ECSNorway Wrote:Please demonstrate the fictional model you used to create the device, then. How did you cue the handwavium to make this instead of, oh, a psychedelic disco ball?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lensman_series
"developed shields and screens to block enemy systems from drawing the
power, and upgraded the power systems for their "Mauler" class of attack
vessels to defeat systems reliant on cosmic-energy collection."
There is more in the source materials. If you want I can dig-out stories where "nuclear suppression" gadgets stop fission and/or fusion reactions over a big area - from memory Saberhagen's "Black Mountains" stories ("Empire of the East") start from a continent-wide one of those messing-up. I think I recall something from a Jack L. Chalker story, too.
I dialed-back the power levels on all of this in the hope of getting something which was a non-lethal weapon, and which far more suited the Fenspace setting. I'm of the opinion that Fenspace needs more interesting non-lethal weapons, as well as figuring-out the hard-tech or mushy-tech route to lethal science fiction weapons.
If this isn't acceptable, I'll junk the idea.
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