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Change in Napther's Weight! and other things...
10 years ago
...Rather small topic, but, Napther shall be nearly doubling in weight to 28 tons as I fudged around with Maths and Aligators at 50ft long... anyway. a 50ft aligator was the baseline weight especially with the tail,etc.
Napther is VERY dense due to his plates. 1 cubic metre of Steel weighs about 8 tons there abouts, However due to Napther mostly existing in a fantasy setting with Reality mirror options, Its likely his plates are Myth-Metals like Orichalcum and Adamantite - or even a Bio-Alloy of the few. These plates were not factored too highly into his 15 ton statistic at all.
...In a more hard-science world, it would be a steel bio-structure of some sort. Its likely Napther would also be smaller to reduce the weight on his bones - but this would only be for hard-physics only... His wings are vestigual and cannot carry weight either. A real flying dragon can only be the size of a large dog according to
ijzer, so this results in Napther's wings being used as radiators for sunning, etc.
Also, as we all know, Napther's rather overweight. In fact, at his current size he carries 5 cubic metres of pudge, which is 5 tons assuming its 1000kg/m^3 for derg pudge.
Napther is VERY dense due to his plates. 1 cubic metre of Steel weighs about 8 tons there abouts, However due to Napther mostly existing in a fantasy setting with Reality mirror options, Its likely his plates are Myth-Metals like Orichalcum and Adamantite - or even a Bio-Alloy of the few. These plates were not factored too highly into his 15 ton statistic at all.
...In a more hard-science world, it would be a steel bio-structure of some sort. Its likely Napther would also be smaller to reduce the weight on his bones - but this would only be for hard-physics only... His wings are vestigual and cannot carry weight either. A real flying dragon can only be the size of a large dog according to
ijzer, so this results in Napther's wings being used as radiators for sunning, etc.Also, as we all know, Napther's rather overweight. In fact, at his current size he carries 5 cubic metres of pudge, which is 5 tons assuming its 1000kg/m^3 for derg pudge.
As for the plating, instead of steel, you could consider a "bio-alloy" based on a titanium alloy or maybe even a ceramic: For example, Grade 5 Titanium is 4430 kg/m^3, while Alumina is 3690 kg/m^3
But yes, very heavy beastie, I figured that the Dragon-lightness aspects were just wiped away by Napther's plates and pudge. I reckon a smooth-scale dragon would weigh between 17-20 tons
Out of curiosity, how did you get the 5m^3 figure for the blubber?
http://puu.sh/g6J0q/a7763b51b7.jpg Roughly what I figured for his pudge, heh.
2 and a bit on his belly/body, 1 between neck and back area, 1 between lims, and about 1 elsewhere and tail...