Quote: Foxboy wrote:Ahhhhhhh. I see then. THAT makes it all the easier then. Since we already have several solid theories and facts to back-up concepts for energy
See, the major stumbling block to energy weapons with hard tech, as I seem to recall, is power generation.
Most folks in Fenspace who try to work up weapons seem to go for a direct build of whatever project they're working on.
All it will take is one person getting demonstrable results from, say, Doctor Grey's approach to the catgirling machine with weapons production to turn
the "slapstick effect" squarely on its ear.
That is, using handwavium on the tools to build the weapons, not the weapons themselves. Say our genius creates a "fabber." The handwavium effect
is that he can use materials a current hardtech fabber cannot. He takes some time and effort to create a Shirow Homage "Seburo" machine gun that
would be problematic as hardtech just from a materials point of view. He "fabs" the parts with his handwaved device, and assembles the weapon by
hand
weapons, then that is definitely something that I can work with.