[Supers] A More Scientific Golden Age

[Prince Charon]

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

The conventional guns will fail rapidly if used for multiple shots. Even if they aren't machine guns you're still trying to use air-cooled weapons where there is no air. Water-cooled guns need to be redesigned to keep the water in until it boils off. Also to keep the water above freezing and below boiling when that might be the local temperature due to solar heating or lack there of.

This requires a lot of experimentation, which is what they're doing. It's just a question of how fast problems are solved compared to the problems with other designs. Big radiator fins or discs are a possibility, especially as the sights need to be elevated anyway.

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

The rocket guns might be okay but the projectiles will probably spray propellant residue onto the user's faceplate. Vented gasses from the conventional guns will be very hot and very high velocity and might be dangerous to soft spots in space suits.

That depends on the design of the weapon. RL rocket guns (by which I do not mean the ones that failed on the market) tend to be big, bulky, single-shot things that have a long tube that directs the rocket exhaust behind the user. Smaller rocket guns would also need to redirect the exhaust, but that is easily within their technological capabilities (easier than dealing with the heat from regular guns), without even talking to mad scientists about it. They will also need to deal with heat, but that's to be expected and is being studied.