ADM. Reshmar
Directorate Officer Fleet Admiral SJC 3rd Fleet
[member="Darth Nephthys"]
ok I would like to apologize n advance for the length of this post and the engineering concepts of it.
Firstly lets go with your instances.
Lets talk about the Ventress issue. She did not destroyed the Traquility's reactor.
From Wiki http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Tranquility
"Ventress had no intention of surrendering to the Jedi, however, and her timed explosives went off. The reactor room was engulfed in flames as the thermal detonators destroyed the Tranquility's engines, door and turbolift controls, and communication systems."
You can not hurt a reactor itself. you have to effect things that the reactor uses to regulate itself. She caused damage which made the reactors blow. That being said those were Hypermatter reactors. Solar IOn Reactors do not work the same. They are big batteries. but I will get to that later.
Anikin and the Vuutun Palaa
He fires torpedoes into the ships core yes. But he did not get close to the reactor. The torps exploded as a result of the impact with the core housing which again was a hypermatter Annhilator not a Solar Ionization reactor. They work very differently and the torps exploding did not cause the core to explode it was the reaction of the core upon losing its containment that did. You have to make a Core kill itself.
Your link pointed this out http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Reactor_core
"Reactors could function on vastly different principles, ranging from chemical reactions to nuclear fission and fusion to hypermatter annihilation."
While I am not trying to down grade your writing or your character or the force. Jumping into a reactor core is impossible for one. It is sealed. and would do nothing no matter how much of the force you were expelling. It would be like a ant jumping in front of a train going 100 miles an hour. Of to take from other sci fi. like shooting 1000 nuclear missiles at a meteor. I will explain
for all practical purposes you are trying to blow up a star. That is what a star ship reactor is. They are a small star on the verge of a supernova that produce power equivalent to Our sun's output of 3.846 x10 to the 26th power watts or 384,600,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 watts . The power of the solar ionization reactor in an IMperial Mk II star destroyer puts out 9.28 x 10 to the 24th power watts. any power she could muster with the force would just dissipate even if you could get inside the reactor. These are sealed un- serviceable, un-refuelable constructs that are just swapped out when needed. Also any matter would burn up instantly upon being exposed to it. You are talking heat close to 1.5 x 10 to the 7th Kelvin. That's 28 billion degrees Fahrenheit or 15.7 billion degrees Celsius. The instant your character was exposed to the core she was incinerated.
The emperor fell into the Death Stars reactor while expelling force lighting and it did absolutely nothing to the reactor.
There are ways to make them go boom sure. But not by going directly at the reactor. You have to effect the reactor from outside the core making it become unstable and destroyer itself. There is just no way to get close enough to it or exert enough energy to cause it to do anything but ignore what ever you did to it. A starship reactor outputs more energy in a second that a planet can if every single natural resource was converted to energy at once.
for example:
3.9×10to the 22 J estimated energy contained in the world's fossil fuel reserves as of 2010
2.2×10 to the 23 J total global uranium-238 resources using fast reactor technology
3.8×10to the 26 J total energy output of the Sun each second
Source: http://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/6402/shooting-an-energy-beam-into-the-sun-from-the-earth-in-order-to-destroy-it
I have been writing starships role play for 15 years. and been doing tabletop starship roleplay for 25. I have a degree in electrical engineering and am possibly the biggest starship nerd there is on the forum. I promise you there is no way to effect the reactor by going right at it. Blow up the cooling system or the bus conduits. have the engines send a feedback charge into it. something that works. It is very possible to blow one up just not as you described it.
Edit: SO i have been told this is too technical an answer so I will simple say this.
A reactor is simply too hot to get close enough to and has too much power for anything to effect it directly
ok I would like to apologize n advance for the length of this post and the engineering concepts of it.
Firstly lets go with your instances.
Darth Nephthys said:
Lets talk about the Ventress issue. She did not destroyed the Traquility's reactor.
From Wiki http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Tranquility
"Ventress had no intention of surrendering to the Jedi, however, and her timed explosives went off. The reactor room was engulfed in flames as the thermal detonators destroyed the Tranquility's engines, door and turbolift controls, and communication systems."
You can not hurt a reactor itself. you have to effect things that the reactor uses to regulate itself. She caused damage which made the reactors blow. That being said those were Hypermatter reactors. Solar IOn Reactors do not work the same. They are big batteries. but I will get to that later.
Anikin and the Vuutun Palaa
He fires torpedoes into the ships core yes. But he did not get close to the reactor. The torps exploded as a result of the impact with the core housing which again was a hypermatter Annhilator not a Solar Ionization reactor. They work very differently and the torps exploding did not cause the core to explode it was the reaction of the core upon losing its containment that did. You have to make a Core kill itself.
Your link pointed this out http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Reactor_core
"Reactors could function on vastly different principles, ranging from chemical reactions to nuclear fission and fusion to hypermatter annihilation."
While I am not trying to down grade your writing or your character or the force. Jumping into a reactor core is impossible for one. It is sealed. and would do nothing no matter how much of the force you were expelling. It would be like a ant jumping in front of a train going 100 miles an hour. Of to take from other sci fi. like shooting 1000 nuclear missiles at a meteor. I will explain
for all practical purposes you are trying to blow up a star. That is what a star ship reactor is. They are a small star on the verge of a supernova that produce power equivalent to Our sun's output of 3.846 x10 to the 26th power watts or 384,600,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 watts . The power of the solar ionization reactor in an IMperial Mk II star destroyer puts out 9.28 x 10 to the 24th power watts. any power she could muster with the force would just dissipate even if you could get inside the reactor. These are sealed un- serviceable, un-refuelable constructs that are just swapped out when needed. Also any matter would burn up instantly upon being exposed to it. You are talking heat close to 1.5 x 10 to the 7th Kelvin. That's 28 billion degrees Fahrenheit or 15.7 billion degrees Celsius. The instant your character was exposed to the core she was incinerated.
The emperor fell into the Death Stars reactor while expelling force lighting and it did absolutely nothing to the reactor.
There are ways to make them go boom sure. But not by going directly at the reactor. You have to effect the reactor from outside the core making it become unstable and destroyer itself. There is just no way to get close enough to it or exert enough energy to cause it to do anything but ignore what ever you did to it. A starship reactor outputs more energy in a second that a planet can if every single natural resource was converted to energy at once.
for example:
3.9×10to the 22 J estimated energy contained in the world's fossil fuel reserves as of 2010
2.2×10 to the 23 J total global uranium-238 resources using fast reactor technology
3.8×10to the 26 J total energy output of the Sun each second
Source: http://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/6402/shooting-an-energy-beam-into-the-sun-from-the-earth-in-order-to-destroy-it
I have been writing starships role play for 15 years. and been doing tabletop starship roleplay for 25. I have a degree in electrical engineering and am possibly the biggest starship nerd there is on the forum. I promise you there is no way to effect the reactor by going right at it. Blow up the cooling system or the bus conduits. have the engines send a feedback charge into it. something that works. It is very possible to blow one up just not as you described it.
Edit: SO i have been told this is too technical an answer so I will simple say this.
A reactor is simply too hot to get close enough to and has too much power for anything to effect it directly
