Do Meson Weapons have Limitations?

[jason taylor]

They seem to a point like a super wave motion gun. Yet almost everyone continues to field particle beams, fusion and plasma weapons, lasers and missiles long after they have the capacity for them, even in capital ships. What is the point?

If the missiles on the Tigress are a counterinsurgency module shouldn't they be deployable battledrones or sensors or "warsats" to coin an interesting phrase? If they are only shipkillers shouldn't it be an all big gun load out? If they are defense, does a Tigress really need defense missiles (lasers, whatevers) and will it get to a range where that is relevant?

Or do they try to maximize the killing capacity by using missiles and lasers as a shield of an attack and Meson guns as a foundation of something rather like a diekplous or periplous?

This has bothered me for some time and it makes it look like the whole concept of Meson weapons is overthrowing the system.


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