Not an answer, and not what I said. But you just carry on making irrelevant claims based on bad logic.
And "head canon" is gibberish.
making future personal defense weapons
- Thread starter XCV330
- Start date
Not an answer, and not what I said. But you just carry on making irrelevant claims based on bad logic.
And "head canon" is gibberish.
It is a answer, but you don't want to debate it.
That's fine, different strokes for different folks.
Wow, you must be real fun at parties.
Nah, Cybernetically mountable Bear Arms are superior.Just the arms looks kind of dumb.
Surely you'd want the whole bear costume.
Gives you Part Bear, Part Cyborg arms that you can wear like sleeves.
If I can't wield Tsar Bomba-yield nuclear devices to keep my loved ones safe and get some publicity then I want no part of a world with particle weapons and beam emitters.
It's not an interpretation at all. You can only have a "natural right" to something that exists naturally. Since the weapons that are being discussed in this thread are manufactured rather than existing naturally, one can not have a "natural" right to them.
You appear to be claiming that one should have an unquestioned right to these weapons, and that's a debate I'm not really interested in getting into right now, but whether or not one has a right to these weapons, they can never have a "natural" right to them. Common sense.
All that being said, regular citizens having their own photon torpedoes for "personal defense" does seem like overkill. Exactly what sort of situation is an ordinary citizen going to get into that they would even need a photon torpedo?
You try hunting gormaganders with a Daisy Red Ryder. when it's First Contact Day, and everyone has already gobbled up the First Contact Day Salmon and the kids cry out for vacuum-cooked gormagander, are YOU going to let them down?
Look at Rios & his personal "Fast Transport" StarShip 'La Sirena'.
He goes into potentially hostile situations and needs to protect himself and he got into a fire fight with enemy pirates / raiders in space in ST:Picard Season 1 early on.
He sure could've used Photon Torpedoes in that battle.
Whether or not Rios had Photon Torpedoes and was saving them for later or didn't think he needed it is up to Captain Rio's decision.
Last edited:
Box-Loaded Anti-personnel Area-denial Kinetic-energy Sabot UraNium-Depleted ArtillarY (BLAAK SUNDAY) Device:
Carried on a tracked armored vehicle like the M270 MLRS or on a more conventional military tractor-trailer truck for urban warfare deployment, this consists of a ~six meter wide box filled with a thousand 5mm ultra-dense depleted uranium light armor piercing flechettes with pop-out stabilizing fins mounted inside their own slightly adjustable firing tubes. Each box with a thousand rounds is back-plated by a shaped charged layer of C4 plastic explosives and detonator caps (more advanced models may be electrically fired), and behind that is a thick layer of discardable composite armor to protect the next layer of 1,000 flechettes, and so on going back up to ten salvos.
Unlike other armored vehicle artillery, this is not a long-range weapon, but is specifically a short-range line-of-sight area-denial anti-personnel weapon designed to killed a massed crowd or enemy formation threatening a fixed position.
After the user identifies the kill box by marking it with a rectangular targeting box on the included touch screen, the onboard computer ties in with the vehicle's multi-spectral sensors (IR / LIDAR / RADAR, etc.) and subdivides the kill box into smaller zones which contain bio-signatures most likely corresponding to human-sized targets. It assigns an equal number of flechettes to each recognized target and adjusts the firing tubes in each salvo accordingly to point at each target.
The explosive shaped charge then goes off and a thousand tiny fin-stabilized darts head downrange at hypersonic speeds with a horrendous wail and take out every target in the kill box with dozens of individual flechettes each. Body armor and light vehicle armor is defeated by the enormous speed and density of the rounds, all striking on a single ultra-sharp point.
This weapon would no doubt by immediately outlawed by those pussies with their Geneva Convention, which is why we are reselling this as the perfect Father's Day gift in 'Murican home defense. Granted, it's about the size of a house itself, but no Karens or Chads from the Home Owner's Association are going to fuck with you when you're sporting a semi with this in your driveway; double entendre intended. Order now, and get a free pair of Truck Nutz to mount on the back!
* See what I did there? Waka! Waka! (Fozzie is all about the natural right to bear arms).
