)午夜领主军团的旗舰夜幕降临号的炮火在火力全开时能在数分钟内炸平一座座城市,在数小时内就摧毁一颗颗行星。从用词、描述和背景来看,这里的一轮炮火齐射还仅仅只包括了这些舰船所携带的宏炮、轰炸炮等实弹炮火,没算上光矛这种重炮,所以这个火力也基本对得上前几段原文对荣光女王级火力的描述和估算。
原文:She was filthy from her journeys andbloodied from battle, but the Nightfall wasn't without her charms. If she ranout her guns, she was capable of levelling cities in minutes, and killingworlds within hours.
- Sons of the Emperor Anthology
战锤世界观中大一些的人类城市都是分为多层、厚达数十公里、配备虚空盾并且覆盖面积在整片大陆上都能占据相当一部分的,所以要花上足足数分钟来炸也不足为奇。
下面就是一个关于它的火力输出的例子。午夜领主的舰队中,先是旗舰夜幕降临号用舰上的武器(包括光矛和质量武器)轰击星球,然后其他的舰船也加入其中,它们光矛的一束束光束加入并且拧成一股,从那精金地壳的地质薄弱点挖出了一条通往地核的通道,这些光束加在一起的这么一次齐射就直捣地心,炸碎了这颗行星。
原文:As the fabric of space buckled andtwisted, disgorging the few craft able to keep pace, the lances and massdrivers of Night Haunter's flaship opened fire upon the planet.
Beam after beam of incandescent light joined the fusillade,all concentrating upon the same point, a weak spot in Nostramo's adamantiumcrust theorised to be left by the Primarch's initial landing. The lasers of theNight Lords' ships focused a blinding lance of pure energy into the planet'score, and with a cataclysmic explosion, the dark planet burst apart.
- Index Astrates II: Night Lords
弄出炸碎行星效果的基本仅仅是最后那次光矛齐射。之前的轰击也会导致行星结构松动,但是影响不大,因为整个行星终究是松软的,并且,行星质量摆在那里,在重力作用下,炸碎它所需的能量一点也不会少。所以目前来看,还需要更多信息。
而在小说的描述中情况更加具体。当时一共有50艘船,其中包括了作为旗舰的夜幕降临号。它们是将各自的光矛火力集中起来,形成了一束非常粗的超大光柱,它足足有着1000颗被囚禁的恒星加起来的功率。光柱撕开了精金地壳上面已有的伤痕,这股能量一层层地撕穿行星,直到最终捅进地心,并发出了最后那次灾难性的爆炸。
原文:The primarch marched along the centralwalkway of the strategium to stand beneath the image of Nostramo. The moon wasemerging more fully from behind the planet and reflected light glinted on thehulls of the Night Lords’ fleet – a half century of vessels arrayed in battleformation above the diseased, corrupt boil that was the labyrinthine,crime-ridden spires of Nostramo Quintus.
(…)
"All ships. Open fire."
Incandescent spears of blinding white light leapt from thebarrels of uncounted batteries, stabbing down at the world below. Convergingand multiplying their energies, the power of a thousand caged stars coalescedinto a pillar of light thicker than the widest spire of Nostramo Quintus.
The great beam dispelled the darkness that shroudedNostramo, the skies bathed in light and fire blooming into life as the awfulheat of the Night Lords bombardment ignited the air for kilometres in alldirections.
The blinding lance of pure energy penetrated the impermeableadamantium crust of Nostramo through the ancient fault line torn by theprimarch’s arrival.
Unimaginable energies tore downwards through the planet’slayers until they reached the core in a cataclysmic explosion the likes ofwhich the galaxy had rarely seen.
- Shadows of Treachery
计算:
按照地球的重力结合能来算,需要2.4*10^32焦耳的能量,直接用平均值似乎不太合适,毕竟舰船之间的差距可以是很大的,所以这里就算夜幕降临号占了其中一半的输出,理由很简单,因为荣光女王级战列舰本就是用于对付一整支这种规模舰队的舰种。那样,它就是输出了1.2*10^32焦耳能量,也就是286.81万亿亿吨TNT当量。
至于功率,这里就将那个“1000颗被囚禁的恒星”的描述算作是1000倍于太阳级别的恒星,那样就是全舰队每秒近万亿亿吨当量,而占了其中一半的夜幕降临号自然就是两秒近万亿亿吨当量。就此,这次轰炸的总用时将会是三四分钟,也较为符合原文里面所描写的场面。
这比较符合上面对于荣光女王级威力的推算。这么说是因为,虽然上面推断出荣光女王级每轮宏炮齐射的大致范围才是达到上万亿亿吨TNT当量,而侧舷宏炮齐射间隔时间理应远远大于一秒;但舰上的门门光矛是威力远远更大的武器,无论是单门威力还是总威力,所以匀来匀去、四舍五入之后还是能够贴和上面的结果的。
结论:
夜幕降临号光矛输出功率:2*10^29瓦 或 每秒4780亿亿吨TNT当量
夜幕降临号光矛总输出:1.2*10^32焦耳 或 286.81万亿亿吨TNT当量
注意,克服重力结合能也只是堪堪从天体中心使其四散分离,而要做到炸碎的效果,所需的能量是要更多的。所以从这个角度讲,上面这个版本还是保守的。但是算法保守归保守,这个表现本身其实算是能够贴合上面对荣光女王级的计算结果的,所以去用起来还是没什么问题的。
如果要用上限版本,那么就用同样出处的武器数量描述,数百门,这么算的话单门威力就会直接爆炸,不过平时不会从这个角度算。
原文:The Night Lord's ships orbited Nostramo,hundreds of weapons trained on the shrouded planet, the rays of the system'sdying sun glinting from barrels too numerous to count.
- Index Astrates II: Night Lords