Favorite fictional or sci-fi weapon?
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Billll
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Oh yeah, The moon mens "Scroonch Guns" from Rocky and Bullwinkle.
hoppinglark
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there was a gun in the low budget sci-Fi direct to home video series "Trancers" that shot Silicon or carbon bullets, made from anything you put into it. you just had to pick up things from your environment, in the desert-use sand, in the woods-use twigs and rocks, "just shove it up your butt" is what Jack Deth was told when issued this wonderous gun! He also got the "long second watch" the would speed him up so that, he would experience one second has 10, (you can run pretty far in 10 seconds!!)
and I already have my Lightsaber
and I already have my Lightsaber
Orthonym
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OEF_VET, I always thought Marvin the Martian was way cool, i.e.
"I'm getting very angry!" (Spoken in adenoidal nerdy tone)
What I'm working up to writing about is, of course, the best SF (eff Sci-Fi, movies and TV) weapon ever invented,
The ACME disintegrating pistol!
Don't laugh, people! Thinking of that has caused me to be extra careful, when reloading cartridges, to avoid double charges and suchlike oopsies.
"I'm getting very angry!" (Spoken in adenoidal nerdy tone)
What I'm working up to writing about is, of course, the best SF (eff Sci-Fi, movies and TV) weapon ever invented,
The ACME disintegrating pistol!
Don't laugh, people! Thinking of that has caused me to be extra careful, when reloading cartridges, to avoid double charges and suchlike oopsies.
Orthonym
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personal attack removed
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Sorry, Oleg, and all other folks here, but I think it's perfectly OK to make fun of that terminally stupid (spaceships making noise in vacuum) Star Wars movie(s) and all of its fans, when one of the most major, maximally coolest, seminally influential, erudite, heroic (proved in war) good example and natural gentlemen, not to mention one of the 4 or 5 best SF writers who ever lived, has just died.
I am writing about Col. Harry C. Stubbs, USAAF Ret., aka Hal Clement.
personal attack removed
Sorry, Oleg, and all other folks here, but I think it's perfectly OK to make fun of that terminally stupid (spaceships making noise in vacuum) Star Wars movie(s) and all of its fans, when one of the most major, maximally coolest, seminally influential, erudite, heroic (proved in war) good example and natural gentlemen, not to mention one of the 4 or 5 best SF writers who ever lived, has just died.
I am writing about Col. Harry C. Stubbs, USAAF Ret., aka Hal Clement.
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lee n. field
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Webley Electric. Handgun, 100 or so 17 caliber steel needles in a magazine, electromagnetic induction. Selector switch for single shot, 3 round burst or full auto. ZZZZaaap! L. Neil Smith's _Probability Broach_ universe.
Sedrich Fireclaw's sword Murderer. Nothing special, your basic claymore, modified to fit a prosthetic socket. What's special is the man behind it.
The powered warLART Cluebringer.
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George Hill
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No one has mentioned the double ended lazer blasters from "THE BLACKHOLE".
Weapon has a gun on both ends of the grip... it was pretty cool.
Weapon has a gun on both ends of the grip... it was pretty cool.
Stevie-Ray
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I want one of those BFGs the intergalactic exterminators used in Critters.
Deadman
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Not sure if anyone mentioned this yet, but I'd take the Predators' shoulder mounted 'Plasma-caster' (or what ever cheap name they use for it).
And one of the Games Workshop Warhammer40K Bolt pistols. Full auto pistol which fires armour piercing, explosive tip rounds. One in each hand of course.
And one of the Games Workshop Warhammer40K Bolt pistols. Full auto pistol which fires armour piercing, explosive tip rounds. One in each hand of course.
wintermute76
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#1 Mercury Bow from Oni (PS2) fired a frozen mercury spike
#2 .223/12mm over under submachine gun from Red Faction (also on PS2) looks like an MP5
#3 Plasma rifle from Iain M. Banks' "Use of Weapons" an antique museum piece, but Zakalwe likes how it's balanced
#4 a Culture GSV (general systems vehicle) "Iain M Banks describes his Culture ships as follows:
Culture starships - that is all classes of ship above inter-planetary - are sentient; their Minds (sophisticated AIs working largely in hyperspace to take advantage of the higher lightspeed there) bear the same relation to the fabric of the ship as a human brain does to the human body; the Mind is the important bit, and the rest is a life-support and transport system. Humans and independent drones (the Culture's non-android individual AIs of roughly human-equivalent intelligence) are unnecessary for the running of the starships, and have a status somewhere between passengers, pets and parasites.
