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The Underwater Battleship Atragon Vs Destroyah
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The Underwater Battleship Atragon Vs Destroyah
by FU Rogner » Sun Sep 12, 2004 7:00 pm
The great battleship, armed to the teeth, against Destroyah.
- FU Rogner
by Lord Ghidorah » Tue Sep 14, 2004 11:31 pm
What alloy is the ship's hull? I'm thinking it was steel, given the timeframe of the movie and given that "steel" is the default metal unless special qualities are written in. Even in many futuristic settings, armor is apparently some variant of steel, as in the popular "durasteel."
The point is that even the best steel can be corroded. Micro-oxygen is implied to be much more destructive in that respect, and that's not even taking into account the possible reactions we'd get if Destroyah turned its full oxygen destroyer power against a ship made from normal materials. Oygen winds up bound to a lot of things even if they weren't made with it. I suspect that the sub was not built like MechaGodzilla, whose titanium body would be inherently resistant to corrosive effects.
On the other hand, do we know how well Destroyah's mist and breath weapon perform at range when underwater? We know from the original movie and the aquarium scene in GvsD that the oxygen destroyer effect is deadly at close range, and that it tends to diffuse through water quickly but at a rate slower than the typical Tohoverse beam weapons. In my opinion the sub's freezer weapon could prove the more effective weapon underwater, at least if Destroyah didn't break into millions of the little swimmers seen killing fish. Those might be killed en masse by the hull shock defense, though.
As spiffy as the flying sub is, I might give the fight to Destroyah because the sub's deadliest weapons - drill and freezer - are both nose-mounted and fairly short-ranged. That could allow Destroyah its own attacks, and I don't think the sub could really withstand those well.
However:
An underwater battle would have to take into account Destroyah's possible reactions when submerged. I know we were shown D-swimmies, but if we're operating under the assumption that micro-oxygen is "like oxygen only more so" then we ought to consider the possible weird chemical reactions if big Destroyah critters start using MO and oxygen destroying powers underwater. A case of self-poisoning could well result. I've always thought Destroyah's anaerobic nature ought to make oxygen - and especially micro-oxygen - poison to it, but that's Toho.
The point is that even the best steel can be corroded. Micro-oxygen is implied to be much more destructive in that respect, and that's not even taking into account the possible reactions we'd get if Destroyah turned its full oxygen destroyer power against a ship made from normal materials. Oygen winds up bound to a lot of things even if they weren't made with it. I suspect that the sub was not built like MechaGodzilla, whose titanium body would be inherently resistant to corrosive effects.
On the other hand, do we know how well Destroyah's mist and breath weapon perform at range when underwater? We know from the original movie and the aquarium scene in GvsD that the oxygen destroyer effect is deadly at close range, and that it tends to diffuse through water quickly but at a rate slower than the typical Tohoverse beam weapons. In my opinion the sub's freezer weapon could prove the more effective weapon underwater, at least if Destroyah didn't break into millions of the little swimmers seen killing fish. Those might be killed en masse by the hull shock defense, though.
As spiffy as the flying sub is, I might give the fight to Destroyah because the sub's deadliest weapons - drill and freezer - are both nose-mounted and fairly short-ranged. That could allow Destroyah its own attacks, and I don't think the sub could really withstand those well.
However:
An underwater battle would have to take into account Destroyah's possible reactions when submerged. I know we were shown D-swimmies, but if we're operating under the assumption that micro-oxygen is "like oxygen only more so" then we ought to consider the possible weird chemical reactions if big Destroyah critters start using MO and oxygen destroying powers underwater. A case of self-poisoning could well result. I've always thought Destroyah's anaerobic nature ought to make oxygen - and especially micro-oxygen - poison to it, but that's Toho.
Does anyone else listen to Kajagoogoo's "Too Shy" and think of "Save the Earth?"
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