Things TLs 7-9 would be interesting to see WITHOUT

[Lord Carnifex]

Originally Posted by Nymdok

Energy = Weaponry. I cant think of any situation where that is not the case.

Mechanical - Melee
Chemical - Bullet
Atomic/Nuclear - Nuke
Optic - Laser
Thermal - Steamships
Electrical - Taser


Solar could be and exception. I cant think of a single weapon in history that has been solar powered.....

That could be endemic to the human tendency to provide their own competition.

Nymdok

In many cases, it's because the process to release a lot of energy in an uncontrolled fashion is discovered first. It's only after that process is investigated, better understood, and then controlled and harnessed does it move from weapon to energy. It's a lot easier to explode TNT and use that as a weapon than it is to harness exploding gasoline vapours and turn them into an internal combustion engine.

That being said, as I recall, the Manhattan Project had a working reactor (the squash court at Columbia University comes to mind, but I could be incorrect). But, they were looking for a bomb, so a bomb is what they built.