Scott Kellogggg's design for the hand meson gun reminds me of a weapon I
designed using the old Striker rules -- the 35mm snub pistol firing
Californium collapsing fusion rounds. My high-school chem teacher and I
worked out the yield for a Californium round stuffed with deuterium. It came
to about 100 kilotons. It was a really great weapon; only carried 1 shot . . .
I'll have to see if I can design it using FF&S.
The posts about languages made me consider an interesting fact: if you go by
numbers of speakers, the "proper" form of English on Earth is that spoken in
India! This has some relevance to the Imperium -- a form of Vilani or Gal-
anglic might be very widespread, yet very hard for native Vilani or Anglic
speakers to understand. This could be particularly important in campaigns
using "frozen characters" awakening in the New Era.
"Does anyone here speak English?"
"Yarzur, mo shpaak naglakh!"
Jim Cambias
Misusing My Wife's Internet Account
At Duke Bio