Major Image for Uber Direct Damage?

[Endarire]

Major image acts as silent image but also allows "thermal illusions."  Since nuclear energy is a force and silent image can mimic forces, use this to make a very hot, very painful tactical nuke.

A clause for the 
[Figment] descriptor says, "{Figments] cannot cause damage to objects or creatures," but I was hoping for a way around this.  How can this fake nuke become a damaging nuke?

[Prime32]

Major image acts as silent image but also allows "thermal illusions."  Since nuclear energy is a force and silent image can mimic forces, use this to make a very hot, very painful tactical nuke.

A clause for the 
[Figment] descriptor says, "{Figments] cannot cause damage to objects or creatures," but I was hoping for a way around this.  How can this fake nuke become a damaging nuke?

Have a shadowcraft mage use the spell to duplicate locate city?

[JaronK]

Shadowcraft Mages are indeed the class to do this sort of thing with.  Use Earth Spell, Arcane Thesis, and Residual Metamagic for pure awesomeness.

JaronK

[Endarire]

What's a build to make the major image nuke?

[JaronK]

Generally you'd use Silent Image because it's lower level and thus better for the job.  But a very simple build would be Gnome Illusionist 10/Shadowcraft Mage 5/Earth Dreamer 5 with two flaws, taking Spell Focus: Illusion, Heighten Spell, Earth Sense, Earth Spell, Echoing Spell, Arcane Thesis: Silent Image, Residual Metamagic, and any other metamagic feats you think would be fun (Twin Spell would make sense).  Get into SCM as fast as you can (Earth Spell gets you in earlier than normal) and take all the various gnome substitutions.

JaronK

[Negative Zero]

This doesn't work any more than creating a Tarrasque with silent image and making that real, I'm afraid.

[KellKheraptis]

This doesn't work any more than creating a Tarrasque with silent image and making that real, I'm afraid.

It works better if you've optimized your %'s, actually.  Remember, you're not making an illusion real, you're mimicking something with shadowstuff!