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Humans are such strange creatures. We can do a billion things in moments but we hardly control their happenings. Our hearts beat, lungs draw in air, muscles move, and our thoughts race but itīs not like we command our body for every movement. We donīt have to think to pump our blood, our lungs draw air on their own unless we choose to take control, and our muscles move so easily we just think of where we want them and not so much how to move them instead they just find themselves where we want them, until they begin to stretch or over extend of course.

This is not the case for Kevin. Kevin has experienced, well lets just call it an accident. The doctors say he will be fine but he must manually command almost all his bodily functions. Most of his organs seem to maintain their independence, he still digests food without commanding himself to do so but his lungs, heart, and most of his muscles require his direct command to move making it rather difficult to get through a normal day.

Let us peek in on his life as Kevin tries to live an ordinary life. Does he have the concentration and patience to make it through a day like this? Let us find out.


Kevin has awoke from sleep, the doctor said his subconscious is able to control his body during sleep but when he is awake he must take control. The room is pitch black, Kevin lays still. What should he do?

You contemplate heading towards the AF base, the sound of the sirens grows louder.  ((Silent laughter, who says you are close to the attacks?))

You can see the vehicles heading closer so you take cover behind a car. A small caravan of emergency vehicles zooms past, first an army jeep, then a firetruck, next two police cruisers, then an ambulance, then another army jeep.

Before you can think to do anything the vehicles are gone, blaring down the road toward the smoke in the distance.

What now?

Hurrying to get away from any blast or other immediate danger you get back in the car and drive it down the road, around to the other side of the hill.

You stop on the side of the road near the base of the hill and begin frantically looking for something ANYTHING to make a mask out of.

But the contents of the car stay the same, the best you can do is fold the jacket a few times and hold it to your face.

During all of this you have noticed the ground shaking every so often, small tremors rocking the car back and forth. Even the trees sway ever so slightly as the ground shakes.

What do you do now?

((Donīt expect constant updates all the time, I am a high school student taking my freshman year of college worth of dual credit courses))

Yes it is! but on a smaller scale

Another purpose (or design) would be igniting surroundings. A thermoberric is better at using preasure to destroy it's surroundings than igniting them but I also want to avoid using something like napalm as that would be more incendiary than needed and less portable (I would think but I am probably wrong) than a preasurized flammable gas

So I've had a few ideas of scifi weapons to use in my games and stories. I was wondering if any of them would be effective, not so much practical as scifi weapons usually aren't very practical but if they would be possible.

If they are in the realm of possibility I would also like to hear how difficult (money, manufacturing, international legality of a nation making/using it, resources, etc) it would be to produce.


That being said others are welcome to ask questions about ideas they have had and people who have the knowledge to provide this information please provide feedback.


So let's start with a simple one, an incendiary grenade who's main purpose is to burn up the oxygen in a room rather than burn those inside. It would be like a canister full of gas that would release into the room and after a few moments a mechanism in the canister would spark an ignition of sorts to burn the gas 

"Yes sir! I'm going to draw my weapon now." ((Thanks. I didn't know I had anything yet.)) And with that, I draw that rifle. What calibre is it, by the way? Chamber a round. Softly.

(We'll say 5.56)

"I would prefer to keep from killing them now. They are looking for a prewar bunker burried in these ruins. I wish to kill them in a sabotage of the integrity of the ceiling of the bunker. Kill them all in a freak accident rather than shoot them but if it comes to it you may need to use your rifle."

"Now I'm going to bring them back to the rally point. Tell them I saw an animal or something. You'll need to stay hidden. I want you to shadow us to the bunker, I'll take watch at the entrance, from there we can make more plans. Understood?"

((Just so no one calls me out on this, while main character has extensive knowledge on foreign weapons, he has very limited knowledge of WMDs because most nations have kept the type of weapon (nuclear, kinetic, thermoberic, chemical, viral, etc etc) secret so their enemies can not form a way to defend against them))

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"They are not looking for me, I came with them. I will disclose no more information than that I wish to disban from these people. You can call me Emmett. You're going to help me rig a fallout bunker to collapse, then you can have it to scavv what you want from it. Am I understood?"