Design your own Sci Fi weapon.

[fantasy noob]

i would have a simple poly-carbon recurve bow with all the normal arrow heads ie. poison, acid, heatseekingexplosives and of course the ever so common spacial distortion arrowhead. it could fold down to the size of a pen, it has an energy string so no worring about getting tangled up it also has detacheable twin shortswords for the really sticky situations. . . oh ya i forgot its really shiny like blindingly shiny

[Doug Graves]

A big metal sphere that changes into a cube and then back into a sphere thus confusing my opponent into unconsciousness. Now THAT'S science fiction.

[Sassee]

Sci-fi weapon, eh? <rubs chin>

Fingernail polish that, when applied, hardens and lengthens your fingernails into razor sharp claws. Good for 24 hours or until you take it off with nail polish remover.

How's that for a bit of girly ingenuity?

[Lith]

I LIKE it!:evilgrin:

And having given it further thought, I'd like to sharpen the edges of my flower barrettes so I can throw them like ninja stars. They'd return automatically of course, not like a boomerang (since that would be rather painful), but they'd have spatial memory and re-materialize where I left them. Or wanted them.

[matt-browne-sfw]

Originally Posted by chrispenycate

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...

Oh, that's interesting. Last time I checked CERN's online shop you needed to order at least 100 grams to be elgible for their free super saver shipping. But they could give me a delivery date. So it's not a good idea, well, if you're looking for Christmas presents. Anyway, Fermilab is just a mouse click away...

[hlywkar]

A vast assortment of cigarettes. Some to blow up and do a cartoon peal back in their face. Some to knock them out. Some an a aphrodisiac. Laughing ones... And lots others...

Oh. and trained hamster bombers. Intelligence boosted via a special brain boosting ray, and have them trained to fly mini planes. Sure, the ammo might not be that dangerous. But it would be damn annoying, and funny!

[Steve Jordan]

For one of my stories, I designed a collar that tapped into brainwaves through the spinal column and created force-fields controlled by the mind. It was like technologically-created telekinesis. Because it generated mentally-shaped fields, anything from staffs and swords to personal shields, and could even help the user jump and fly for short distances, it made for a great offensive and defensive weapon.

[RVM45]

.....Imagine that you could create a miniture universe, and slave it to your brain waves so it would accompany you everywhere that you went.

.....Let us further suppose that You could fire tens of thousands of high-powered rifle bullets into your mini universe, where they'd stay in a holding pattern, neither gaining nor losing velocity indefinately.

.....When you need firepower, simply point your finger, and give a mental command. Your high-power bullets come screaming out of your tiny universe at an extreamly high rate of fire; no recoil; no muzzle blast; and a virtually inexhaustable capacity.

.....You could get fancy- little finger point gets you a stream of sub-sonic .22 bullets. Ring finger fires .50 Browning Machine gun; Middle finger fires a steady stream of LAW Rockets- even though the LAW is comparatively feeble on modern armor; a steady stream of them at about 3600 Rounds per minute woulnd tend to wash armor away- like a firehose hitting Ice Cream. Hook the index fingers to .30 Caliber bullets- say .308. Hook your thumb up to whatever sounds good to you.

.....In a really bad situation, extend all your fingers and fire everything at once.

.....Even so, someone just might come up behind you; or something.

.....Having a hail of ten Gauge loads ready to fly out from certain parts of your anatomy on command, would certainly rape-proof any man or woman.

.....Real high speed .410 loads from the mouth might also come in handy.

.....Understand, the .30 caliber bullet doesn't actually come out of your finger- your dimensional portal simply opens a couple inches in front of the finger tip- co-axial to the last phlange bone.

.....Don't think that I'd ever use it in a story. It either takes way too much exposition- or it comes across as magic.

.....RVM45

[The Ace]

Stop an ant-matter weapon, easy, just blast a cloud of fine sand. It's still matter, but the antimatter charge expends itself on a few grains of sand rather than the target. It also stops laser beams if it's dense enough.

[Montero]

Slightly off topic - sand triggered a memory of a fantasy I read once, think it was Barbara Hambly but not sure - the defenders in a castle heated sand red hot, then catapulted it off the castle walls at the attackers. The idea was that red hot sand got inside their armour. Not quite sure if that would work, not sure of the rate of cooling of the grains of sand, whether it would still be red hot when it arrived.


Other than that, I want a charm offensive weapon. Something you let off and everyone loves you far too much to want to kill you.
(Love in a pure and protective way, definitely not lust. )