Hey, so I've been wondering- is it possible to make a weapon that will reliably cut straight through an enemy (or at least an average human enemy) with each blow? I've been messing with the raws fairly extensively, but can never seem to get it quite right, which is making me wonder if it's doable at all. For reference, I'm talking about something akin to the monomolecular wire used by the Yakuza Assassin in the William Gibson short story Johnny Mnemonic:
"Playback on full recall shows Ralfi stepping forward as the little tech sidles out of nowhere, smiling. Just a suggestion of a bow, and his left thumb falls of. It'a a conjuring trick. The thumb hangs suspended. Mirrors? Wires? And Ralfi stops, his back to us, dark crescents of sweat under the armpits of his pale summer suit. He knows. He must have known. And then the joke-shop thumbtip, heavy as lead, arcs out in a lighting yo-yo trick, and the invisible thread connecting it to the killer's hand passes laterally through Ralfi's skull, just above his eyebrows, whips up, and descends, slicing the pearshaped torso diagonally from shoulder to rib cage. Cuts so fine that no blood flows until synapses misfire and the first tremors surrender the body to gravity.
Ralfi tumbled apart in a pink cloud of fluids, the three mismatched section rolling forward on the tiled pavement. In total silence."
I've tried everything- varying contact areas, extremely high penetration values, all sorts of velocity modifiers, a variety of materials... Nothing seems to get the desired effect. Any advice would be much appreciated.