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  • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    And if the thing is activated, that is “fired”.

    Not really as it is always on, this is not a gun. It is a fire-hose that cannot be turned off. While you are "pointing it at the target it is still laying waste to everything it points at on the way to the target.

    This is not a precision weapon, this is a destroy a massive area weapon.

    And what I am saying is that it would be impossible to defend.

    If the opposition had assets in orbit as well, destroying it would require no effort at all.

    This is not something that can be retrofitted as it would have to be precisely designed to work at all.

    I understand that all that can be hand waved away if you are not writing hard SF but there are plenty of other weapons that would be much easier to design, use and protect.

    If you are going to ignore all that, just go with a fusion powered death ray.