Marines Weapons
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Frosty
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Probably not.
The amount of energy you'd need to feed into a laser to make it lethal to a human being probably will never be generated by anything small enough to carry in a gun.
And since you can't see a laser's beam, you can't tell if you're aiming properly or not. This is quite obvious to anyone who's ever done that little Buzz Lightyear ride in Disney World right outside Space Mountain. Everyone is shooting at these targets, and you can't tell which little red dot is who's, or if yours is even firing.
There's really no reason to replace slug-throwing technology with lasers.
The guns used in WC4 definitely hurl something. Probably some kind of plasma burst or something.
In WC 4, people are not disintegrated, but we only see Terran Weapons. I doubt that they would be allowed in the Geneva convention, I think it is a weapon that burns you from the inside. In WC 4, people that are getting hit start to blood from the mouth, and then just fall down, so I think they work somehow like weapons today.
The kilrathi weapons do disintegrate their targets, also Blair in WC3 in the losing sequence disappears after being hit, he gets vapourised, and in WC 1 the same thing happenes (but not to everybody, in the first sequence, the scientists are just shot down, these weapons work like the terran weapons)
Bob McDob
Better Health Through Less Flavor
Does anyone know HOW these lasers work, anyway? Lemme make a Star Trek comparison here (just for reference): In STIV, we see the imposter Kirk get disintegrated by a Klingon...disintegrator. Refresh my memory...do the Federation phasers work the same way? Which would, of course, be different from the lasers in Star Wars and other science fictionie shows?
Quarto
Unknown Enemy
I think the Marines use both energy-based and bullet-based weapons, including disintegrating weapons (see WC1).
As for disintegrating weapons, I don't think they could possibly hurt - your nerves are disintegrated at the same time as everything else
. Mind you, those fellas in WC3 did not sound too happy, but that was probably fear rather than pain.
As for disintegrating weapons, I don't think they could possibly hurt - your nerves are disintegrated at the same time as everything else
. Mind you, those fellas in WC3 did not sound too happy, but that was probably fear rather than pain.I don't know anything specific, but I think that in Star Wars and Wing Commander, these weapons are travelling much slower than the speed of light, so I would guess that the light is made slower and that the energy won by that process is used as the damage potential (that is a highly unscientific guess, but how would you else explain the low speed of the laser "projectiles"
There is definetly a difference between the star trek phasers (which fire continuously) and the star wars/wing commander lasers, which fire short bursts. But don't ask me about the science...
BTW, when is Kirk disintegrated in STIV??? cannot remember that.
Bandit LOAF
Long Live the Confederation!
We don't have specific information on how the lasers work -- just that they're much slower than actual light, and pack much more of a punch.
As for Marine weapons... there are a whole bunch. For shipboard work, Marines *generally* use bullet-based weaponry... for planetary stuff they have a variety of energy weapons, based on similar concepts as the fighter stuff -- lasers, neutron guns, mass-drivers... there *are* also guns which disintigrate a target -- they show up in WC1 in use by both the Terrans and the Kilrathi.
As for Marine weapons... there are a whole bunch. For shipboard work, Marines *generally* use bullet-based weaponry... for planetary stuff they have a variety of energy weapons, based on similar concepts as the fighter stuff -- lasers, neutron guns, mass-drivers... there *are* also guns which disintigrate a target -- they show up in WC1 in use by both the Terrans and the Kilrathi.
Bandit LOAF
Long Live the Confederation!
No, the shields will compensate for tiny holes -- but not so much large segments getting ripped apart by a neutron gun. <G>