Star Trek Phasers for GURPS?

[Agemegos]

Originally Posted by cmdicely

The best model for the way it seems to work in canon -- i.e., doing whatever the plot needs that can be justified by beam-weapon SFX -- is probably a a gadget with a Cosmic, Physical-only, focus-limited (things that can be justified by dumping energy into the target without any manipulation more than aiming the phaser, explicitly including Unconsciosness Affliction, which might be marginal by that description)

Causing a body to vanish without a very large cloud of vapour (and, if you do it rapidly, an explosion) cannot be justified by dumping energy into the target. But phasers can clearly do that.