[akenbosch]

beamz are a stream of hypercompressed gas mixed with particles, usualy of the radioactive sort.

*looks at wingmen with third eyes, extra noses, and fish-like appearances*

time to switch to tachyons...

[TrashMan]

"My god! Steve just got shot in the head!"
"Which head?"

Meh..I say GRAVITRONS ...Or a friggin laser on a moon

[akenbosch]

gravitrons? you could do that with $Mass: -10000 just as easily!


edit: we better get on topic...karas already locked one!

[TrashMan]

Hm..if you set mass to like 100000000, can you push a destroyer?

[Snail]

The thread that kara locked was stupid. It degraded into spam in the fifth post or so.

Beams are photon-based.

[akenbosch]

light photons? but those travel at the speed of light! it has to be gas! why else would it be colourful?

anothe rproblem is the warmup/warmdown. what are those particles it sucks in and concentrates into the beam? and where do they go during warmdown? into the ship for energy reserves, or back out into space?

[Kie99]

Hm..if you set mass to like 100000000, can you push a destroyer?

Yeah....its fun to set your Mara to Mass 10000000 for Into the Lions Den and watch the Sathanas get destroyed when it hits you.

[akenbosch]

what would snipes say?

[TrashMan]

It's Superman! 

[Snail]

RAM! RAM! RAM! Hit that Sathanas, pilot!!

[diceman111]

I think its popcorn, or clowns

[TrashMan]

I say.. wrong thread Dicy Ol' boy?  Care for a spot of tea?

[akenbosch]

we have earl grey, mary pink, carl red, and sandwhich bread. what would you care for?

[TrashMan]

earl gray, shaken, not stirrred


Eh..jsut got an idea...for my next project I'm going to have Alpha 1 push a planet! Gonna need a big planet.pof but it will be worth it to play bowling with shivans as pins!

[akenbosch]

beamz dont go forever...except with +weapon range: and a very large number. i'll give you the code for a streaming beam if you want, though.

[TrashMan]

I meant giving teh loki Alpha 1 is in 10000000000000 points of mass, speed and HP.

Then do some physical pushing. Either the planet will move, or Alpha 1 will get to know it's core up clsoe and personal!

[akenbosch]

*woosh*

*bump*

shivans: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-*hit*

alpha 1: WAHOO! another strike!

[jr2]

OK, back on topic:

I think the FS / SW lasers can be explained as a contained / and/or charged laser blast.  I know it is possible to contain or "stop" a laser, they have done it.  Whether or not it is possible to contain a pent-up amount of laser energy inside of soem sort of plasma and shoot it is another matter.  I think firing the plasma would be easy enough, but eventually the plasma would not contain the laser... hence the "laser's" max range, which would be based on the strength of the plasma field containing it.

[Grizzly]

Isn't such thing called a Xaser?

[jr2]

Not sure... Nope, that means "X-Ray" version of laser, ie, X aser, instead of L aser.  See here.

EDIT: Looky here:

Science fiction films special effects often depict laser beams propagating at only a few metres per second—slowly enough to see their progress, in a manner reminiscent of conventional tracer ammunition—whereas in reality a laser beam travels at the speed of light and would seem to appear instantly to the naked eye from start to end. Some fans claim that the "laser beams" shown in such movies are in fact other type of sci-fi weaponry, such as particle beams or plasma weapons.