ClassicDrogn Wrote:* R-values far higher than the speed of light are easily achieved, for values of easy that involve fusion or antimatter power generation. Walking through walls requires a tight body suit with a breathing mask and a handbag-sized power supply worn on a belt or at the back, and generally means the first thing you walk though are any clothes or unconnected equipment being worn over it. Actually making off with any loot once you've walked through the side of a vault requires bringing a container of some kind that is also synchronized to the Q-displacement effect.Green, and Orange Imply a Current practicible Minimum Size limit.
* If you want to fight, you pretty much have to get in visual range and fine tune your Q-displacement to match your opponent, then shoot them with something that is either big enough to have its own Q-sustainer like a missile, or which moves fast enough not to drift too far out of Q before it hits, like a laser. Lasers used for the purpose have a very slow R-value and bleed light in all directions due to the way they're transitioning out of Q, and tend to hit with concussive force more than they burn. In an atmosphere, they produce a dopplered bloop dependent on the light frequency (UV Q-lasers shriek, IR ones wub, and visible light is somewhere in the "pew pew" range, naturally -- yes there is performance art taking advantage of this effect) followed by a bang as the blast hits. Physical bullets are useless, running into the S-drag as soon as they leave the barrel and falling out of Q to be run into with their negligible S velocity.
At least untill some idiot of an engineer figures out how to make an anti-matter powercell small enough to fit in a Shotgun Cartridge to power a Q-Sustainer. (Eyrie Thunder-Cracker Shotgun rounds, anyone?)
I'd Suggest:
Physical bullets are not actually usless. However, due to current powersource dynamics, their use is Economically Impractable at sizes smaller than used for Tanks or Field Artillery.