I don't think it'd be any different from animal control tranquilizer darts, except in physical damage delivered. So probably no on the war crime.
Depends on if Maldavian mind rot is considered a
WMD.
I'm saying it devalues stats gained by mundane people like Lars and Milno.
Lars fights by will of the gods! He's more like a Paladin, really... though he's about to take a level in Psionicist.
Wait, what?
If my calculations are correct an electron goes about 2km/s when orbiting a proton.
I remember reading that if electrons really did orbit protons in a conventional sense, the moving electrical charge would cause a release of...something, I forget what, causing the electron to lose energy and crash into the proton in a tiny fraction of a second. So that number might be meaningless.
You also have the problem that heat from firing might just boil the booze.
I chatted with a firearms expert I know, and he said it was doable. He said it depends on how much was getting heated up, but unless it managed to make the alcohol reach its flash point, it would be fine. He compared it to incendiary rounds, in case that helps.
When I explained the situation, he pointed out that is might be pointless. How potent is a few grams of mind rot, anyways?
Three, You talk about the electromagnetic amp for the purposes of self protection, but I fail to see how it will protect you from being pulverized into subatomic shrapnel when you jerk your body forward at significant values of c, or just c.
They say that it's the sudden stop at the end that kills you, but they're wrong. What kills you is that all of you doesn't stop at the same time.Your feet stop first, but your knees are still moving. If your shins can absorb the force, great; if not, you've got broken legs. Perhaps more importantly, when your skull stops moving, your brain hasn't stopped yet, so it bangs into the skull. I could go on, but the sum total of it is that if you accelerate all your bits and pieces an equal amount at the same time you'll be fine. Of course, at those speeds uneven rounding errors could be fatal, but aside from stuff like that, it'll be good.
Fourth, ignoring all the others, even if they all worked, you're accelerating to c and then back to 0 in HOW MANY METERS?! I'm no physicist but I'm pretty sure that much energy would kill you and everyone around you for several miles with just the shockwave.
Unless manips follow Newton's 3rd Law of Motion, it'll be fine.Presumably, vector manips move material...um...they move stuff without needing to move anything in the opposite direction. Hence, the only thing that could cause issues from that is the stuff actually being accelerated...which can't actually collide with anything, since their electromagnetism is turned off.
The weapons we have, have a certain series of flaws, or perhaps one big flaw - they are too specialized. A gauss rifle, once you choose it, is good for exactly one thing - punching a hole in the thing you point it at. It's really good for it, as long as there's only the one thing - the refire delay means that you can't engage multiple rapidly approaching targets with it, and the shot power means that if you're threatened by something numerous and unarmored - like if Xan decides to flood the universe with Xanlings - then you're wasting your limited ammo on massive overkill of single targets. Conversely, the laser rifle is great for sweeping the beam around and killing little things, but it takes a longer, more concentrated and more accurate attack to kill something big with it. The designs I thought of try to address those two points, giving the weapons more versatility so that if a soldier has only one type of weapon, he is less screwed if he encounters a situation his weapon is not intended for. While, hopefully, staying cheap enough for mass production.
That is a bit of a problem. Brings a new level of meaning to phrases like "general-purpose machine gun," doesn't it?
And that video is exactly what I was thinking of when I was reading that. Good ol' Bert.
They are rather more like swiss army chainsaw-chucks.
Yeah, that is correct. Still, they're being compared to simple daggers. I'm more affraid of the perfect master of the SWC-C than the perfect master of a dagger.
So am I. That would be a good thing if I wasn't on the same team as them.
Space magic has its own downsides. Conventional weapons might not be able to damage a given enemy efficiently; space magic probably can, but it's a lot more reliant on luck. Too low and you'll do nothing except give yourself a crippling headache (something that you can't do with a gun), too high and you'll have people trying to fit a 9 to your situation.
Otherwise you'd see a rather radical change in the personality of the subject placed in the body.
Given the kind of people we're talking about, this is a bad thing?
Indeed, but the principle behind a soldering iron might mean you can get a stretch of 'wire/cable' incredibly hot in an easier way. That's what you're trying to get, right? A stretch of very hot material to slice through things? Or is the usage of lasers absolutely critical to you? 
Of course it is! Lasers make
everything cooler! (Except the stuff they heat up to extreme temperatures.)
Alright. Just for fun, let's see if I can design some things I saw online. Unless piecewise rejects this kind of thing because it takes up too much time.
Let's start simple.
Design a sort of belt-fed shotgun built into a gauntlet. (The belt should also be covered by part of the gauntlet.) Also design incendiary shotgun shells. I don't know enough about shotguns or incendiary rounds to see anything terribly problematic with that, so that should be sufficient.
