Weapons design is a complex as it is weird. It's governed as much by the rule of cool as it is by what better way to exploit loopholes and build something that turns everyone into ashes. Death rays might dazzle or stun for a second. (Which is useful in and of itself. A chocolate grenade to blind and bind followed by a spray of conventional bullets is a nice one-two) While your industrial laser will have trouble scorching the paint of a moving target even with a handwaved power supply.
Although action-figure based biomods brings to mind one horrible hilarious quirk. Considering most action figures are designed for consumption by children.... and there're things we can't have children seeing. >..>.
I'm still curious what sort of stories you're planning to write with this stuff, or what you're planning to do with it. I mean, automated, reasonably stable, make someone superhuman goop? There're a lot of people who'll want that. A whole group of people actively researching it, actually. Is there any risk involved? What're the drawbacks to being nano'd? (Beyond a slight problem with electric currents). Catgirls get a nice 'feature-set' too, but at the same time the big drawback is that they also become a highly-visible, highly strange catgirl with some oddall requirements (If they're lucky). Jet has a good set of abilities.... with a few quite obvious problems that take years to work off, if at all.
And the thoughts of someone deliberately jamming something in through their own eye-socket to inject nano's into their brain along with a shot of Honey through their eye socket.... that's just creepy. Then again, it's a common trope that villains tend to seek power, while heroes just sort of fall into it. Maybe that's what's setting off my alarm bells.
And yes. Yuku is an absolute... well.... joke.
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Although action-figure based biomods brings to mind one horrible hilarious quirk. Considering most action figures are designed for consumption by children.... and there're things we can't have children seeing. >..>.
I'm still curious what sort of stories you're planning to write with this stuff, or what you're planning to do with it. I mean, automated, reasonably stable, make someone superhuman goop? There're a lot of people who'll want that. A whole group of people actively researching it, actually. Is there any risk involved? What're the drawbacks to being nano'd? (Beyond a slight problem with electric currents). Catgirls get a nice 'feature-set' too, but at the same time the big drawback is that they also become a highly-visible, highly strange catgirl with some oddall requirements (If they're lucky). Jet has a good set of abilities.... with a few quite obvious problems that take years to work off, if at all.
And the thoughts of someone deliberately jamming something in through their own eye-socket to inject nano's into their brain along with a shot of Honey through their eye socket.... that's just creepy. Then again, it's a common trope that villains tend to seek power, while heroes just sort of fall into it. Maybe that's what's setting off my alarm bells.
And yes. Yuku is an absolute... well.... joke.
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