1 | ->"''Velocitas Eradico''"[[note]]I am speed, and I destroy[[/note]] |
2 | -->-- Motto of the US Navy Railgun project |
3 | |
4 | ->"''That means Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son-of-a-bitch in space!''" |
5 | -->-- Unnamed Gunnery Chief, ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''. |
6 | |
7 | ->''"Basic physics. High mass plus high velocity equals ouch."'' |
8 | -->-- '''Norigom''', ''Fanfic/RedFireRedPlanet'' |
9 | |
10 | ->''"GUNS kill, leave big open holes in you that are like sores but WORSE."'' |
11 | -->-- '''Dr Borous''', ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas Old World Blues'' |
12 | |
13 | ->"''An object impacting at 3 km/s delivers kinetic energy equal to its mass in TNT.''" |
14 | -->-- ''[[http://72.52.147.73/forums/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=98192&start=0 Rick Robinson's First Law of Space Combat]]'' |
15 | |
16 | |
17 | ->When you are going [0.6c relative to the target], you can use little cones of tin-foil as weapons. Technically, a non-exploding missile is a sabot, but at these speeds, these cee-sabots would explode pretty impressively. |
18 | -->-- Narration for the [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2000-11-05 05 November 2000]] strip, ''WebComic/SchlockMercenary'' |
19 | |
20 | ->Lines of crimson death shot from the gun blisters like the colored rays of science-fiction. The fragmentation shells would have barely scratched the double-armored hull of a rocketship--they were designed to protect ''Voyager'' when landed on a planet's surface, or as a last-ditch defense against missiles. But [[MegaMawManeuver inside the cube-ship]] the rapid-fire guns wrecked bloody devastation. Autoloaders slammed a relentless stream of ammunition into the hot breeches, powered traverse mechanisms smoothly tracked their targets, [[ZeeRust electro-mechanical predictors]] linked to gunlaying radar enabled deadly accuracy. |
21 | -->-- ''Fanfic/RocketshipVoyager'' |
22 |
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