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Abaddon

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Garbage Gun
« on: February 14, 2013, 02:01:24 PM »

So would it be possible to have a gun that fires huge balls of sludge that stick to enemy ships and eat through the hull?
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Re: Garbage Gun
« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2013, 03:01:48 PM »

Like plasma or like bile, it depends on the situation and weapon (different affects)
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Re: Garbage Gun
« Reply #2 on: February 14, 2013, 03:02:50 PM »

Like plasma or like bile, it depends on the situation and weapon (different affects)
This sounds like some of the suggestions for incendiary rounds. Maybe we can come up with other kinds of wacky weapons? What what about a gun that fires scrap metal at high velocity and can knock around ships. It would be like the Rock-it Launcher from Fallout 3.
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Re: Garbage Gun
« Reply #3 on: February 14, 2013, 03:11:12 PM »

Like plasma or like bile, it depends on the situation and weapon (different affects)
This sounds like some of the suggestions for incendiary rounds. Maybe we can come up with other kinds of wacky weapons? What what about a gun that fires scrap metal at high velocity and can knock around ships. It would be like the Rock-it Launcher from Fallout 3.
(or the scrap gun from TF2) what about 'burrower' missiles that drill into the hull and explode (silly because we could use it for bio ship weapons)
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Re: Garbage Gun
« Reply #4 on: February 14, 2013, 05:02:16 PM »

/genericuser1 How about a tiny cannon that fires a stream of space pigeons into your engine and mucks it up?

/genericuser2 Sounds legit.
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Re: Garbage Gun
« Reply #5 on: February 15, 2013, 06:34:29 PM »

Like plasma or like bile, it depends on the situation and weapon (different affects)
This sounds like some of the suggestions for incendiary rounds. Maybe we can come up with other kinds of wacky weapons? What what about a gun that fires scrap metal at high velocity and can knock around ships. It would be like the Rock-it Launcher from Fallout 3.
(or the scrap gun from TF2) what about 'burrower' missiles that drill into the hull and explode (silly because we could use it for bio ship weapons)
I like the burrow cannon, that could be interesting, it almost negats armor by eating through it then exploding, fun. And I suppose a nano-cloud canister cannon could be a good idea, if done well
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Re: Garbage Gun
« Reply #6 on: February 16, 2013, 03:38:02 PM »

Got the idea for the garbage gun from an epi of Andromeda. They where in a system that was in the middle of a very volatile nebula and normal weapons had the possibility to ignite the entire cloud and destroy the system. The one thing the inhabitants had in excess was garbage, so they developed a way to render all the garbage down into a toxic, acidic sludge and used it for the ship based weapons. Plus, well I am just a huge fan of dots.
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Re: Garbage Gun
« Reply #7 on: February 16, 2013, 03:42:29 PM »

/genericuser1 How about a tiny cannon that fires a stream of space pigeons into your engine and mucks it up?

/genericuser2 Sounds legit.
I'm not sure at all what the point of this was.
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Re: Garbage Gun
« Reply #8 on: February 16, 2013, 07:27:32 PM »

/genericuser1 How about a tiny cannon that fires a stream of space pigeons into your engine and mucks it up?

/genericuser2 Sounds legit.
I'm not sure at all what the point of this was.

I believe he was referring to the idea that this thread would soon be full of silly ideas.

Also, why not have a gun/system designed to flameout a ship's engines?
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Re: Garbage Gun
« Reply #9 on: February 17, 2013, 04:18:49 AM »

/genericuser1 How about a tiny cannon that fires a stream of space pigeons into your engine and mucks it up?

/genericuser2 Sounds legit.
I'm not sure at all what the point of this was.

I believe he was referring to the idea that this thread would soon be full of silly ideas.

Also, why not have a gun/system designed to flameout a ship's engines?

We already have space pidgeons.
They're called salmanders and are made out of metal.
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