Trope-a-Day: BFG
BFG: Oh, several. Let’s start with “that created by any excuse to shove antimatter rifle-grenades in your sluggun (see: Abnormal Ammo) or battle carbine and cut loose”, shall we? There are also a...
View ArticleYou Can’t Sheathe It, Either
“Excuse me? Could you tell me why this sword is so highly priced?” “Ah, that’s because this is a mollyblade. The edge is single-layer graphene, less than a nanometer thick. It’ll slice cleanly...
View ArticleTrope-a-Day: Hand Cannon
Hand Cannon: You can, indeed, fit some bloody powerful mass drivers into handgun-sized weapons, these days – although even with recoil compensation, etc., it helps to have some of those military-grade...
View ArticleThe Breakfast Of Champions
DROPSHIPS: EMPIRE OF THE STAR The final entry in this section, affectionately known to the Imperial Legions as the “Big Ugly Breakfast 1” – and less affectionately known to almost everyone else as...
View ArticleTrope-a-Day: IKEA Weaponry
IKEA Weaponry: There are a number of these, mostly analogous to their real-world equivalents. The exception is Eye-in-the-Flame Arms’s Puzzle Pistol, which is a 3D puzzle made from geometric chunks of...
View ArticleTrope-a-Day: Marked Bullet
Marked Bullet: You can actually buy gun add-ons to engrave the flechettes (with elegant and situationally relevant haiku, even, in the case of the Eye-in-the-Flame Warrior-Poet Gun) – granted, it’s too...
View ArticleYeah, Maybe Not That Short
Academician Sesca Galith stepped up behind the podium, and tapped it gently to begin. The audience quieted rapidly as she held up a wickedly-pointed poniard, of oddly-textured metal, with lights...
View Article…And The Strength Of The Wolf Is The Pack
The MMR-144 Parasol rockets launcher. No, it’s not a rocket launcher. It’s a rockets launcher. That’s because the MMR-144 fires a single unguided projectile which acts as a bus for twelve smart...
View ArticleLightning Strikes
from the Eye-in-the-Flame Arms internal memeweave archives From: Aldysis Cyprium (Directorate)To: Diziet Cyprium (Director of Entertaining Research)Subject: FULGURANT TRIBULATION It’s not that we’re...
View ArticleAir Wings Sold Separately
Bringing the what-the to warfare once again, and following on from both the unquestionable success of Nuclear War In A Can, and their earlier semi-portable combat drone product Janissary In A Drum,...
View ArticleBigger and Uglier
DROPSHIPS: EMPIRE OF THE STAR This supplement to the current edition of Naval Warships presents an update to the infamous Flapjack– and Flapjack II-class cavalry dropships. The Imperial Navy has...
View ArticleGot To Be Sharp
“And this is our design for a sword edged with a topological defect. We probably shouldn’t go to prototype before we can better simulate the consequences, though.” “Why, what are the consequences?”...
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