The Culture's largest vessels - apart from certain art-works and a few Eccentrics - are the General Systems Vehicles of the Contact section. (Contact is the part of the Culture concerned with discovering, cataloguing, investigating, evaluating and - if thought prudent - interacting with other civilisations; its rationale and activities are covered elsewhere, in the stories.) The GSVs are fast and very large craft, measured in kilometres and inhabited by millions of people and machines. The idea behind them is that they represent the Culture, fully. All that the Culture knows, each GSV knows; anything that can be done anywhere in the Culture can be done within or by any GSV. In terms of both information and technology, they represent a last resort, and act like holographic fragments of the Culture itself, the whole contained within each part.
#2 .223/12mm over under submachine gun from Red Faction (also on PS2) looks like an MP5
#3 Plasma rifle from Iain M. Banks' "Use of Weapons" an antique museum piece, but Zakalwe likes how it's balanced
#4 a Culture GSV (general systems vehicle) "Iain M Banks describes his Culture ships as follows:
Culture starships - that is all classes of ship above inter-planetary - are sentient; their Minds (sophisticated AIs working largely in hyperspace to take advantage of the higher lightspeed there) bear the same relation to the fabric of the ship as a human brain does to the human body; the Mind is the important bit, and the rest is a life-support and transport system. Humans and independent drones (the Culture's non-android individual AIs of roughly human-equivalent intelligence) are unnecessary for the running of the starships, and have a status somewhere between passengers, pets and parasites.
The Culture's largest vessels - apart from certain art-works and a few Eccentrics - are the General Systems Vehicles of the Contact section. (Contact is the part of the Culture concerned with discovering, cataloguing, investigating, evaluating and - if thought prudent - interacting with other civilisations; its rationale and activities are covered elsewhere, in the stories.) The GSVs are fast and very large craft, measured in kilometres and inhabited by millions of people and machines. The idea behind them is that they represent the Culture, fully. All that the Culture knows, each GSV knows; anything that can be done anywhere in the Culture can be done within or by any GSV. In terms of both information and technology, they represent a last resort, and act like holographic fragments of the Culture itself, the whole contained within each part.
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I'd prefer one of those "Pulser Pistols", which are the standard weapons of the armed forces in the "Honor Harrison"-Universe, created by the excellent writer David Weber.
Those are guns that fire 3mm-darts at hyper-velocities (8000fps+), propelled by so-called "grav-drivers" (directed pulses of artificial gravity).
One good torso hit and you're mince meat!
Those are guns that fire 3mm-darts at hyper-velocities (8000fps+), propelled by so-called "grav-drivers" (directed pulses of artificial gravity).
One good torso hit and you're mince meat!
RE: Personal Shield Belts from "Dune"
"I don't care that it attracts giant Sand Worms"
They also have this really unfortunate side effect when they get hit by lasers. (For the uninitiated, there are some intresting harmonics, and the shield go off in a nuclear explosion. Potentially embarassing.)
"I don't care that it attracts giant Sand Worms"
They also have this really unfortunate side effect when they get hit by lasers. (For the uninitiated, there are some intresting harmonics, and the shield go off in a nuclear explosion. Potentially embarassing.)
denfoote
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My favorite:
A P.O.'d Klingon with a Batlev and a hand phasor!!
A P.O.'d Klingon with a Batlev and a hand phasor!!
SnWnMe
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Those rifles that every trooper in the 80s cartoons GI Joe carried. They were taking out tanks and jet planes with em. Always made me wonder why they even bothered building tanks and planes vice more rifles.
Dionysusigma
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Aliens and Starship Troopers pulse rifle.
Terminator phased plasma rifle.
Star Trek 1-6 phasers (TNGs are so... poor in the ergonomics dept).
Dune SoundAmp Module thingy.
Return to Castle Wolfenstein Snooper rifle, Tesla cannon, and chaingun
Star Wars Light Saber (make mine red )
Blood 2: The Chosen Life Leech and Orb
Terminator phased plasma rifle.
Star Trek 1-6 phasers (TNGs are so... poor in the ergonomics dept).
Dune SoundAmp Module thingy.
Return to Castle Wolfenstein Snooper rifle, Tesla cannon, and chaingun
Star Wars Light Saber (make mine red
)Blood 2: The Chosen Life Leech and Orb
Kestryll
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Gundam Wing Zero
For daily carry, Green Lantern's Power Ring.
For daily carry, Green Lantern's Power Ring.
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