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Total Members Voted: 14

[Taricus]

Yeah, myomers aren't gonna be replacing motors. What they can replace is stuff like hydraulics and pneumatics. And given the force they'd be able to affect on something, it'd be natural to assume they're pretty tough whilst still being flexible and somewhat light.

[Maximum Spin]

What they can replace is stuff like hydraulics and pneumatics.

Those are types of motor.

[FallacyofUrist]

And we can inject people with Myomers to make super-soldiers. Just a thought.

[Taricus]

...Myomers aren't liquids. We can't inject them. That, and it'd be easier to just give them a powered myomer suit to turn them into supersoldiers.

[Jilladilla]

Ok. So this may be somewhat powered by Sleep Deprivation, but I had an idea inspired by the failure of the SMG-12:
We go all in on gatling guns. (Or rotary cannons, I guess. Same thing really.)


Also fueled by this mood, a request and a votebox!:

Change the name of the SMG-12 to SGG-12: (1) Jilladilla
Leave it as is:

[Taricus]

I intend to revise the SMG-12 into being... well, an actual SMG. So the name change isn't likely warranted for the time being.

[Jilladilla]

I intend to revise the SMG-12 into being... well, an actual SMG. So the name change isn't likely warranted for the time being.

But that's boring and not almost assuredly unique! Just need to make the current thing smaller and not suck. (also, remember that the thing was slapped with a Theoretical difficulty; I don't think revising it into 'an actual SMG' is going to be simple. Not for a little while, at least. Better action economy to just roll with it I believe.)

And this is mild sci-fi isn't it? Let's have some fun with it yeah? Mechs and airships and gatling guns everywhere!

[Chiefwaffles]

I agree. I want to keep a WW1 tone with this instead of going immediately towards WW2, as well.

[Taricus]

I'm gonna say no to the gatling gun thing for small arms thank you. We do need to aim to actually hit things, and we can't do that with gatling small arms. Besides, getting a regular SMG and the like working means we can eventually get actual miniguns.

We aren't going to ever be able to keep the WW1 vibe going though, not least because there's going to be armoured vehicles running around making WW2 anyway. Times change and when they do, we need to adapt.

[Twinwolf]

I don’t think it’s going to be world war 1 forever, no - I think it’ll be something else by the time we start even. That said, I think we need to make some intermediate steps before “small arms machine gun”. Revising something with theoretical difficulty won’t be easy barring event bonuses, and I’d rather our guys have functioning close range weaponry by the time we start. We have a headstart on automatics - let's take a step back and invent semi auto as a jumping off point later :p

[Jilladilla]

Yes, we do need to be able to aim in order to hit things, and the current mess of the SMG-12 makes that hard due to the crank being on top of the gun. We do have ways around this; from clever machining to the simple solution of 'stick a tiny engine in it'. The LGG-12 only needs 2 Gavrilium, so a smaller engine is likely to be well within the margin of being 'Cheap'; at least on that front.

Really, fixing that crank fixes the aiming issues; the sights won't be obstructed anymore, and the wielder can steady the thing with both hands.

And nothing really stops us from going towards rotary autocannons or miniguns in the future. We've already got their direct descendants in the GGG/LGG-12, those being driven by engines and not cranks.

[Taricus]

The problem about the crank is it's positioning, regarding the aiming. I can't imagine anywhere we could theoretically put it that'd enable aiming or else be comfortable to use. Dispensing with the crank entirely would definitely make the weapon a hell of a lot more usable.

[Maximum Spin]

Two words: myomer gun.

[Rockeater]

Two words: myomer gun.

I don't know if I think on what you think but that could work

[Taricus]

Well, it could work if he's presuming something like a grapple hook attached to myomer. Could make our troops pretty mobile in addition to letting them do good scorpion impersonations.