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How about this? The ionization effects in the air caused by the first laser pulse tend to deflect the subsequent pulses, making them less accurate?

I just made that up.

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Nekira Sudacne wrote:but kinda remember, the planet as a whole is moving at thousands of miles a second. it it's NOT relative you'd be smacked into it instantly.

for that matter, Teleportation would put you out into space every time if it's not relative.

Qev

Why did the idea of a mini-iron-golem railgun just pop into my head?

Using the mini-iron-golems as ammunition, of course.

Qev

According to (I believe) the Rifts novel series, the Boom Gun isn't a conventional railgun at all. It's been a long time since I could remember what a coil gun is, so maybe this is the same thing, but in the novels they describe it as a "mass driver" which uses a pair of electromagnetic rings (the ...

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Nekira Sudacne wrote:the power is reletive the object your standing on. be it terra firma or a train.

How about the 'attach to arm' thing?

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Try archive.org?

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://ptt.rjferris.com

Wow, this forum really hates weird URLs; that's not a clickable link...

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Kreuzritter Puuh wrote:Though usually in my experiance,fan fiction quickly degenerates into 1st person furry pr0n .

You say that like it's a bad thing...

Google turns up a fair number of hits, though.

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Wait, wouldn't animate dead TW devices all require large knife switches, Jacob's ladders, thunderstorms, and maniacal laughter?

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Cripes... I think the highest level Palladium character I've ever had was like, third level or something. Level doesn't really mean so much in the game, anyway.

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Call it BS if you want, but since I have to check expansion coefficents to make sure that the insulators dont crack on the probes I stick in the plasma rocket I work with, and since I have gotten an M60 so hot I couldnt target cause of the heat shimmer off the barrel, I do think that heat would be ...

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Actually, this brings to mind a question I was going to ask about Create Force Field. Are fields created by this power always required to be stationary (relative to the Earth)? Or can they be 'attached' to a moving object? Eg. could one surround the top of their convertible car with a force-dome? Co...

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Maybe the weapon charges in the same manner as a recent development.. the very motion of the rifle itself causes a magnet to pass through a coil of wire, inducing a current that feeds into an internal battery. You'd need a Juicer shaking that sucker to recharge an e-clip with that technology... oh ...

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Well, personally, I'm of the opinion that bursts should get a bonus to hit, and reduced damage; and aimed shots should get a penalty to hit, but a bonus to damage...

But hey, I'm a dog. My opinion is wrong anyway.

By the way... do I have to pay admission for your sig?

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I'm curious, does anyone know where this term originated? I first heard it playing Champions back in the early '90s... still makes me giggle for some reason.

Qev

Well, one of my heroes had a gun-blued Delorian...

Another group I played in, the mad scientist of the group built a time machine (more dimension; it never did manage time travel) out of an Austin Mini Cooper (the real one, not this modern remade thing).

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Still the NG-57 for me. And since it's a heavy pistol, when you run out of e-clips, you can just throw the thing at them and still do decent damage.

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Of course lasers have recoil!

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I did and its pretty interesting. (By the way what is a coil gun) Wikipedia article discussing coilguns. And OMG, quench guns sound awesome. Where can I get one? The permanent magnet accelerator I encountered was effectively a clever combination of rare-earth magnets and an executive toy. Check it ...

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Qev, as for whether or not the weapons are coil guns or not, one must keep in mind that coil guns are not capable of putting as much power or are as efficent as rail guns. Given that the Boom Gun does the most damage of all, it most definitely has more power and thrust which would make it, IMO, a r...

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Just so you know, the US Army's (I think) standard issue assault rifle, the Armalite AR-15 (or whatever they're calling it now).... It's been an M16A2 for some time. It's basically identical to the M16A1 which was functionally identical to ( and base doff of ) the Russian AK-47. I've never heard of...

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larry. nothing says your name has to be reflective of what your powers are. my screen name was based on an Boss NPC from an old HU run. got nothing to do with his powers. I concur. My favorite HU character (a flying brick, invulnerability and sonic flight) called himself Extemporaneous Man... 'caus...

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Hehe, I would imagine all 'railguns' in Rifts are probably coilguns, including the Boom Gun, as the wear and tear on the rails would probably necessitate so much maintenance as to make them unwieldly. And hey, I'm sure they've got some pretty spiffy high-temperature superconducting magnets, which wo...

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Me and someone else batted this around for a while. There are ways to counteract the wearing of the rails; a frictionless superlubricant that conducts the electric current; high-temperature superconductors, etc. Just because we can't get over the heat and degradation problem doesn't mean Rifts-leve...

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I did know about the GMG entries for throwing objects, but I never recalled anything for handling catching. Thank you muchly.

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It's thought controlled... but you have to think all of the commands in Russian!

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So... I noticed they forgot the 'throwing objects as weapons' rules in HU2... or maybe I missed them somehow? Anyway... Are there any rules in existance for catching things? I mean, it's really a staple of superhero fiction that they catch stuff. An I-beam falls off of a construction crane, and Arac...

