Well, yeah, a sword is a thinnish slab of metal with an edge. I'm not asking for a lightsaber, Starsaber was a mental wire-cross. I meant the sword used by Victory Saber, though without the detachable hilt/jet nose thing - and the mention of assuming "no major weapon tech upgrades" by the time of the battle was for the setting, not Wave Convoy - as you say, the way things work out right now being at the upper edge of SC-class and having arms to punch with or hold a pointy stick is the pinnacle of miltech, which is also why (again) I picked the VF-2MS with its lance for a wingmate. If someone gets a reproducable, effective ranged weapon system into production, that would be different.
"SIF" is just an acronym for "Structural Integrity Field" and I don't think he even needs them on second thought, having already mentioned unusually tough contruction and the ability to lock the finger joints so the actuaotrs don't get damaged.
"Forming a spear point" as mentioned is just a shape the fingers are held in - with your hand flat, shift the tips of your index and fourth fingers under the tip of your second, then the thumb and pinky under those so your hand is a roughly triangular arrowhead shape. Painful to potentially deadly if you jam it into somone's gut and under the edge of the ribcage hard enough, real martial artists who've done body hardening and strength training can put it through the abdominal wall of someone who hasn't or is unprepared.
Before you get too excited about my character's combat potential, though, remember that it's taken nowhere near the canon extremes - Optimus Prime picked up an entire oil tanker overhead and threw it at Megatron in... I think The Ultimate Doom pt2? ... and on defense, Megatron survived being at the heart of an explosion that knocked Cybertron out of LEO to head back out into space in pt3. Either would be far, far out of place in the Fenspace setting, of course, which is WHY I didn't go anywhere near those extremes. Also, recall that he's too big to effectively bring force to bear against man-sized targets unless they're EVA, on a planet surface, or in a big enough chamber to let him swing his legs around efffectively in the Gear Fighter Dendoh style.
Dendoh (note legs - mine have four segments since they're the rear tires, but are quite similar):
www.evilnet.net/~jhfong/p...index.html
www.hlj.com/product/SKG30507
- CD
ETA: And you know what? The only usefull thing in this post is the pictures. Never mind me, I'm just in a strange mood.SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
For the next 72 hours, Itachi intoned, I will slap you with this trout. - Spying no Jutsu, chapter 3
"In the futuristic taco bell of the year 20XX, justice wears an aluminum sombrero!"hemlock-martini
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
"SIF" is just an acronym for "Structural Integrity Field" and I don't think he even needs them on second thought, having already mentioned unusually tough contruction and the ability to lock the finger joints so the actuaotrs don't get damaged.
"Forming a spear point" as mentioned is just a shape the fingers are held in - with your hand flat, shift the tips of your index and fourth fingers under the tip of your second, then the thumb and pinky under those so your hand is a roughly triangular arrowhead shape. Painful to potentially deadly if you jam it into somone's gut and under the edge of the ribcage hard enough, real martial artists who've done body hardening and strength training can put it through the abdominal wall of someone who hasn't or is unprepared.
Before you get too excited about my character's combat potential, though, remember that it's taken nowhere near the canon extremes - Optimus Prime picked up an entire oil tanker overhead and threw it at Megatron in... I think The Ultimate Doom pt2? ... and on defense, Megatron survived being at the heart of an explosion that knocked Cybertron out of LEO to head back out into space in pt3. Either would be far, far out of place in the Fenspace setting, of course, which is WHY I didn't go anywhere near those extremes. Also, recall that he's too big to effectively bring force to bear against man-sized targets unless they're EVA, on a planet surface, or in a big enough chamber to let him swing his legs around efffectively in the Gear Fighter Dendoh style.
Dendoh (note legs - mine have four segments since they're the rear tires, but are quite similar):
www.evilnet.net/~jhfong/p...index.html
www.hlj.com/product/SKG30507
- CD
ETA: And you know what? The only usefull thing in this post is the pictures. Never mind me, I'm just in a strange mood.SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
For the next 72 hours, Itachi intoned, I will slap you with this trout. - Spying no Jutsu, chapter 3
"In the futuristic taco bell of the year 20XX, justice wears an aluminum sombrero!"hemlock-martini
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows