See if I can create shoulder mounted rail cannons that can be used in place of the back blades. And also see how one does against a standard UWM squad.
How powerful? Gauss cannon powerful?
Pictures... difficult...phone internets... horrible... drawing impossible...
Think of an oscillation grinder like the "renovator multi-tool" but with the cutting tip shaped like a vibranium edged gladius and the blade coming out of the center of the hilt instead of from below it.
As for the cutting blade, imagine an unshaded hand drawn leaf.
The exterior edging is the monofilament, the veins are the wafer thin almost superfluous support struts, the white spaces are air and the stem gets slitted into the oscillator to anchor the blade in place.
Get price check on flourescent death tube and vibranium osvillation gladius, test effectiveness against standard targets and materials.
Yeah, thats the basic gist of my flourescent laser sword, now it just needs to be telescopic and produce visible light.
The mono-thing probably wouldn't work.
As per the spinning thing, I've used tools like that before and they jerk about a fair bit, even when well balanced. I'm saying that you're gonna have to counterbalance the thing to prevent vibration. And it's also gonna be quite hard to use. Since, if you just thrust it forward willy nilly, it's just gonna hit the metal "arm" part and not the cutting surface. I suppose you could run mono-razors up the outside length of the arm. That would work.
It would also be heavy and scary as fuck. Just a giant whirring blade of death on a stick.
The glowing sword...Does it have to be a light tube? This would be so much easier if it was just a piece of metal heated with an electric current. Not that either will do much against things in a quick manner. Heat doesn't really "Chop" through stuff very well.
Thanks for the info. Wonder if Steve would let me connect to the Sword's power supply to test that. What's the worse that can happen? 6+2
How about this monoatomic Spinner Staff, Shredder Sword and Slicer Saucer? Would they work?
Assume I'm using the best quality monoatomic wire I can get and a reasonably strong material for the rest of the weapon, with something a bit stronger for the guards and covers. Assume the spinning parts are spinning as fast as possible without there being a danger of breaking.
How does each of those weapons perform against a sod and against a battlesuit? What are their problems? How do they perform in terms of cutting speed and fragility?
  | The Cyan and Red is the monoatomic wire.
The Blue and Yellow are the things holding the monoatomic wires.
The Orange is the cover. It holds the
internal mechanisms that make the spinners spin. It protects the
inside of the machine from damage. It isn't very thick so that the sword
won't become embedded into whatever it stabs.
The Green is the guard. It doesn't need
to be as strong as the cover.
The Magenta is the hilt. It has the
on/off button.
The Cyan and Yellow spinners are
actually two spinners, one on either side of the Red and Blue spinners. |
 | Works much the same as the sword, only smaller.
The Cyan is the monoatomic wire.
The Orange is the cover. It holds the
internal mechanisms that make the spinners spin. It protects the
inside of the machine from damage. It isn't very thick so that the staff
won't become embedded into whatever it stabs.
The Magenta is the handle. It has the
on/off button. |
 | This is a weapon that launches a very thin remote controlled drone that can fly via a coaxial rotor.
The two spinners (Blue, Yellow, Cyan, Red) are connected and form the coaxial rotor. The mechanism for rotating the spinners and the camera is located between the two.
The Saucer is spun up by the mechanisms that rest within the Orange part before being fired forward.
The handle and trigger is the Magenta part. It also has a screen and the remote control mechanism. It could support a small program that will help with targeting or obstacle avoidance, like the one Sean has made for the scout eyes. It has a cylindrical slot under it where magazines containing 3 saucers can be inserted.
It looks kinda like a Ripper but works like a Razorjack's alt fire combined with a Manhack in a much thinner package. |
Yes, I know it's going to be expensive. But man-usable-monoatomic-sword. Only problem I see is that it will need some Dex and Str to use, because unless I use very expensive materials it's going to be heavy and because of the spinning parts it's going to be resistant to twisting the sword because of angular momentum.
Shredder:
So a mono-atomic chain saw basically? First thing I'd have to say is "This is a lot of moving parts, potential breaking, malfunction and chance of hurling monoatomic Frisbees into your teammates for something that is gonna have about the same function as a monoblade. I mean, realistically, why is this gonna be more effective? It's not like a chainsaw which has teeth to cut with as it rotates.
Second one is fine, though, again, I'd say you could make something substantially less breakable and more versatile by taking what amounts to a big, metal 20 sided dice and putting a monorazor on each "edge" and then mounting the whole thing on a handle to make a Mono atomic Mace of sorts.
The last one is basically just gonna be what happens when the first one breaks. I'd say there's a bit of a problem with it because the rotation is either going to be slowed rather quick and the looseness of the wire will cause it to snap, or could deflect off because of the spin.
Well, even if my round doesn't affect the armor of a battlesuit very much, I'm pretty damn sure anything that almost instantly flattens one into the ground is still gonna injure the pilot/cause joints and systems to fail.
To answer the question on effectiveness though, I'd first need to know exactly what damage to the battlesuit(BESIDES knocking it down) it does. Assume direct hit to center of mass/cockpit for this. Then, extrapolate out from this calculation to the point where it doesn't do any damage besides maybe shifting the suit a little
If the round actually strikes the suit and isn't an airburst, it's gonna do a lot of damage. Enough to probably kill the pilot. Air burst that knocks it down, it's hard to say what will happen. Chances are there will be some damage, either to the pilot or some system, but it's not going to be consistent.
Probably about 30 feet, then.
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