SCIENCE FICTION WEAPONS – Terrible Writing Advice

Square cube law would NOT make big creatures impossible. It's such an easy thing to work around - Their structure is relatively tougher. There. It's logical that a monster the size of a building doesn't have the bones of a normal wolf. Especially when people are shooting at it. I hate when people bring up the Square cube law because it doesn't apply most of the time. We've had trees taller than buildings, so how are they defying physics? Simple. big Trees aren't made from animal bone.

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Okay I just want to say if u have a giant massive mech that could level a city and u lose to some blue alien with stick and stone as a weapon then u might as well built giant thruster on your home planet and aim directly to the sun

You forgot the part where the guns are always bullpup (if they have a magazine)

You know what I find. Funny all this stuff about what types of guns we might use in the future might be an accurate, but we probably still will use some form of range projectile because for just about all of human history advancements in weapons have at least in some part. Then how can we make this thing move faster to kill the enemy
From what is essentially a spear throwing dog ball thrower to slingshots to arrows to muskets
Humanity has loved putting weapons through the enemy's head at a distance

So now you’re telling me The empire that Ken invented the ship, the faster than light and having super robot and laser plasma, guns, and power suit Cannot defeat a alien Native American With a stick😂

Lightsabers are basically sci fi swords that fight against ranged weapons.

I feel like your small comments on Halo are a straw man….in Halo the UNSC only started experimenting with advanced laser technology when they encountered the Covenant, reverse engineering the technology. We have no evidence of the UNSC having plasma or laser weapons before the Covenant, so of course they’ll be using more conventional weaponry.

This makes me deeply appreciate "Dune."

turns out though that plasma weapons actually are technically possible, they just require a metric ass-ton of electricity to power and are incredibly inefficient

A lot of authors seem to forget that arms treaties and MAT are good work arounds for weapons that would be too destructive for the narrative.

Frank Herbert’s Dune and UC Gundam do this really well in regards to nukes and some other wmd types, if anyone wants some good examples.

if the only way for you to enjoy mecha is if they completely adhered to contemporary non-fiction technology from (usually) centuries before the story's setting, then i'm sorry, but you're duller than rocks and grits. you know why a zaku is popular? because it's an interesting and characterful design. the action is great. if petty technicalities which aren't at all relevant to the plot get to the point where they inhibit the ability to write the plot then they shouldn't be worried about.

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Well, I made a solution to the Sci Fi weapons issue. Just use conventional guns that use bullets that are just upgraded and optimized for combat. Or utilize a super heated goo that’s shot out at high enough velocities to maintain a shape and be able to kill someone. Also why blow up the entire planet when you could, I don’t know, fire a superheated beam of heat and light that just ignites the atmosphere and glasses the surface that way you can rebuild the planet’s ecosystems and population in your own image. But all of this is coming from a nerd who has common sense and thinks an algorithm designed to help humanity but then determines it must eliminate humanity and all life form the galaxy in the year 2135

The history with germany "cleverly" going through belgium us basically the French thinking "oh yeah they'd never do that, if they tried Britain would join the war and they would be guarantteed to lose"

And then they did and we joined and beat them :)

Alien primatives beating the space country actually makes sense. The alien primitives just want to be left alone, and the cost of one side's weapons means that their cost of war is likelly to be high enough relative to the value of this specific planet, that its not worth it if they can actually destroy any of the more advanced civilisation's stuff. Modern war is expensive, and honestly, often times it wouldn't be worth the hassle.

What’s funny with swords in sci fi is that swords were pretty much never effective in war as more range almost always equals better. Like seriously, I’m not even talking about guns or bows. Lances, literal spiky sticks were more effective than swords.

On the contrary, to make sci-fi weapons realistic, make all firearms and artilery in all types as railguns that aren't just sniper rifles and tank cannons.

They’re already developing laser resistant coatings for fighter jets and missiles, so lasers as point defense doesn’t make sense in the future.

Also portable rail guns won’t work. Not because of power, but because they destroy the barrels after just a few dozen shots. The navy is moving away from rail guns for this reason.

what an epic imperial guard moment

Man just shits on Avatar, Very nice

Yeah, avatar was a damn stupid movie.

High speed drive by poping the garbage chute and killing lotta people on a planet

The Square- cube law is certainly applicable concerning current tech
However, mecha tech is rarely normal thus it wouldn't apply.

