Best energy-based sidearm

Tasoth · Post by **Tasoth** » 2004-02-01 08:33pm

DeLameter, hands down. Pencil thin beam that only effects one target to a wide beam that vaporises the target and the area of behind him.

Post by **fgalkin** » 2004-02-01 08:49pm

An F-Lance, a Deathwand, and the Noisy Cricket.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

Batman · Post by **Batman** » 2004-02-01 08:54pm

I'll throw in the Earthforce PPG just on general principles. Plus, it's conceilable as hell.
@Hrogge: They have KNK pistols now? No wonder I stopped reading the stuff.
Though a pistol kombilader sounds nifty...

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2004-02-01 10:24pm

My favorite is probably the Zat. But I'd prefer to have an E-11 in an actual firefight. The Noisy Cricket would be good for amusement, though.

Morat · Post by **Morat** » 2004-02-01 10:59pm

I'll throw in the Earthforce PPG just on general principles. Plus, it's conceilable as hell.

With the F-Lance, you could carry it in plain sight and nobody would know it was a weapon.

I noticed that a lot of people chose the Star Wars blaster pistol. What makes them so useful?

Batman · Post by **Batman** » 2004-02-01 11:09pm

Morat wrote:
I'll throw in the Earthforce PPG just on general principles. Plus, it's conceilable as hell.
With the F-Lance, you could carry it in plain sight and nobody would know it was a weapon.

Doubtful. While people would not neccessarily identify it as a firearm, its presence WILL raise questions. Because its presence is visible (unless we're talking within a trenchcoat). Why, exactly, are you carrying a rubber baton/lightsabre/whatever?

I noticed that a lot of people chose the Star Wars blaster pistol. What makes them so useful?

Because for a sidearm it carries power like nobody's business?

Morat · Post by **Morat** » 2004-02-01 11:49pm

Doubtful. While people would not neccessarily identify it as a firearm, its presence WILL raise questions. Because its presence is visible (unless we're talking within a trenchcoat). Why, exactly, are you carrying a rubber baton/lightsabre/whatever?

I thought the 'laughing out loud' smiley would be an indication that I wasn't entirely serious.

Still, people would raise eyebrows, but I doubt anyone would actually ask you about it. At least where I come from, you could walk around with a pink lawn flamingo and nobody would stop you to ask about it.

Because for a sidearm it carries power like nobody's business?

But what would you do with that power? The blaster pistol wouldn't be especially effective against people (compared to a phaser on wide beam, a Zat, or a Force Lance).

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2004-02-02 12:36am

Tribun wrote:An E-11 does the job.

A weapon that size is a carbine of submachine gun, it's hardly something you could call a sidearm.

Shaidar Haran · Post by **Shaidar Haran** » 2004-02-02 12:47am

Raxmei wrote:Don't plasma pistols blow up one out of six times? They're pretty powerful, but using them is like playing Russian roulette.

Let me guess, game stats?

Black Admiral wrote:Nope. They're actually remarkably reliable; Hark's didn't ever blow up, and he used it for years.

Not to mention there are a number of other characters that used them as a prefered side arm and never had the problem. Though given the Imperium getting them from a quality source would probably make a big difference in their reliability. Plasma weapons are supposedly harder to make than stock las-rifles and what not.

Black Admiral · Post by **Black Admiral** » 2004-02-02 11:55am

Shaidar Haran wrote:Not to mention there are a number of other characters that used them as a prefered side arm and never had the problem. Though given the Imperium getting them from a quality source would probably make a big difference in their reliability. Plasma weapons are supposedly harder to make than stock las-rifles and what not.

I think Hark's was a Ryza pattern one, as the plasma weapons built on Ryza tend to be much more reliable, more effective, and generally better than ones built on, say, Gryphonne IV.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2004-02-02 07:38pm

zat gun baby!

It just looks fucking cool, and has the best sound effect of all.

Macross · Post by **Macross** » 2004-02-02 08:35pm

I have always liked Han Solos DL-44.

LobsterZoidberg · Post by **LobsterZoidberg** » 2004-02-02 10:20pm

Pulse Pistol. Always liked the Peacekeeper aesthetic taste in weaponry, and it's deadly enough for anything I'm gonna need it for.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2004-02-03 02:11am

Phaser pistol. It would be so worth it to see physics professors' heads explode when I make things magically disappear.

And then of course there's stun setting for those bastards asking obnoxiously stupid questions in class.

Robert Walper · Post by **Robert Walper** » 2004-02-03 02:56am

I don't give a damn what anyone says, I think a phaser would still be frigging cool. I think the Voyager era hand phasers actually look quite decent. I'd be spending hours shooting things, testing wide beam settings, heat settings, vaporizing things, etc. My ultimate goal would be to have the ability to recharge the sucker, that way I can test the phaser on maximum setting wide beam...see if it actually does take out half a building.

Equinox2003 · Post by **Equinox2003** » 2004-02-03 04:16am

Mine is the SW blaster pistol. For too many reasons to list.

Robert Walper · Post by **Robert Walper** » 2004-02-03 04:18am

Equinox2003 wrote:Mine is the SW blaster pistol. For too many reasons to list.

Can your blaster vaporize an entire truck in a single shot?

Lancer · Post by **Lancer** » 2004-02-03 01:49pm

Robert Walper wrote:
Equinox2003 wrote:Mine is the SW blaster pistol. For too many reasons to list.
Can your blaster vaporize an entire truck in a single shot?

I'd like to make a note that the only big difference between the 29th century phaser and the Voy phaser (pistol grip aside) is that the 29th century one vaporized things faster.

TrekWarsie · Post by **TrekWarsie** » 2004-02-03 02:34pm

I'd choose a Zat for the reason that in a home defense situation, if the assailant took one of my family members hostage, I could still subdue him. I'd shoot my family member but one shot doesn't kill and its effect carries over to the assailant which would result in the assailant being incapacitated. I then shoot the assailant one more time to neutralize his threat.

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2004-02-03 03:35pm

The Soft Weapon from Known Space, assuming that I can convince it that I'm not It's Enemy.

Post by **NecronLord** » 2004-02-03 03:39pm

A trek phaser could do those too.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2004-02-03 05:00pm

NecronLord wrote:A trek phaser could do those too.

But does a trek phaser look as cool as a zat gun? Didn't think so.

Crazedwraith · Post by **Crazedwraith** » 2004-02-03 05:03pm

NecronLord wrote:A trek phaser could do those too.

The Zat has the advantage of ergonomics. Also its just plain cooler.

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2004-02-03 05:04pm

TrekWarsie wrote:I'd choose a Zat for the reason that in a home defense situation, if the assailant took one of my family members hostage, I could still subdue him. I'd shoot my family member but one shot doesn't kill and its effect carries over to the assailant which would result in the assailant being incapacitated. I then shoot the assailant one more time to neutralize his threat.

You'd already incapacitated the criminal. This could probably be called excessive force to kill him when he's already completely unable to move.

Post by **NecronLord** » 2004-02-03 05:25pm

SyntaxVorlon wrote: You'd already incapacitated the criminal. This could probably be called excessive force to kill him when he's already completely unable to move.

Third shot disposes of the evidence.

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