RE: Re: [SG] Needle Weapons

Well, this arguement hinges greatly on individual definitions of what a
Needle Beam does.  The rounds you mentioned are 'safety rounds'
developed for use in thin-skinned environments.  They make a mess out of
flesh but will shatter even on household walls.

Great for home defense or use by teams operating in space stations or on
board a ship.

Eli

>Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 15:26:20 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Brian Burger <yh728@victoria.tc.ca>
>To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
>Subject: Re: [SG] Needle Weapons
>Reply-To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
>
>On 17 Apr 2001 KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de wrote:
>
>> >Absender: bkb@beol.net
>> > I was thinking that the needle weapons would be used primarily by 
>> > security and police rather than military. 
>> 
>> Just curious: Why do you think needle weapons would be especially 
>> suited for this purpose ?
>
>Less likely to cause property damage that conventional bullets?
>
>I could especially see this for spaceship/station security - you don't
>want to be punching holes in bulkheads.
>
>Aren't there already some sort of 'disintegrating' pistol round
available,
>for use on airplanes? Bullets strong enough to go thru flesh, but which
>shatter when they hit anything harder? You don't want holes in your
>pressure seal at 35,000 feet; you'd want them even less out in vacumn.
>
>Of course, this reasoning would make needle weapons degrade
significantly
>against any sort of body armour, especially the hardsuit & PA types.
>Perhaps give d8 or higher armour a free upward shift against needle
>impacts?
>
>Brian - yh728@victoria.tc.ca -
>- http://warbard.iwarp.com/games.html -

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