Re: An idea for a new weapon (semi-OT]

Thomas Barclay wrote:
> 
> The URL below has a description of the impacts of Solar Storms and
> Flares on our worldwide power grids. Pretty eye opening.
> 
> http://www.mpelectric.com/storms/index.htm
> 
> This gives me some ideas for a nasty attack in the FT realm. (I think
> ST has used Solar Flares for direct attack on shipyards, and Niven
> did for shooting down spaceships, but no-one to my knowledge has
> thought of this twist yet):
> 

I always kind of liked the Sun Gun in Stellar Conquest.  You stimulated
a massive, sustained flare in the direction of where the enemy world was
going to be in however many years it would take the flare to reach it,
and sterilize whole planets!