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Pyrotactick
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"has jook'd your shazbot."
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# Comments
Comments: 433
yeah I'm not really getting on that much. Sorry.
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And thanks for more faves, even faving the ugly cake!
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well it looked good and I was hungry. Staring at food on the internet makes me feel better.
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It doesn't for me. It makes me wish I could jump inside the screen and eat it all up, which of course I can't do.
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Lol maybe in the distant future when we can download and print out food.
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.....NICE!....I'm waiting for the distant future even more now...any second...
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damn dude totally. I want flying cars and plasma rifles!
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Flying cars are dangerous ._. imagine what could happen if everybody had a plane.
Plasma rifles are dangerous...but that's the point.
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And...it's possible that plasma weaponry can't even exist in real life because the plasma bolt would just dissipate several centimeters out from the muzzle of the gun, due to collisions with the air molecules and such.
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didn't know that.....what if you do it like an RPG, stuff it into a "grenade"?
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That could work. Well the thing is most plasma guns in sci-fi work by generating a magnetic "containment field" around the plasma, forming it into distinct "bolts" that travel to the target, then when they hit the target the containment field breaks, transferring the plasma to the target. That's one way. Another way is the "phased" plasma gun which uses a laser to cut a "channel" of ionized air through which the plasma can travel. Either way can probably be done, just not anytime soon with current technology.
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I agree that it can't be done anytime soon. I like the magnetic containment field idea.
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Yeah using a magnetic "bottle" containment field can apparently achieve some pretty interesting results. For instance the resulting "bolt" of plasma in the magnetic field can be made to not just travel in a straight line, but also home in on the target (provided the gun has a tracking computer-like device built into it,) travel in a downward arc like a mortar, move at any speed or velocity desired, or be pretty much made to be any shape needed, from elongated "bolt" to sphere to continuous stream to pulsed laser-like beam. Now granted, most of my knowledge of plasma weaponry comes from Halo, but that's probably the best we're going to get until someone actually invents a real-life plasma weapon.
Several plasma weapons appear in my fictional universe, and function in similar but different ways. The M6 PPG (phased-plasma gun) used by the United Systems Government sort of combines conventional and phased plasma technologies, by using a UV laser to superheat solid 5mm pellets of lithium flouride fuel into ionized plasma particle bolts, which are held together by a magnetic containment field until they hit the target, in typical plasma rifle fashion. The weapon is semi-automatic, has next to no recoil and causes MUCH more damage than a typical kinetic or energy-projectile weapon, due to the shots reaching temperatures upwards of 25,000 degrees centigrade (enough to vaporize a hole clean through most personal and vehicle armor, soldier included,) the only drawbacks being the second or two required to charge up and heat each round, and the relative bulkiness and extreme costliness of the weapon to manufacture.
But the plasma weapons used by the Safh'irim (a race of winged humanoid aliens who resemble angels) use compressed helium gas as ammunition and don't use a laser but still DO use a magnetic containment field, making them much more conventional plasma weapons. For some reason even though they'd be classified as directed energy weapons in other fictional universes, in my universe plasma weapons are classified as EPWs due to the fact that they fire kinetic bolts of superheated ionized matter, not energy or particle beams.
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Yeah mine mostly comes from Halo too.
Supper heated bullets? INGENIOUS, yet it's not semi-auto and the soldier has to charge the shots...how about this: shots are charged through the top of the clip, thus, when one bullet is shot, the other is ready to go, and if one is waiting in teh chamber, the other one is heated!
Hmm...I like the helium idea!
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Makes sense, it's a good game series ^^
Actually the way you suggested is rather similar to how the Xandu IX4 thermal penetrator gun works...the rounds are preheated in the magazine via electromagnetic induction heating, making them ready to be fired rapidly, though the firing process heats them even further, heating them into superheated bolts of metal particles. The plasma gun needs to charge up to prep each shot because it uses a pulsed laser to superheat each round into plasma, and that laser uses capacitors that need to build up an adequate charge beforehand. However, I guess I could make the capacitors "pulsed" somehow so that they can supply power to the laser system more rapidly, enabling the M6 to rapidly fire bolts of plasma.
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Yeah that'l be good for an SMG like gun. The semi auto's best as a marksman.
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And...I'm not sure any EPW would work that well as a sniper/marksman weapon, judging by how slow the projectiles move. They move about as fast as the plasma shots do in the Halo games, and there *are* semi-auto plasma guns in Halo (namely the plasma pistol) so I guess a semi-auto EPW would have some tactical appeal. Just they'd be horrendous as sniper weapons since the damn projectile glows brightly AND moves so slow, the target could easily see it coming and move out of the way.
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Hmm...maybe you could get a burst on it?
