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Forum Name: Undocumented Features General
Topic ID: 131
Message ID: 3
#3, RE: The Reflex Cannon
Posted by Gryphon on Sep-28-01 at 03:31 PM
In response to message #0
>Though I havn't finished working my way through all of the UF stories
>yet, I noticed something odd. How come the Reflex Cannon was never
>mass produced as a standalone weapon?

Because Reflex furnaces represent an incredibly exotic, expensive technology which is understood by only a handful of engineers. The SDF-17 was so far ahead of its time that it would still be incredibly advanced at the time of the Symphony, if it still existed. There is precisely one place in the galaxy where a Reflex furnace can be fabricated and precisely one team of engineers who could then install, calibrate and operate it.

In 2405, there are five Reflex furnaces (four operational) in the UF universe, and no, I'm not going to tell you where they all are.

--G.
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