Recoil calculus

[Dark Hellion]

Since when is feasibility a problem in sci-fi. Most sci-fi is completely implausible and unfeasible. It is based on being cool. If you want to go ahead with the gauss rifle. Gauss rifles are cool. Use whatever stat you want and just make up somekind of recoil suppresion system that works on an unknown priniple. Thats what I do. It gives a great deal of leway and allows for implauible ideas to work out plausible. Try it, its your universe do whatever you want.

[Kuroneko]

Since when is feasibility a problem in sci-fi. Most sci-fi is completely implausible and unfeasible. It is based on being cool. If you want to go ahead with the gauss rifle. Gauss rifles are cool. Use whatever stat you want and just make up somekind of recoil suppresion system that works on an unknown priniple. Thats what I do. It gives a great deal of leway and allows for implauible ideas to work out plausible. Try it, its your universe do whatever you want.

Personally, I find sci-fi more enjoyable if I can see it working "in theory", even if an engineer will have a hissy fit if asked to built it (e.g. fusion, antimatter, etc.). Otherwise, it becomes less sci-fi, and goes into the realm of either fantasy or Treknobabble (depending on the approach taken).

But hey, perhaps it's only me.

[The Nomad]

At that velocity, it will be a surprisingly short-ranged weapon. The enormous air friction will create a plasma bow wave that will vapourize the insignificant 1g projectile before too long. It should look cool, though. Like a white-hot blaster bolt.

I knew I had forgotten something : I want the bullets to be made of a frictionless material ( friction still exists but is so small you can almost neglect it ). Would this be good for penetration capacity ?
Besides, bigger projectiles ( the size of a current handgun bullet ) have their own deflection/penetration fields, shields and guidance systems...

Such a high speed is required in order to use personnal-shield penetrators and out-race interceptors ( small projectiles, portable devices or semi-sentient drones that shoot incoming projectiles using low-powered ( KW-MW range ) lasers, simple collision or whatever means necessary ).

Do not bother about the "explosive", it's not chemical but a derivative of a wonder-material ( purely artificial and AI-designed ) called eskaleneium which can store energy with 0.00001% loss ( and thus its mass increase, alpha-class eskaleneium cristals can store up to 10 000 times the equivalent of their rest mass in energy - convert it through E=mc² yourself, knowing that a typical portable cristal can weight 500 g - though portable alphas are exceedingly rare and expensive, and at maximum storage capacity, they're very heavy ). I'm not looking for major realism here...

[Admiral Valdemar]

Teflon coated bullets should do the trick.