Sidebar: Pre-OGJ Weaponry
"Shit! That's live ammo!"
Skuld looked at Noah in surprise. "What did you think someone would attack us with?"
"Something like this," answered Katz as he tossed a grenade into the air. The grenade went off with a phrase of melody and the Japanese lyric "," and suddenly there was a cloud of large metallic-gold fluff balls between the two groups.
The gunmen weren't fazed.
"Nice pompom round," Noah commented from below the hail of lead, "but that's better against beams than bullets."
- from chapter 3 of Legend of Galactic Girls
Before Operation Great Justice, Fenspace was a kinder, gentler place to live. Many "weapons of mass amusement" were developed by the Professor and other scientific types, and were happily adopted by Fenspace's less-than-serious majority. These weapons could be divided into three broad classes: non-lethal melee weapons, grenades, and firearm projectiles.
Melee weapons could be found in all of the styles endorsed by the SCA.
Grenades provide cover by creating clouds of otherwise-ordinary items. Known examples include the pompom grenade (described above, not to be confused with a pom-pom gun round) and the pantsu grenades (popular when one needs to distract members of the Happosai Brigade). Katz Schrödinger has been known to use these grenades even in real combat.
Firearm projectiles tended to use Snurf-tech - they would hinder a target's movement by encasing him in a quick-setting foam-rubber-like substance. The substance is a solid when in the firearm, only becoming liquid for timespans measured on the Plank scale after being fired, when making contact with a solid or semi-solid substance. Human skin is sufficiently solid for the projectile to undergo the temporary transformation. Obviously, larger caliber rounds were more effective as restraints. (Nobody's sure why the Professor used the name "Snurf-tech" for this effect. It isn't as if he cared about trademarks any other time...)
(And that quote counts as the teaser I was going to post later this month, too...)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
"Shit! That's live ammo!"
Skuld looked at Noah in surprise. "What did you think someone would attack us with?"
"Something like this," answered Katz as he tossed a grenade into the air. The grenade went off with a phrase of melody and the Japanese lyric "," and suddenly there was a cloud of large metallic-gold fluff balls between the two groups.
The gunmen weren't fazed.
"Nice pompom round," Noah commented from below the hail of lead, "but that's better against beams than bullets."
- from chapter 3 of Legend of Galactic Girls
Before Operation Great Justice, Fenspace was a kinder, gentler place to live. Many "weapons of mass amusement" were developed by the Professor and other scientific types, and were happily adopted by Fenspace's less-than-serious majority. These weapons could be divided into three broad classes: non-lethal melee weapons, grenades, and firearm projectiles.
Melee weapons could be found in all of the styles endorsed by the SCA.
Grenades provide cover by creating clouds of otherwise-ordinary items. Known examples include the pompom grenade (described above, not to be confused with a pom-pom gun round) and the pantsu grenades (popular when one needs to distract members of the Happosai Brigade). Katz Schrödinger has been known to use these grenades even in real combat.
Firearm projectiles tended to use Snurf-tech - they would hinder a target's movement by encasing him in a quick-setting foam-rubber-like substance. The substance is a solid when in the firearm, only becoming liquid for timespans measured on the Plank scale after being fired, when making contact with a solid or semi-solid substance. Human skin is sufficiently solid for the projectile to undergo the temporary transformation. Obviously, larger caliber rounds were more effective as restraints. (Nobody's sure why the Professor used the name "Snurf-tech" for this effect. It isn't as if he cared about trademarks any other time...)
(And that quote counts as the teaser I was going to post later this month, too...)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012