NationStates Jolt Archive

OOC: You've made me do it. Nobody offers laser weapons. So I will.

IC: The Spatial Tactical Assault Division of The Imperial Space Agency of The Holy Empire of Cav today announces the design of new weapons to use for space infantry soldiers. Completely usable in any atmospheric conditions, the laser guns will revolutionize the way that soldiers in space use weapons.

Cav's Spatial Tactical Assault teams were finding it difficult to use their conventional metal bullets in non-atmospheric conditions, as it was very hard to get the bullets to fire, as well as the problems that Earth-made guns are designed to deal with gravity.

There are three basic models that we are producing. There is a handgun/sidearm for close combat, a rifle for medium-range, and a sniper rifle.

The guns are powered by power cells that are made up of neutrino and antineutrino reactions. Energy from the power cell is routed by shielded conduits to a pre-fire chamber. Here the energy is held temporarily by a collapsible charge barrier before passing to the emitter for discharge. When the laser’s trigger is depressed, the charge barrier field breaks down in 0.02 picoseconds.

The power cell is changeable in the field and holds a total energy charge of 8.79 x 107 megajoules.

The guns fire laser bursts, about the length of bullets, but wider and in light and heat form so that they aren’t affected by the properties of gravity or windspeed.

Here are the guns. They are available for sale.

ASLH-1 Vector

http://plaza.ufl.edu/bcav/handgun.jpg

This is the standard military sidearm that every soldier carries. Its removable battery pack ejects like a magazine from a standard handgun. Most troops should carry at least one extra power cell just in case. It fires a short burst of .35in diameter.

Length: 7.5in
Width: 1.25in
Height: 5.6in
Barrel Length: 4.25in
Weight: 31 oz

Power Cell type: 1-101
Power Cell Charge: 200 bursts

Cost: $1,500
Additional Power Cells: $100



ASLR- 14 Ravager

http://plaza.ufl.edu/bcav/phaserrifle2.jpg

This is the standard rifle for any infantryman. It has more settings and larger power cells. The cells attach onto the butt of the gun for easy removal and replacement. The rifle has three settings: short burst, medium burst, and strafe (like single bullets, 3 round burst, and fully automatic). Obviously strafe drains the power cell more quickly, but it does more damage. It fires 1in. diameter bursts.

Length: 3.55ft
Width: 3in
Height: 11in
Barrel Length: 2ft
Weight: 9lb 5oz

Power Cell type: 14-101
Power Cell charge: 5,000 bursts

Cost: $8,000
Additional Power Cells: $1,000



ASLR- 28 Widowmaker

http://plaza.ufl.edu/bcav/sspc.bmp

This is for taking out those pesky officers and heads of state. Since the gun is a laser, there is no need to make adjustments based on windspeed or distance. The gun has an infrared laser sighting, and an IR display in the scope shows exactly where the gun is aimed. All the shooter does is point and shoot. Sniping just got a lot easier. This gun fires one 1.25in diameter burst at a time. The power cells are located in the same place as the Ravager, in the butt of the gun.

Length: 4ft.
Width: 5in
Height: 8in
Barrel Length: 2.75ft
Weight: 12lb 2oz

Power Cell type: 14-101
Power Cell charge: 5,000 bursts

Cost: $10,000
Power Cells: $1,000

Wow, a 500 kilowatt battery.... what will they think of next? :)

I suggest some sort of micronized power generator... any normal battery would die instantly ;)

The technology of the battery packs and firing systems themselves is classified top secret, and therefore we cannot announce their exact specifications.

I may sound stupid, but what's to stop the buyer from simply reverse engineering them?

Tip: Don't sell something you don't want anyone to learn/know about. Just use that stuff for your own military/police force and post stats (leaving the secret things secret).

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actually we also sell laser weapons, well blasters, but it's all the same

I sell charged particle weapons, a more efficient version of lasers.

Oh man! Where were you guys when I was asking if anybody sold laser weapons?!?

Please give me the links to your stuff and I'll check it out.

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My store is here: http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=42242

At the bottom of the first post is where the future tech stuff is

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could someone please help me ? explain all this gun purchasing and war things ? i dunno about it, and why/how should i buy guns ? im a n00b in the game btw :D ( if yeh want to answer, please telegram me! )

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We'll take 100 of the sniping rifles.

1 million wired.

Confirmed.

Wow; sooo many errors.

Well, lets start with the fact they your power source is, well, anti-matter. Not only is this an obscene hazard(powercell damaged? Say goodbye to half that city you were trying, and any elements of your military nearby), but it's more advanced than the reactor powering many a space-nation's fleets, so it oughta be damn-well expensive.

Now, the power per pack; I'm assuming you mean 8.79X10^7 megajoules? That's 24'416'666 kilowatt hours, or, at current market prices,
about $1'465'000 worth of electricity. And you're selling it in an exotic, small, lightweight battery for $100?

"The guns fire laser bursts, about the length of bullets, but wider and in light and heat form so that they aren’t affected by the properties of gravity or windspeed."

This also leads me to belive you probally don't know what a laser really is. It's a beam, of light, traveling at 300'000 km/sec. It does damage when the light hits, is absorbed by, and superheats what it hits. Lasers, by their nature, are unaffected by wind and gravity(well, not to any degree that'll matter for this application). Also, beam diamiter should be smaller than 1mm; lasers work by concentrating lota of energy on a tiny spot; large beam diamiter does not a good laser make.

Oh, yes, they also have two nasty drawbacks; modern thermal insulating ceramics and reflective surfaces protect very well against lasers, and fog/dust/smoke are all but impenitrible barriers.

"as it was very hard to get the bullets to fire, as well as the problems that Earth-made guns are designed to deal with gravity."

Contrary to popular belife, gunpowders contain an oxidizing agent(not enough air could get into the powder if it didn't), so they'd fire just fine in a vacume. As for gravity, adjust the sights because you no longer have to deal with bullet-drop; any trooper can do that in the field.





Anyway, I'm going to bed.