07-20-2015, 04:51 PM | #31 |
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Re: How to go about making an Ultra Tech Bow
There's really no reason to favor a bow over a compressed air weapon or properly designed silenced chemical weapon; in the end, you have a device that propels a heavy projectile at a low velocity, and we have better energy storage systems than bending elastic materials nowadays.
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07-20-2015, 07:54 PM | #32 | ||
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07-20-2015, 08:39 PM | #33 |
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07-20-2015, 09:56 PM | #34 | |
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Reason seven, logistics. A local warlord might prefer making bows out of advanced materials to acquiring advanced weapons and the greater offworld dependance that goes with it. His men might also find it easier to use. And if they totemize techniques as warrior cultures often do, having a new version of a weapon they are familiar with has cultural advantage.
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07-21-2015, 01:23 AM | #35 |
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Re: How to go about making an Ultra Tech Bow
if you need to make U/T bows desirable just make guns basically illegal for anyone except the military but do to loopholes in the law the smart plastic folding bow with grav slicer arrows is perfectly legal. Real world weapons laws are often sillier than that,
Even citizens militia units would use them since they can't get guns or ammo at the legality class and no one much is familiar with them anyway. If the hypothetical nation/planet/whatever polity is mostly peaceful, people might never see firearms except at military parades or in books but other weapons would be basically ubiquitous used for defense and hunting and lots of things, |
07-21-2015, 09:35 AM | #36 | |
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But sure, even now the majority of weapons are probably sporting equipment, not for killing people. But note that nobody needs to *improve* bows for that. You can't buy armor piercing or explosive or whatever arrows unless bows are being used to kill people in armor, and that's never going to make much sense if guns are available at all. It's a genre convention you are trying to put a bit of plausibility gloss on, but it's never going to be very plausible, so don't contort the back story too much in the effort to provide more than a little gloss. For instance that militias with bows - guns are illegal but privately raised armies are OK - is going to need a *seriously* contorted back story.
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07-21-2015, 09:41 AM | #37 |
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Re: How to go about making an Ultra Tech Bow
IME it's not all that contorted. Certainly no more contorted than privately raised armies with rifles being OK but people with pistols (whether solo or in a private army) being not OK.
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07-21-2015, 09:41 AM | #38 |
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Re: How to go about making an Ultra Tech Bow
Is the bow for "RUle of Cool" or "Realism?"
Realistically, why use a bow when you can use a gun? If it's because a bow is cool, I would have a powered bow of some kind that has a kinetic draw that when pulled requires next to no strength, but when a charge is sent through the "String" is whips itself into heavy pull like a muscle, not relying on pulleys and tension, but electric pulses themselves. Essentially it'd just up the bow strength by whatever margin. I'm inclined to add whatever I had to in order to make it effective for the campaign. You can also have Superfine arrows of course, which would give +2 damage and armor divisor. Maybe some other technology could be employed to improve this, like hyper dense arrow heads with carbon shafts. Heck, you could even do blaster arrows. They certainly did this in Star Wars Clone Wars. http://a.dilcdn.com/bl/wp-content/up...Lineup-TCW.jpg Notice the strings themselves are energy and not strings? |
07-21-2015, 10:08 AM | #39 |
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Re: How to go about making an Ultra Tech Bow
TL12^ Quantum Archery
As with other implicate order interface (IOI) sports, the implanted web aligns the user's neuro-somatic system directly with the unified field. The 'bow' manifests a section of reality with a defined resiliency. The 'string' is an intercostal membrane joining the bow arc whose length is defined by the conviction the user can apply in the pseudo-dimension (defined by (Willx2+ST)/2). Aiming is an entirely neuro-somatic operation, so remains based on DX. 'Arrows' are extracted from a carried supply of plasmatter, and remain in an undefined eisen-state twinned to the user's implant web. Their exact capabilities emerge momentarily after launch based on a quick contest with the target's probability defenses, if any. Edit: Is it weird that I expect pretty much everybody here will be able to make some kind of sense out of that babble? Last edited by Donny Brook; 07-22-2015 at 07:02 AM. |
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If that's supposed to be a reference to US gun regulation, note that privately raised armies are only 'okay' to the sense of freedom of association. Any army-like way of using those rifles is very not okay.
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