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Northern Gun NG-57 all the way, baby.

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I'd personally modify my weapons so that, once the e-clip is empty, a flag with the word "BANG!" pops out of the barrel.

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And how do they plan to do this? What keeps them cooperating with each other? Self-interest, I suppose. We've seen in such epic stories as Marvels' Acts Of Vengence that groups of evil characters just don't work well together in the long haul, especially not when "ruling the world" is at stake. Som...

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What Floops said. Or Mexico. Or Africa.

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No Qev... on the off chance your not being facetious Nekira was talking about how they manipulate the components. There able to do so because there bodys are out of phase (4th dimension?) as are SOME (probably the most important) of the components in the weapon. However that keeps people from modif...

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Im with Zero Kay. I think Qev is thinking of some sci journals a month or so back that reported a team of japanese scientists getting male salmon to be pregnant, what qev didnt read probably is that the blastocysts didnt survive past 7 days because the body could not support them. No, I've known ab...

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Nekira Sudacne wrote:
Qev wrote:Soylent Phase Beamer?

Of course. that way your gun doubles as emergency rations.

I am so using this if I ever run a Phase World campaign. That begs the question, though... can one digest phased food?

Qev

??? Are you kidding? Can you validate this with scientific proof and not just a really bad Arnold Schwartzeneiger movie? As far as I know, this is not true. I could be wrong, and may even concede the point if shown evidence. It's never, ever been done (malepregnancy.com notwithstanding ). But given...

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I'll stop nesting when you pull that bandwidth hog off the bottom of your posts. Come on, guys, it's called "being polite". Please stop quoting the entire thread like that. Back to the topic on hand, the CS getting its own solar system in the Three Galaxies would probably be one of the best things ...

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It doesn't make sense that the women are allowed to go into combat. The CS realizing that they need to breed in order to expand would, not necessarily treat women as second class but may cater to them all as queens. However IF they truely were trying to up the populace the women would all be kept w...

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gadrin wrote:HU Revised says the same thing: 40 square feet + 10 feet per level.

Ah, Palladium editing. We could not live without thee.

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I figured it would be a typo like that, yeah. A 40' diameter makes a lot more sense... I mean, what good is an 1800 SDC invisible, immobile beach ball, anyway?

Thanks, Glistam, everyone.

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Not necessarily. People are always afraid of AIs taking over and going rogue and such, but those are human ambitions. Computers have no ambitions. Computers as we know them have no ambitions. No one has any idea what a truly sentient program would behave like. I have my doubts that they would harbo...

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Phase Mystics have access to Phase powers... just like Prometheans. Not to mention magic can effect Phase abilities, as well. it's not phase abilites. it's their phase BODIES, pure and simple. Sooo... phase beamers are made out of Promethians? Soylent Phase Beamer? You can probably tell I'm not buy...

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Huh, not much of a "major" super power, in my opinion. Their metric conversion is off, too. That's 4.4 square meters, not 12.2 square meters. As it stands, then, at first level the user can make a force field bubble a whopping 3.5 feet in diameter. He'd need to be 8th level before he could even self...

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Phase Mystics have access to Phase powers... just like Prometheans.

Not to mention magic can effect Phase abilities, as well.

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Just curious for a bit of clarification here. Under 'Create Force Field', it states that the maximum size is 'approximately a 40 square foot area plus 10 ft per level'. Do they seriously mean 40 square feet, or do they mean 40' x 40' (ie. 1600 square feet)? A 40 square foot force field isn't even en...

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On a tangentally-related note, why hasn't phase tech been reverse-engineered all over the Three Galaxies?

It's called, uhhh.... Telemechanics? Hellooooo, Palladium...

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Josh Sinsapaugh wrote:According to Rifts canon: There is.

~ Josh

I shudder to think what the Deadboy armor for their hypercephalic genius types looks like.

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Josh Sinsapaugh wrote:Actually, as far as the CS are concerned, their is a guarentee: Genetic Engineering.

The CS can insure that a given offspring is intelligent.

~ Josh

Assuming that there is an 'intelligence gene' that can be fiddled.

Qev

A technological, illiterate society would stagnate, I should think. Maybe not immediately, but they'd eventually run into roadblocks. Sure, you have your educated 'elite core', but they don't live forever. How do you replace them? Certainly not from the illiterate masses, so perhaps you set up speci...

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Well, the only 'alien' I can think of that I've played in an RPG was this large, bizarre, many-bladed-limbs-and-tail dragonesque thing, that was actually a small amorphous blob that just tended to build bodies out of scrap MDC material and stray energy weapons. Seriously tended to weird out the rest...

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Post-It(tm) notes, fools!

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Being a sniper is cool. Everyone wants to be a sniper. But maybe 'sniping' in the modern sense just isn't possible against armored opponents in Rifts. Again, unlike any other time in 'history', the materials science is apparently far ahead of weapons science, meaning you're going to have to pummel a...

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