[Stryke 9]

I get sick of making spaceships easily. And yet, I suck at doing people, tools take all of four seconds, and I have all the cars I need. And so once in a while one of these comes along...



Jes' a laser rifle. Sort of a sharpshooting weapon, runs on an SLR system- the top bulb's a targeting laser, determines where the shot is gonna land, when you've got something sighted you pull the trigger, a special mirror flips, and the big sucker in the back fires. Silent, invisible on clear days, 100% accurate as far as you can see the pinpoint laser (no scope), fry your head clean off.

[mikhael]

Not bad. Looks to be a pain in the ass to carry though, unless that a vehicle mounted weapon? I like the SLR setup though. that's too groovy.

[Stryke 9]

Uh... ultralight materials?

Well, it's about one and a half times the size of the average SMG, and the main laser detaches (power source is a disposable fuel cell inside the drum; it needs to be detachable), so I don't know how much of a pain it would be.

[mikhael]

I was thinking more along the lines of being awkward to carry, not heavy. How does one carry that? In fact, how big is it compared to a human? It might be better, for pure human-factors reasons to turn the main laser drum on its side and pipe the laser to the muzzle in a different manner.

[Stryke 9]

Thought of that, actually... would be a bit odd, but for just toting it around there's the top handle, and for firing one would have it braced up against the shoulder to stabilize it (due to the light weight, not the nonexistent recoil), where the arm would go around the drum. I think. I'll take a look at it when I put it on a human figure- which'd be shortly after I get a working human figure, which'll be pretty much never or when I get Poser for around $50, whichever comes first.

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by Stryke 9
Thought of that, actually... would be a bit odd, but for just toting it around there's the top handle...

Top handle is definitely not around the center of gravity/balance/whatever - doesn't help to have a handle if all the weight's on one side.