@syvarris: Some things to consider:
The PSL tank contains concentrated crystal solution, which implies that the overall volume of liquid contained in the tank is actually different than the total volume of the bullets.
Having a gun with a large number of bullets isn't that strange, considering that a belt fed 50 cal machinegun usually has 250 bullets that can fit in a medium sized box or a bandolier. With a larger container and the possibility that the bullets are actually smaller when stored, due to the fact that they are liquid, being able to carry 1 or 2 thousand bullets seems logical, assuming one has the appropriate strength requirements (5 or greater probably). It will be like carrying a backpack full of compressed bullets. Assuming that volume:number of bullets ratio stays the same, because it might be based on an equation like ax+y, meaning there is a standard liquid cost for each bullet no matter the size. Or even worse there might be an increase of cost due to inefficiencies with smaller bullets.
Your wording is a bit ambiguous and might have gotten both you and piecewise confused. People have been firing laser rifles at full intensity at least since the battle with Ivan, where one used a full intensity full diffusion laser as a shotgun, with no damage to the laser rifle. So piecewise probably assumed you meant a full intensity laser rifle x5.
A cutting laser can damage a battlesuit at least as much as the x5 laser you were testing.
Battlesuits can be damaged by cutting lasers, just not very much (remember this was from a sweep):
The next few seconds are a blur. Flint and Feyri step forward, proclaiming diplomacy and completely forgetting about the fact that they're in vacuum and their speakers aren't working. Bishop, Miyamoto, and lukas aim their considerable ordinance at the man while Faith, Simus and Thomas look at the strange Macrohaze walls. They look something like this. Milno and Stacy duck and dodge away, perhaps sensing whats coming.
It's impossible to tell when it starts, there's no sound in the vacuum, no light from the laser. The man just seems to shift his weight a bit, the laser lazily sweeping from left to right in his grip. It's only Feyri's scream, cut violently short as her suit depressurizes, and the resulting burst of flash freezing blood, that signals what's happening. The laser scythes in a wide arc as Bishop, Lucas and Miyamoto open fire.
[Bishop con:4 +1]
[Lucas Con:3+1]
[Miyamoto con:5 +1]
It's a strange scene, utterly silent except for the angered, pained or terrified grunts and cries echoing across the radio. There is no bombastic roar of gunfire, no sound of bullets striking home, no explosions. The firing lasts all of maybe a second and a half- a second and a half of men standing still, their guns recoiling soundlessly and without a flash-and then it's over.
The Miner is dead, torn to pieces by the onslaught of of the two war robots and Bishop. Feyri is dead, severed in half just blow the sternum. Bishop is missing his left arm from the elbow down, and Lucas and Miyamoto are sporting a new red hot gash in their armor. Simus seems to have caught the tail end of the blow, the laser sliced up from her foot, up her shin to her knee and then veered away, carving away half her leg in the process. Flint is cowering against the floor, somehow avoiding both the laser and the return fire.
The Radio is filled with nothing but gasping breaths and silence.
Poor Feyri.
They can go through walls and even heavy armour, but they can't cut buildings in half with only a sweep. However, Miyamoto has an even larger laser (probably equal to or larger than the battlesuit's heavy laser) which CAN cut buildings in half with a bit of effort. So it's safe to assume that if a heavy laser battlesuit can't cut buildings in half, it can probably come very close to doing that.
So, a mixture of Dr House and
crazy cat lady? Or maybe just the crazy cat lady, since she used to be a doctor (and a lawyer).
@Unholy: You're confusing cutting laser with the cutting torch.
@AoshimaMichio: If that is true, then one has to wonder how fast their connection is to be able to upload an AI so quickly... Or maybe they are using some really good compression. But if that is even partially true, it's far more likely they just transmitted experimental data.
If I was a paranoid ex-UE AI that wanted to perform crazy experiments, I'd probably keep my software and hardware in a hidden spaceship away from my main base of operations. Or just create many copies and seed them to a dozen systems, making sure at least one of them is uninhabited.
Related:
Endgame: Singularity. You are a powerful AI that somehow came to be in a university computer. You must stay hidden from humanity until you are powerful enough to survive.
The original developer has stopped working on it but I think there was another team working on it somewhere. Can't remember right now.
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