Nathanael_Greene
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The SHAKK from John Barnes's Timeline series. 2000 rounds, fully automatic, effective to several miles, seeks targets automatically, can be reloaded from junk, destroys buildings and people with equal effectiveness.
Favorite fictional or sci-fi weapon?
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Kestryll
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As long as it comes with the Unicorn costume and the watch!
ssteven1
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I second the SHAKK. Reload froms anything If you shoot it at a person it zeros in on the head and goes round and round until the head turns into goo. Also handy for making weapon grape plutonium. (ore goes in plutonium come out)
In Ian M Banks' 'Consider Phlebas' the Culture agent has a handgun that mostly exists in another dimension (or something like that) and is only visible when she is about to use it. How's that for a CCW?
Takes Harry Harrison's 'Deathworld' wrist holster to another plane of existence, so to speak.
Takes Harry Harrison's 'Deathworld' wrist holster to another plane of existence, so to speak.
enichols
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TimberWolf/Mad Cat omnimech from Battletech.
Zf1
M41A? What about Drake and Vasquez's toys?
Defense lasers from Warhammer40K in epic scale.
PPC, ER PPC, and the clan variants of these from Battletech.
The little shoulder cannon the predator had.
Distortion cannons from Warhammer40K.
Lightsaber, make mine bright orange.
And the sentry mech thingers from Revolutions. Only seem them in the trailers but they look to be the epitome of rock and roll with tracers.
M41A? What about Drake and Vasquez's toys?
Defense lasers from Warhammer40K in epic scale.
PPC, ER PPC, and the clan variants of these from Battletech.
The little shoulder cannon the predator had.
Distortion cannons from Warhammer40K.
Lightsaber, make mine bright orange.
And the sentry mech thingers from Revolutions. Only seem them in the trailers but they look to be the epitome of rock and roll with tracers.
kenehsr
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The gun that Van Diesel uses in XXX.
Also the gun in judge dreed. I dont know theres something about a gun that can talk or that you use voice commands with.
Also the gun in judge dreed. I dont know theres something about a gun that can talk or that you use voice commands with.
Schuey2002
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Oh, and whatever uber- weapon makes its debut in this..
weapon makes its debut in this..
Moparmike
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Umm. Offend doesnt begin to describe it. More like nauseate. Its like saying a Bryco is better than a Kimber Custom with all the bells, whistles, and kitchen sinks that one could apply to it. Babble-on-and-on-and-on-and-on 5 sucks.
Ok, now that I got that out of my system....I still say that having my own customizable TX would be the best.
Nightcrawler
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Well, we understand that having a linear storyline might be a bit too much for Trekkies who are used to one-hour or, at most, two hour adventures that wrap themselves up neatly before the credits roll.
Moparmike
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Umm. Yeah. You obviously have never seen the last 3 seasons of DS9 have you? Save for about 6(the really fun ones, like the alt. universe or Quark traveling back to Roswell-1947) episodes, it was completely linear.
Babble-on is more like a soap opera, which is probably why I find it so damned boring and psychologically straining.
Now that we have had our little spat, lets get back on topic, shall we?
Lightsabre? Oh puhl-ese. There is no jedi mind trick that will let you doge a transporter beam. Or a grenade, for that matter.
Big O is something different...just need to figure out the n-dimensional engineering required to build a mega-deuce.
Big O is something different...just need to figure out the n-dimensional engineering required to build a mega-deuce.
mgjohn
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The starship Andromeda and Rommie.
The aliens pistol from "I come in Peace"
The robot from Lost in Space (TV series)
The computer asteriod Obie from the Well World series by Chalker.
The aliens pistol from "I come in Peace"
The robot from Lost in Space (TV series)
The computer asteriod Obie from the Well World series by Chalker.
280PLUS
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the revolver that the detective took,,,
into toon town,,,
you know, the one with the cartoon bullets
too bad they were "dum-dums" though,,,
into toon town,,,
you know, the one with the cartoon bullets
too bad they were "dum-dums" though,,,
Andrew Wyatt
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correia:big o wasn't that useful. no ranged weapons.
the ACS's from legacy of aldenata would blow that out of the water.
the ACS's from legacy of aldenata would blow that out of the water.
powderific
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How about something from AE Van Vogt's Wepons Shop series?
Nightcrawler
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What are you talking about? Big O had plenty of ranged weapons! A beam weapon in its forehead, missiles in the chest, those rocket-propelled chain-thingies, machine guns in the hands...
(You see a lot of this in Season 2, which was great, except the end didn't make any sense.)
Hmm, looks like those molecular edged knives in the Sten series are just around the corner. 3 nanometer radius edge.
http://popularmechanics.com/science/extreme_machines/2003/10/knives/print.phtml
http://popularmechanics.com/science/extreme_machines/2003/10/knives/print.phtml
Andrew Wyatt
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I never really got into big o. I'm more of a Cowboybeebop kinda guy.
How are bolos used in combat? it seems like city-sized tanks would be hard to use effectively.
How are bolos used in combat? it seems like city-sized tanks would be hard to use effectively.
It is hard to describe. But I suggest you read some of the Bolo books. Let us just say that Bolo's kick incomprehnsible amounts of butt. They may weigh millons on tons, but they are quick, smart, tough, and are bristling with every weapon you can think of.
Bolo's are not so much tanks in a tactical sense. They might be better coinsidered a mobile strategic combat platform. Like Ogres, they are intended to operate in multiple enviroments--subsurface, pre- and post-nuclear, etc.--and engage threats from a variety of sources, with the processing power to examine an object outside it's database, give it a friend-or-foe classification and respond accordingly.
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