Re: COLONIAL WEAPONS

Scott Clinton Wrote:

>The point remains that you are accepting a weapon system that is at
very
>best a decade or so away from protype use to one that can be produced
today
>(albit with several limitations).

Following that logic, it should stand to reason that a longbow is a
better 
combat weapon than an assault rifle (after all, the AR toook SO much
longer 
to develop).  Limitations on a weapon due to it's particular nature are 
different than limitations based on the technological level of it's
makers.

>>Sure.  If you want, just give your settlers Cyborg Psionic Implants.
>>Those should be just as plausible, right? ;-)
>
>No, last I heard "psionics" are not CURRENTLY in use in reality.

True, but To Each His Own would imply that anything someone wants to
play 
should be made plausible for the game.	My point was merely that for any

given gaming background, it is possible to insert certain limitations to
any 
technology.  The issue of optics sensitivity is definitely as plausible
for 
a given background as the idea of a laser robust enough not to be
sensitive.

>Again, all
>it takes is a few "leaps" in LASER tech to make your issues mute.

Perhaps more robust laser will make the issue less pressing, but as long
as 
the weapon relies on optics, there will always be a chance that they
become 
jarred, they will probably require precision to retune if jarred, and
they 
will probably still be more affected by jarring than any other
contemporary 
weapon system (Any other system of the same time period will be able to 
benefit from the same tech advances, and be based on a less
temperamental 
system).

>Whereas
>for things such as gauss weapons, they are not even developed enough
for
>anyone to say what their TRUE battlefield limitations might be (for the
>first generation) of weapons.

Although by that time, we should be well beyond first generation (unless

only lasers will be receiving further research?).

>And lets not even get into FTL travel vs robust LASER rifles and which
is
>more plausable...  :-)

Ummm..... I don't recall ever stating FTL was more plausible.  No Straw
Men, 
please.

2B^2

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