Sometimes you have to compromise on the calibre to achieve the necessary muzzle velocity.
Ranarama on the ST (and maybe other systems, I only saw the ST version) got that hugely right, first couple of shots feeble, second bunch big, messy, slow, third tighter, but still big, last couple look like first but cut through enemies like the proverbial hot knife through butter.
"My way is the way of not fighting":- the book of Enter the Dragon.
Vibrating, molecular thick chain moving at high speed might be good. I remember a Paranoia R&D item that was like this, and as soon as the protective field was shut off, it would drop down under gravity and slice straight through the ground on its way to the Earth's core, taking the hapless clones toes off in the process.
Imagine a gun that could fire repeated rounds of this stuff. It would go through massed ranks of Cyberwotzits and Dalthings like a hot cat through butter..and put more than a dent in the TARDIS.
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"Observation is the path to understanding. Self-observation is the path to self-understanding."
arron wrote:Vibrating, molecular thick chain moving at high speed might be good. I remember a Paranoia R&D item that was like this, and as soon as the protective field was shut off, it was drop down under gravity and slice straight through the ground on its way to the Earth's core, taking the hapless clones toes off in the process.
Imagine a gun that could fire repeated rounds of this stuff. It would go through massed ranks of Cyberwotzits and Dalthings like a hot cat through butter..and put more than a dent in the TARDIS.
How can you dent something that doesn't exist in this dimension?
Sealed with a curse as sharp as a knife. Doomed is your soul and damned is your life.
Driller wrote:How can you dent something that doesn't exist in this dimension?
I don't know. But I'm a scientist. I say we give it a try and see what happens...
[EDIT] I imagine that given the outer shell is in this dimension, the effect would be like cutting a creme egg in half, with the filling coming from a alternative dimensional planet on which the sea is creme egg filling (the white and yellow stuff). This would then result in our planet suddenly finding itself covered in creme egg filling (or TARDIS contents) to a depth of several miles. I guess it will be more fun for the kids who like sweets more than me.
Believe me, Easter will never be the same ever again..
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"Observation is the path to understanding. Self-observation is the path to self-understanding."
IIRC, the Earth isn't big enough to contain a fully operational TARDIS. Saying that though the Doctor's type 40 was last fully operational about a thousand years ago
Sealed with a curse as sharp as a knife. Doomed is your soul and damned is your life.
I wonder if there;s been a novel etc where someone went to the dimension where the interior of the TARDIS resides. After all it is dimensionally trancendental and supposedly fucking huge, I can imagine a huge fuckoff-sized Timelord docking structure about a billion AU large where every TARDIS interior is stored and each existing without coming into contact with another.
Talking out my arse as usual
Sealed with a curse as sharp as a knife. Doomed is your soul and damned is your life.
