at the end of the second world war."
"Which destroyed whole cities, and set peoples' clothes on fire over a mile away," says Zero, dryly.
"But the estimated temperature caused by the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, at or near the detonation point, was roughly a third of the extreme that your older brother Heat can generate," says Lumine. "The blast force itself is another matter. Your alternate was likely rendered unconscious by it, if not crushed due to being caught between it and a section of Ragnarok."