1.Gauss cannons (the man portable guns that are basically upgraded, larger gauss rifles) have 16th kiloton shells.
And how big are those shells? Could they be sized down to normal-bullet-sized ones, albeit with smaller yields? Would any such bullets be able to be fired at people without the shooter being in danger?
2. They don't hybridize. You can have a synth-flesh limb attached to a normal body, but they're not hybrid, it's just attached like a normal robot limb or prosthetic.
That's boring.
What's the fleshy part of synthflesh, anyways? Plastic? Rubber? Undefined intermediate polymer?
Hey, how big is an automanip? Such information is important for my planned Battlesuit-killer!
You don't need to be piecewise to answer, you know...
Depends on what they're being used for and how powerful they are. The ones in cannons like the ones on the sword are the size of small trucks.
...Might not be practical for my plans.
So, several inches?
Mortar shell or something it is, I guess.
1. Program an auto-matter-manipulator to turn everything from, let's say, 20 centimeters to a meter away from it into hydrogen when it receives a signal.
2. Attach a tactile sensor (ie, big button) to it. Do not touch the button. Ever.
3. Load them both into a shell, with a width a bit more than the width of the rest of the stuff and a length significantly larger, making sure to mark which end is the end that dropping it on will make your day very very bad. Also make sure to add some padding in the ends.
4. Mark "Do Not Use At Close Range" on the side.
You now have a Grate Shell! It's a bit big, but worth it!
When fired from a mortar or whatever, the automanip will hit the padding in back. When it hits the target (a battlesuit, in this case), it will slide forward and the tactile sensor will activate, telling the automanip to turn stuff into hydrogen. Including large amounts of battlesuit. The generation of a large amoung of hydrogen might result in an explosion should a spark emanate from the remnants of the battlesuit, but since it's far away I don't care.
Ideal world, you could recover the Shell later, but I wouldn't count on it.
It has bugs to work out, no doubt, but this is a good start.
Grate attempts to make the aforedescribed weapon for his Simus project, without destroying his virtual self.
This is basically the same as the Microwave glue bomb someone made elsewhere in this reply. Except it's gonna be more expensive. and bigger.
How big would an automanip for something like that be? And how flexible of a shape?
Okay, scratch the shell for a sec. Instead, have an automanip that hydrogenizes everything in a, let's say, 20-cm-wide cylinder with one end half a meter from the automanip and the other end 20 meters away. Not the best range, but I can work on the details once I figure out things like aiming and size and design.
(If this doesn't work, I'm probably going to try for a completely different tactic.)
1. For shells that size you're better off with conventional explosives.
2.Synthflesh is 100% organic. And angry
3. Not very big. Size of a zippo lighter maybe?
PROJECT OVERWATCH:
Yeah, TPU is on the wiki. I put it there.
Problem is that there's no weight for anything, so I don't know if strapping two gauss cannon generators on the thing would be light enough, or if it is how much weight I have left over. Although... really, a cutting laser should draw massively more power than 200 HP, so it's probably not very important...
How much would an 8 TPU generator (four gauss rifle/two gauss cannon equivalent) cost by itself, without the extra costs presumably caused by needing gauss generators to be miniaturized? Twenty pounds, unless it can be smaller for the same price.
Next question, how effective is the cutting laser at range? Test against a battlesuit at 100m, 500m, 1000m, 2000, and 3000m.
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PROJECT ABS-8
As to the sticky rocket, twenty degrees is a lot. At least, if it affects the right area- the brain. If your brain is just a few degrees off temp, it's doing pretty bad. Serious seizures start happening when your brain is just five degrees over. Twenty degrees should start doing damage pretty much immediately, making coordinated dexterity hard at the least. And then, even if the manip cuts out after five seconds, their brain is still hot, and it's not going to cool before the pilot goes into a coma. Especially considering the air jumped twenty degrees too. Oh, and full robobodies should be just as susceptible- they have brains to cook too.
As far as range... How big is a battlesuit? Is the head of the pilot more than three meters up? If so, how much would it cost to increase the automanip's heating radius so it's one meter taller than a battlesuit? I'll assume it costs one token for the test.
So: Take the design I have. Create a large urban battlefield, then spawn two opposing forces a distance away. Each is composed of fifty sods with MKI suits and gauss or laser rifles alongside five battlesuits piloted by a UWM trooper in MKI. One side gets five trained UWM operatives equipped with my launcher, and four tokens worth of stealth technology for sneaking up on a battlesuit. The other side gets the same operatives, but only equipped with Piezoelectric shard launchers- no stealth stuff.
Both sides have remote commanders who have good knowledge of their force's positions, and good communications with the troops.
Run the battle an arbitrary amount of times. Who wins more often? Try to figure out why- what's the biggest failing in my weapon?
((I'm mildly surprised that this might be a feasible weapon. Only costs eight or nine tokens, and extra shots cost two if you can recover the manip. Also, it can function as a trap, leaves the battlesuit at least mostly recoverable, and should be pretty light. It's not even as short ranged as I thought it would be.
It's actually really similar to a futuristic AT4 with some added functionality, come to think of it.))
Oh god thats a lot of text.
An 8 tpu generator made using gauss gens would be like 5 token. And I believe the gens for those are like...I dunno, size of a deck of playing cards or so? So stack 8 of them and theres your size. Couple of pounds.
Cutting laser isn't really effective against battlesuits. Remember, their armor is made resistant to it using the reflective fibers that are spread through it.
Yeah, but that assumes you're hitting the exact right place for that to happen. It's gonna be a case of get a 5 and it's an insta kill, get a 4 and it doesn't do jack.
Battle suit is, say, 3 meters tall. Pilot's head is probably at about 7 feet off the ground, maybe a little higher. Not sure what you mean though. You want to heat like, an oblong, pill shaped area from where the thing hits up like 3 meters, so you can just aim low and not have to worry about being direct?
That simulation...probably still the piezo guys because of the area off effect of it. But not by much. Gotta remember too, that 150 miles an hour isn't outside the range of being smacked or shot down by keen eyed pilots while the shards are much faster.
Same game different rules...
enter session with simus and others move slightly away from the group spawn two battle suits facing each other one normally assembled and one shown mechanically exploded
Have a small backpack mounted generator and capacitor bank (similar to the Gauss rifle's) then connect it to a set of laser rifle optics ruggedised to deal with higher power output and more powerful pump along with multiple gain media in series each pumped by the laser previous. Second the whole system is fitted in a chassis made of reinforced plastics and is shoulder mounted and has a scope contained in it that functions the same way as cam-eyes. Finally allow the pump & gain setup to be removed easily.
test system
I have no idea what you're trying to make there. Pump with a laser? Help.
Gain medium = the object that produces a laser (coherent light) when energised with another energy source including other lasers
Pump = energy source for Gain medium
As above
So...just a big laser? I'm not seeing what makes this different from a normal laser, but bigger. Are you just trying to take a cutting laser and turn it into more of a pulsed thing?