Talk:Sunbeam/@comment-34434007-20180122151546/@comment-29172324-20180406142615

The answer: they can't

The gun's laser has a force of 100MT. That is 2 times stronger than the TSAR bomba, most powerful nuke ever detonated. The TSAR bomba mushroom cloud reached a height of about 60960 meters, Mt. Everest is only 8,848 meters tall. The bomb was tested in Novaya Zemla, and was able to shatter windows in Norway and Finland. Which are very far apart. (Noayva is an island) So with a blast force of that, the Sunbeam has no chance.

No obvious this blast force would of destoryed the island, so either the gun didnt use a full force of 100MT, or the precursors are using some alien magic so it only destorys ships.