New firearms technology

This came across the ether this morn.
Jay

SJ Games Daily Illuminator (http://www.sjgames.com/ill/)
December 5, 2000: Bangbangbangbangbang
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An Australian inventor has developed technology that can allow a
machine-gun
to fire at a rate equivalent to a million rounds a minute. Think about
security systems, robot assassin drones, point defense against incoming
missiles . . . Here's the Scientific American story
 http://www.sciam.com/1999/0499issue/0499techbus2.html ).
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Subject: Re: Wombat of Retribution
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The story of the MS Hokkaido Maru, now "Wombat of Retribution"
is to be found at
http://www.warpfish.com/jhan/ft/Archive/2000/jan00/msg00655.html

Actually this would make a rather neat StarGrunt scenario.

BTW Names of OUDF Auxiliaries are usually formed by
<insert name of furry animal>
of
<insert name of concept involving the future>

Hence "Potto of Destiny", "Wallaby of Fortune", "Bilby of Fate", "Koala
of
Nemesis"

I haven't made any stats for the former Hokkaido Maru yet, but she would
have started
out as a Free Trader from FB1 before any modification. She got badly
dinged
up in
the many rammings - er - accidental collisions - and had some of the
cargo
space replaced
by armour.