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Forum Name: Undocumented Features General
Topic ID: 2207
Message ID: 33
#33, RE: Weapons Tech and the Home Hobbyist
Posted by Vehrec on Feb-02-14 at 09:26 PM
In response to message #6
>In re: "blastsmith", the term "plasmonger" came to mind for some
>reason, although strictly speaking that might be a different field of
>weapons? The idea comes to mind though of somehow taking a tap off a
>starship's plasma conduits and plugging that into a PPG. I imagine
>that immediately afterward someone would be having a Very Bad Day,
>although it would be debatable if the person in front or behind the
>PPG is going to be worse off.
>
>"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."


Now THIS reminds me of the fanfic Hull 721, where the Imperial Star Destroyer Black Princes' Port 4 turret commander gets dissatisfied with the level of BOOM in his standard issue sidearm and pesters the Chief Engineer into making something...custom.

It winds up being a distruptor pistol built to the same design standards and energy tolerances as a capital ship turbolaser, just scaled down to something that can fit in the palm of your hand-and blow out the side of a restaurant when you squeeze off one of the extremely limited number of shots it has. Rather like the dismounted X-wing cannon that the Wraiths used to board their Corvette in the amount of firepower it offers. But you only get one to three shots, and it's insanely illegal. After all, a handgun with one shot that can vaporize an entire government if they bunch up is kinda an ideal assassin's weapon.