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Like a three-round burst? That sounds interesting, though most EPWs are still semi-auto due to the extreme amounts of electricity required by the firing process for each shot...the IX4 thermal guns and a handful of pulse weapons, namely the big pulse cannons mounted on fighter aircraft in my universe, however, are both capable of full-auto and burst fire. But most pulse guns (in my universe a "pulse" gun is a weapon that electromagnetically accelerates an explosive projectile encased in a plasma jacket) are semi-auto, including the custom PK5 unit carried by my OC, protagonist and alter-ego, Dash. However, as a general rule, fully-automatic EPWs fire weaker, less-damaging shots than do semi-auto EPWs...as semi-auto EP guns need to be more deadly and destructive per-shot in order to compete with fully-automatic weapons.
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Hmm....I guess it evens out the battlefield. You know what would be funny/badass? A EPW Peppermill! The cranking generates heat in the bullets as they're fired. Heres how it looks from Bioshock Infinite [link]
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A hand-cranked EP machine gun? That would be pretty funny, though the concept of an old-school hand-cranked machine gun in a futuristic sci-fi setting reminds me of the "mulcher" cranked machine gun from Gears of War. Gears is actually pretty silly in the sense that it has old-style weapons with a new futuristic sci-fi flavor, like bolt-action sniper rifles such as the Longshot and hand-cranked machine guns such as the Mulcher. But that corniness is also awesome. Actually Halo Reach was guilty of this a bit with the M319 single-shot, break-action grenade launcher, which actually confused a lot of fans considering nowadays even in present times we have multi-shot, semi-auto grenade launchers so why would we go back to using single-shot grenade launchers in the year 2552? Especially when we're up against deadly, futuristic aliens like the Covenant! It just doesn't make sense...
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Yeah the mulcher! That'll be great, I like the Peppermill better though.
Well sometimes you don't have a lot of space for a multi-shot GL....so you gotta downgrade.
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The Peppermill is from Bioshock, right? And no, I doubt anyone will be making hand-cranked EP weapons anytime soon, it's just not practical. Well one could argue that in real life the practicality of EPWs is very low as well when compared to conventional purely-kinetic projectile weapons, considering their painfully-slow projectiles one can dodge simply by ducking or stepping out of the way, and the energy projectiles' tendency to glow extremely brightly which could give away the shooter's position. Nope, I doubt in real war soldiers would be all that thrilled about EPWs, considering their two most glaring drawbacks. But in fiction they are supreme and magnificent weapons!
Yeah good point...the single-shot grenade launcher from Halo is much slimmer and more compact than present-day multi-shot grenade launchers such as the Milkor MGL, which are big, bulky and heavy. Plus if you've played Halo Reach you'll see how quickly Noble Six reloads the grenade launcher, which almost makes up for it being a single-shot weapon. In short, in the hands of a skilled, talented veteran soldier even a limited weapon such as a bolt-action rifle or break-action grenade launcher can be every bit as deadly as a semi or fully automatic weapon. At least that's how I see it.
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Yup! But consider the following: Cranking will look interesting, and it'll be like a machine gun so it'll give the shooters position anywway, plus if a barrage of glowing bullets was coming your way, wouldn't you be scared like hell?.
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Yeah I suppose the crank mechanism could also power a generator of some sort that energizes the energy projectiles before they are fired...hey, if the whole assembly is crank-driven then that might actually work pretty well! Not to mention that if it's only creating energy while you're turning the crank, that might make it not vulnerable to electronic attacks or EMP pulses. Probably one of the lesser-known drawbacks of an energy-projectile weapon would be the complexity of its components and the fact that it relies on advanced electrical circuitry to heat/energize and accelerate each round...potentially just one EMP could knock an entire EPW vehicle-based weapons system offline or disable EP small arms, rendering them inoperable. Thus the advantage of conventional guns is that they are entirely mechanical and thus unaffected by EMP bursts. And I didn't know machine guns could easily give away one's position...how does that work?
Oh yes! Energy projectiles may be slow, loud and give off brightly-colored light, but face it: If an average, present-day soldier, even a seasoned badass like a US Marine, was up against a Kyrdan or Xandu or any futuristic space marine from my universe carrying an EPW, and suddenly that futuristic warrior unloaded a bunch of glowing energy projectiles in the soldier's general direction, he'd probably piss himself with fear! Yeah both the Kyrdan and the Xandu have the war philosophy of "let's wear armor and use weapons that are designed to be so badass and intimidating that they scare the sh*t out of the enemy!" Actually the Samurai had a similar philosophy in how they designed their armor. However the Xandu are trained to never feel fear, but to instill terror into their enemies instead. The Kyrdan can also come pretty close to complete fearlessness, but unlike their Xandu enemies they are not fully immune to fear.
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Sounds good! Here's my idea for inoperable guns: jump starter, you take a piece of the gun off, find the appropriate circuits, and the little tool fixes it! It should be pocket sized and basically it'll reroute failed circuits.
I had an idea like that, but it went to smokes, I'll bring it back soon though.
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That IS a pretty good idea. So this handy little tool could fix downed energy-projectile guns?
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Thanks for all the glorious FAVES!!!
YESZ!!!
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you got it, you deserved it.
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Thanks for faving my two Master Chief photos!
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The Chief would've been proud...
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