I think it might be fun to have a new gun - one that does not do hull damage, but rather adds mass to a ship when it hits. Basically something that shoots big globby plasma masses or something that would make a ship less maneuverable or possibly slower.

Of course, checking into a station should fix the ship up good and proper like.

Oh yeah - it should probably only be a large port weapon. If it's been suggested before, sorry for the dupe.

I want a new duck
One that won't try to bite
One that won't chew a hole in my socks
One that won't quack all night

I want a new duck
One with big webbed feet
One that knows how to wash my car
And keep his room real neat

One that won't raid the ice box
One that'll stay in shape
One that's never gonna try to migrate or escape
Or I'll tie him up with duct tape

I want a new duck
A mallard I think
One that won't make a mess of my house
Or build a nest in the bathroom sink

I want a new duck
One that won't steal a beer
One that won't stick his bill in my mail
One that knows the duck stops here

One that won't drive me crazy waddling all around
One who'll teach me how to swim and help me not to drown
And show me how to get down
How to get down baby

Get it?
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I want a new duck
Not a swan or a goose
Just a drake I can dress real cute
Think I'm gonna name him Bruce

I want a new duck
Not a quail or an owl
One that won't molt to much
One that won't smell too foul

One that won't beg for breadcrumbs
Hangin' around all day
He'd better mind his manners
Better do just what I say
Or he's gonna be duck pate, duck pate, yah, yah

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(lots of quacking sounds)

I want a wing commander I Rapier introduced into the game. It has the best shields in the galaxy and therefore is invunerable!

*reads specs*

Wait a minute, she may have gods own shields but she is armored like a light fighter, take out the shields and I'm no better off than a hornet!

Never thought about it like that!

I want the Tigers Claw

Gees Tumble...

This is not a song thread :p

reminds me of a suggestion someone made, a long time ago, about a water gun (fed with aquaeeinenineiineehoweveritswritten ore) wich, on contact with a ship turns to ice, adding mass. I think something like this could be quite an original weapon.

> I want the Tigers Claw

I don't. The Tiger's Claw got itself all blown up.

@tumble

I find you to be a person of exceptional musical taste. Well said.

you'd get blown up too if a squadron of stealth fighters appeared and fired torps at you! then what if you survived and no one believed you?! and they sent you to some god awful station with no action!! what then eh!!! EH!!!

@ tumble, theres a time and a place, for some mad reason, that was it, heh! nice one man.

Spence: Then you'd get a run of games with cheesy cutscenes. And some furry in a giant catsuit.

I guess I was just thinking it might be interesting to have a weapon that does something other than 'blow stuff up' or simply reduce hull integrety percentages. This would be a weapon that could possibly require unique strategies to defend against, etc.

I have to admit that I immediately began running possible Huey Lewis spoofs through my mind when I saw the title. Well done.

I like the idea of a different gun, but you'll need to explain to me how I can deliver an amount of water or plasma to my target without having had to have slowly and painfully hauled it to within range of them in the first place.

Oh that's easy for a bullsh*tter like myself.

It generates the plasma on the fly in pellet form - this specially formulated stuff (an Orion patented design) then reacts with a ship's armor on impact. the plasma, mixed with the metal in the hull bond in such a way that mass is increased.

or it could shoot magnetic pelets that are charged to attract all the random space dust that forms the basis if the "space junk" we can see floating around. as the dust collects on the pellets it adds mass and then when the charged blob of dust hits the hull of a ship it clings to it, thus adding mass to the ship.

Umm. iTripped, you need to go back to bullshitting school. You can't get mass out of nothing, regardless how much 'reacting' goes on.

Lord Q has more of an idea, but I don't think there'd be enough junk floating around to make much of a difference. :(

Okay, a different approach, same goal.

Have a weapon that uses Aquean ore in your cargo as ammo.

This would make the weapon much more effective in the larger cargo ships than in vessels with limited cargo capacity. As the ice hits, it rapidly adds mass to the targetted hull.

There. now you have tonnage on board, and a transfer mechanism to boot.

Come to think of it, if the weapon is a small port variety, this would make the Maud a very interesting ship.

Okay, if you are hauling the mass around as cargo in the first place, that works.

The magnet idea is iffy - the weapon would only work if there were ferrous debris present.

or the weapon could have a massive energy drain (or an ammo limitation) and it could use a form of replicator to convert stored energy into mass. (yes i know the amount of energy needed to create noticable amounts of mass would be astronomical, that's why i sugested the charged pellet idea first).

Or a gun with a built-in coup-counter =P