>>31388320Thanks! Great questions. I would say that no, it isn't quite a railgun. A railgun accelerates the projectile through the Lorentz force, which doesn't really have a vitubic analogy
yet, I have some ideas for that. The main issue with them is that the contact force between the projectile and the rails has to be pretty strong so that the current can travel through them, which results in a lot of friction, heat, and wear and tear as you say. This requirements aren't present here. The chuubanite cannon is actually closer to a crossbow, funnily enough. The reason I say that is that gas expansion (the way firearms accelerate projectiles), though it can have an influence depending on the ratio of the energy that gets converted to momentum vs heat, is not the main thing that accelerates the projectile. Instead, it's potential energy which gets stored in the chuubanite (like the energy stored in the string of a crossbow) and that is converted directly to kinetic energy. So it's kinda like a gun shaped magical ballista that can achieve higher power density than a conventional ballista.
Granted, there would be a lot of heat happening. It's only arbitrary, but I reckon maybe 20 to 40% of the energy generated by the chuubanite would end up as heat instead of kinetic energy, with further waste losses due to friction in the bore.
Oh, I was curious about what you thought of the concept of energy being introduced into the Vitium Field, amplified there, and then expelled back into the Earthly Realm? I feel like this is something that is essentially introduced by the chuubanite powers and the magic quanta entry, but this formalizes how it works a bit more maybe.
