From Beams to Tasers The Weapons of Science Fiction


© Johnnie Lohmann

As a continuation of last weeks articles, I have decided to tackle high tech weapondry. It is much harder to define the weapons of Science fiction, as they do not yet exist in any real form. Never the less I endeavored to compile a list which would include melee, projectile, chemical and energy weapons

BEAM WEAPON:Shoots a beam of energy.

BLASTER: A generic energy weapon that is a standard of sci-fi. Any number of effects have been proscribed to it.

CHEMICAL PROJECTILE: Uses a chemical reaction ie. gun powder to propel a projectile.

CHEMICAL PUMP:Sprays chemicals such as acids, flames, or in the case of non lethal, glues, or a liquid which quickly hardens, may also shoot nanites, etc..

CONVERSION WEAPON: Converts targets to energy

DESINTIGRATOR: Reduces part or all of a target to atoms.

MULTI SETTING WEAPON: May be "dialed" to any number of settings, usually limited to all energy, or all projectile

ELECTRO: Uses electricity to do burn-type damage, may also be used to do stun only damamge.

ENERGY DISRUPTOR: Disrupts energy fields in machines and living creatures.

FLETCHETTE: Shoots razor sharp needles

FORCE BLADE: A hand to hand energy weapon, which uses a force field cut opponents much in the way an ordinary blade would

FREQUENCY WEAPON: Damages a target with electromagnetic frequencies.

FUSION: This employs the fusing of two items to create a dangerous effect.

GAUSS: Uses magnets to propel projectiles. This is a type of rail gun

GRAVITY WEAPON: Disrupts a targets gravity, destroying it.

GYRO WEAPON:A weapon best used at long range, fires self propelled rockets the size of bullets. At short range it is far less effective.

HYDROSTATIC SHOCK WEAPON: Causes hydrostatic shock in the target. Shockwaves are set off that destroy internal organs.

INCINERATOR: Does burning damage, likely either chemical or energy based

ION: Disrupts ions and shuts down eletically based machinery

LASER: This uses a concentrated beam of light to burn the target.

LASER BLADE: Uses a laser as the melee weapons blade

LASER LANCE: Like the laser blade, but longer

NEURO: Damages the nervous system

PARTICLE ACCELERATOR: Lethally accelerates the targets atoms

PHASER: Like the blaster a generic sci-fi weapon with various effects

PULSE: Uses pulses of energy to do damage

RAIL GUN: Propels projectiles from bullets to grenades by use of magnets

SLOW SPEED PROJECTILE: A slow projectile that can penetrate speed based force fields.

STASIS: This puts the target into stasis

STAT PENETRATORS: Like the Gyro weapon but initial velocity matches final velocity

STUNNER: A non-lethal stun damage only weapon, more generic sci-fi fare

TANGLER: Non-lethal, entangles the victim with strands of restrictive material, also called a wire weapon

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