Laser weapons having knock-back is not actually completely absurd. Photons do not have mass, but they do have momentum and energy. Because of this, the same momentum of the photons released from a laser weapon will also be given to the weapon itself, in the opposit direction. With momentum being equal to the mass * speed, the weapon will receive a speed depending on the mass (smaller mass => bigger speed) of the weapon and the momentum of the released photons.

Ok idea for an actual super-weapon that could maybe work
Get something to open up a massive hole in the planet from the surface to the core, and with the pressure of the core some bad stuff would almost certainly happen

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I'd like to know if there's any merit in letting more advanced weapons fall short of being useful due to poor skill. For instance, US calvary troops at Little Bighorn ran out of ammo quickly because they had a habit of taking fistfuls of cartridges and setting them on the ground because that's what they used to do at the firing ranges while they trained. When the Native Americans came up fast as hell with their guns, the soldiers would fall back leaving tons of unused bullets on the ground.

Also when Custer decided to take the high ground on his hill, it was way easier for the NAs to arc arrows above the hilltop and rain them down from above than push up the hill.

In Star Wars, there is an explanation why there isn’t nuclear weaponry the explanation is their shields are very effective against nukes, and that they’re essentially just firecrackers compared to super weapons, which is a stupid explanation, I know

In my thing we created a thing called energy accelerators/ hyper energy accelerators that accelerate energy at high speed to get a blaster like effect alkin to the blaster weapons in Star Trek

Lazers actually do have recoil, but it's tremendously low thus often ignored

I don't know much about Star Wars out of the films, so I don't know if there's a canon explanation to why only Force users have lightsabers to battle, but I know an intuitive one. It may be that anyone else could use lightsabers, but without higher reflexes using the Force to see the near future, they're are useless against ranged weapons.
Edit: this doesn't explain why so few people use lightshields, maybe for the material cost or something.

"Really? Swords and speedster robots in sci-fi? Booooo, disbelief not suspended!"
Meanwhile: switchblade drones and R9X missiles

With the sword in a gun fight thing. I really like what Dune did. Your shield blocks only fast moving objects like bullets. But you can always hit a person with slow and precise knife attack

So funny

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I've watched enough horror movies set in space. If I get sent to space I'm staying strapped.

I will argue the defense of the native people, I know some people didn't like the ewoks (I though they were adorable) but honestly there is actually. As pointed out the material is often the cheapest an entire legion could afford. So while it seems like sticks & rocks are silly compared to actual guns, getting smacked by one, even in a helmet still hurts! And you're using that same kind of force you know have a helmet that's also smacking against you with said rock. Same with tree trunk traps. The fact they are tiny and blend into the lush green forest as oppose to the storm troopers with bright white armor, makes them harder to hit.

The Empire is used to having people cower or fight with traditional warfare. But are left unprepared for unconventional & improvised means. In one Power Ranger season Bulk & Skull were able to handle themselves in a fight against some of the mooks the rangers struggle with, because the mooks were expecting/made to fight actual fighters not bumbling antic of 2 of the three stooges.

People tend to forget one of the reasons why us Americans were able to win the war of Independence against British is also because we were the underdogs that were ill equipped who had to use make shift weapons, unconventional ideas & stealth against the royal army dressed in bright red.

A laser gun would have a kick. Because light has momentum.

My guy, Star Wars DID have them fire a nuke at the super weapon.

Step one: rap moon in tin foil
Step two: put big pole on one side and another (electrified) big pole on the other
Step three: put a big copper ring in space and electrify that too
Step four: H Y D R O G E N
Step five: pew

Hmmm? What is a “danger close”?

A futuristic and reallistic weapon is more about more explosives with less cost production.
After all, explosives can damage throught soft buildings, large groups of enemies, don't need very high accuracy, and most of them are easy to transport or they transport themselves,
Another futuristic and reallistic weapon is simple poison/bioweapons. Just contaminate water, air or food source and you almost win the war without risking any man if done correctly

“Don’t worry. The general has played a lot of StarCraft. He knows what he’s doing” XD this is very funny

making a gun that cant shoot because of the very thing that is supposed to make it more advenced, psycho pass bullshit stuff..thats just mind blowing how they are still using them after like nothing happened XD