RE: Sandcasters, was [FT] Vector...

>the sand cloud. Optics don't like getting additional bits of silica
>smashing into it at high speed.

Nor does *anything* moving fast through such a cloud
including hyper velocity projectiles from railguns. A dense
enough cloud to attenuate beams would also ablate anthying
moving through it at a high velocity.

tim jones
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