I'm curious...
How closely does this skirt the "Handwavium will not make complex weapons" restriction?
If I read it correctly, the handwavium parts are the battery, and the 'spark fusion initiator'. These were both originally waved up for non-weapons purposes. Does this mean that if you build a non-weapon, then dismantle it, and re-purpose the bits as a weapon it gets you around the "no handwavium weapons" restriction?
Taking another example, if you wave-up a sounding rocket, so it works well in atmosphere and space (maybe with a quirk of throwing out very visible pink sparks?), then, strip it down, and place a hard tech war head in it, does this work?
If the rocket trick works, I can see a lot of Mundane militaries being very interested...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sounding_rocket
Or, is this a "Don't ask this question about the Fenspace setting" question?
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind
How closely does this skirt the "Handwavium will not make complex weapons" restriction?
If I read it correctly, the handwavium parts are the battery, and the 'spark fusion initiator'. These were both originally waved up for non-weapons purposes. Does this mean that if you build a non-weapon, then dismantle it, and re-purpose the bits as a weapon it gets you around the "no handwavium weapons" restriction?
Taking another example, if you wave-up a sounding rocket, so it works well in atmosphere and space (maybe with a quirk of throwing out very visible pink sparks?), then, strip it down, and place a hard tech war head in it, does this work?
If the rocket trick works, I can see a lot of Mundane militaries being very interested...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sounding_rocket
Or, is this a "Don't ask this question about the Fenspace setting" question?
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind