Design your own Sci Fi weapon.

[chrispenycate]

My pistol's charger contains a lot of anaesthetised mosquitoids. They are programmed to search out and bite a particular genetic pattern; usually human, but not necessarily so. One obtains the genetic sample from hospital samples, brushing up against your prey, tonait clippings; unsympathetic magic is alive and well.
them microgram of antimatter contained in a crystal matrix in their gut is then freed, releasing enough energy to vaporise a large building.
Better to be somewhere else when the bloodsucker reaches its target.

[Thadlerian]

Originally Posted by ice.monkey

Time to pull out my Advanced Positioning System / Ballistics Computer Scrambler then.

You don't take a hint, do you?
My equipment is all protected by Faraday cages sensitive to scrambling attempts with adjustable mesh hole sizes which tune in to your scrambler's wavelengths, while communicating and observing through the remaining holes.

[PTeppic]

My alternative, which I'd forgotten about, was a belt-feed shotgun. It always felt daft only having a couple of barrels or a repeater.... since then I've found out about the USAS12 and its ilk...

[matt-browne-sfw]

I agree with chrispenycate. The ultimate sci-fi weapon is antimatter. The fiction part is producing it in larger quantities. Suppose a torpedo carries 1 ton of antimatter (the size of a very small car), then the released energy is almost 10^20 Joules (100 million Terajoule). I often wonder what kind of shield in the Star Trek universe would be able to withstand that...

[PTeppic]

That's "only" around 1200 times the power of the Nagasaki bomb, isn't it?

[white_wanderer]

I have an ultimate shield too - a spacial distortion that moves the damage to an empty area of space.

[chrispenycate]

Originally Posted by matt-browne-sfw

I agree with chrispenycate. The ultimate sci-fi weapon is antimatter. The fiction part is producing it in larger quantities. Suppose a torpedo carries 1 ton of antimatter (the size of a very small car), then the released energy is almost 10^20 Joules (100 million Terajoule). I often wonder what kind of shield in the Star Trek universe would be able to withstand that...

Yes, I needed some antimatter to power my interstellar spaceship, so I went down to my friends at CERN and asked about pricing and delivery; they estimated about fourty thousand years the gram, which, since I needed a kilo or so, was a bit too long a wait.
What's more it tends to go off (rather literally) with storage...

[Happy Joe]

On a more personal note;
How about a walking staff with a spring loaded spike hidden in one end and a spring loaded hook hidden in the other. Add in it laser based taser like (wireless) stun capability for ranged offense and a pilgrim would be pretty well set for a journey.
Staffs are a traditional effective defense against swords/blades, the spike would finalize encounters, the hook would be useful in climbing (a bit like an ice ax) or pulling down mounted opponents, and the stunner would be available to surprise firearm based opponents or packs of animals. ... it also helps ease the strain of walking in rough country.
Enjoy!

[The Engineer]

i Think mine would be a long sword that is light as a feather so its easy to swing that can be compacted into a nice small item ( maybe the size of a pocket knife) lol thts just off the top my head no thought really into it

[Lith]

Mine would be a pair of flower barretts that can reverse space and time locally, undoing any event I didn't like. (Yes, it'd take after a certain anime character.)

The weaponly potential is exceedingly great, and so small and unsuspecting and pretty!

[Ice fyre]

I would get you all with my bowl of petunas......

The deadly ninja kind.

[The Ace]

Originally Posted by Ice fyre

I would get you all with my bowl of petunas......

The deadly ninja kind.

"Oh no, not again !"

[Fake Vencar]

The BFG9000 from Doom. Wow!

[Dave]

I would quite like something that could rewind time about 5 to 10 minutes; just to clean up accidents, scew-ups and minor social mishaps. No serious temporal surgery involved, just Tipex for Life.

[pyan]

Something that when you fired and hit something with it, it just moved it one universe over.....