(Because evil weapons --sorry, I mean "friendly multi-purpose tools which have no evil purpose beyond what is imbued by its user, and which is anyone's natural right to own no matter how dangerous"; we don't want to set-off any easily triggered* people with firearms by committing friendly fire with the wrong joking word after all-- need a clunky initialism first and foremost)
Carried on a tracked armored vehicle like the M270 MLRS or on a more conventional military tractor-trailer truck for urban warfare deployment, this consists of a ~six meter wide box filled with a thousand 5mm ultra-dense depleted uranium light armor piercing flechettes with pop-out stabilizing fins mounted inside their own slightly adjustable firing tubes. Each box with a thousand rounds is back-plated by a shaped charged layer of C4 plastic explosives and detonator caps (more advanced models may be electrically fired), and behind that is a thick layer of discardable composite armor to protect the next layer of 1,000 flechettes, and so on going back up to ten salvos.
Unlike other armored vehicle artillery, this is not a long-range weapon, but is specifically a short-range line-of-sight area-denial anti-personnel weapon designed to killed a massed crowd or enemy formation threatening a fixed position.
After the user identifies the kill box by marking it with a rectangular targeting box on the included touch screen, the onboard computer ties in with the vehicle's multi-spectral sensors (IR / LIDAR / RADAR, etc.) and subdivides the kill box into smaller zones which contain bio-signatures most likely corresponding to human-sized targets. It assigns an equal number of flechettes to each recognized target and adjusts the firing tubes in each salvo accordingly to point at each target.
The explosive shaped charge then goes off and a thousand tiny fin-stabilized darts head downrange at hypersonic speeds with a horrendous wail and take out every target in the kill box with dozens of individual flechettes each. Body armor and light vehicle armor is defeated by the enormous speed and density of the rounds, all striking on a single ultra-sharp point.
This weapon would no doubt by immediately outlawed by those pussies with their Geneva Convention, which is why we are reselling this as the perfect Father's Day gift in 'Murican home defense. Granted, it's about the size of a house itself, but no Karens or Chads from the Home Owner's Association are going to fuck with you when you're sporting a semi with this in your driveway; double entendre intended. Order now, and get a free pair of Truck Nutz to mount on the back!
* See what I did there? Waka! Waka! (Fozzie is all about the natural right to bear arms).
Last edited:
When developing more futuristic weapons for my own writings my basic idea is one that can disable without killing an assailant. So, I've leaned more towards either electrical based weapons that don't need cords, or a more graviton based weapon that can repel boarders literally. My goal is to take the relative simplicity of modern firearms, use that as a basic framework, and create a different power sources to generate either an electrical arc or a compressed push wave to knock assailants down.
If not that, then sound.
If not that, then sound.
I do like the idea of having the assailants pushed down. It both prevents them from attacking and provides hilarious replay reels once peace is achieved.
my next personal future defense weapon:
The Frozone Gun
Double barrelled railgun launches in a two stage timed event. The weapon resembles an over-under double barrel shotgun. The first barrel launches a crystaline vial of liquid hydrogen. It nearly instantly freezes anything it achieves contact with, skin, metal, plastic. The second barrel fires within a second, firing a concussion grenade in the same area, shattering, hopefully, the matter frozen by the first impact.
This is impractical, requires extreme difficulty in handling the liquid hydrogen and has no other benefit except being unpleasant.
my next personal future defense weapon:
The Frozone Gun
Double barrelled railgun launches in a two stage timed event. The weapon resembles an over-under double barrel shotgun. The first barrel launches a crystaline vial of liquid hydrogen. It nearly instantly freezes anything it achieves contact with, skin, metal, plastic. The second barrel fires within a second, firing a concussion grenade in the same area, shattering, hopefully, the matter frozen by the first impact.
This is impractical, requires extreme difficulty in handling the liquid hydrogen and has no other benefit except being unpleasant.
Or Super Soaker with a Stun Gun Rod at the end to transmit Electricity through the water onto the person.
If you're just sadistic, go to the Mirror Universe, steal the tech & blue prints behind the Agony Booth.
And turn the Agony Booth into Flash Light with a power pack & wires attached.
Not exactly affordable or portable. Incredibly complicated & needs way too much tech to operate.
The Maintainence makes it impractical for anybody without deep pockets.
Last edited:
Yes. Yes, I would.
My nudity is enough to trigger temporary blindness in a potential attacker with insanity a possible side effect from the brief eye contact with my pale flesh. I'll manage. I'll be the most effective weapon around.
I'd say you must be a blast at parties, but I'm afraid you would take that as a serious suggestion as well.
The only real self-defense is the ones we made along the way.
Weapons Designs are serious business!
Screw "personal defense weapons", by the time frames of Star Trek I'd want personal defense shields. They had them by TAS, but seem to have misplaced them until Star trek Online and other video games.
Last edited:
