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Forum Name: Undocumented Features General
Topic ID: 131
Message ID: 19
#19, RE: The Reflex Cannon
Posted by Gryphon on Oct-01-01 at 02:09 AM
In response to message #18
>>GENOM has never had them; GENOM doesn't have access to overtechnology
>>(the exotic tech base which Reflex power is the cornerstone of).
>
>Didn't Largo make a comment about dumping reflex tech due to it's
>finiky nature somewhere in UF4?

No; what GENOM abandoned was fold drive. GENOM's fold-core technology involved some extremely unstable and dangerous fuel compounds which were responsible for the fact that almost all of Musashi became uninhabitable after Executioner crashed there.

The reason they had to develop their own version of fold drive that used such compounds was because they didn't have access to overtechnology. You don't need a Reflex furnace to power an overtech fold drive, but GENOM had neither.

--G.
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