Alliance Military Technology

Alysha and Taylitha sparring

Personal Weapons

Why not, we've seen at least a handful.

• Lances/Staves (what did I name these)
  • Shock-staff is at least one of them
• Holoblades
  • Swordplay is taught in Fleet; there is "an old tradition of knowing how to hold your own in an honor duel, though no one does that anymore."
  • Holoknife: has a 'malignant hum'
• Claw-knives: widely regarded as street weapons, and outlawed in may places, including Terracentrus

Armor:

• Chest plates (seem to be similar to bulletproof vests, sort of thing?)
• Dampeners; Dylan Brushnie was given a dampening armband to protect him during the bombing of the governor's mansion. Produces a 'scintillating mist.'

Palmers

A small, personal ranged weapon. They have multiple settings: they can stun or cause pain; they can burn on a high enough setting; and, set to max, they can kill, though setting palmers to max is unusual in Fleet. Legal ones squeak; illegal ones are (or can be) silent, so you may not know that you're being shot at until you're down. Consumer-grade palmers have warning labels. When they hit solid matter, they make a hissing sound, "like heavy rain on stone." They are visible as a filament-thin beam of blue light.

Fleet-issue

We had that long talk in Laisrathera with Soly about the holoblades issued to Fleet personnel and how they change out the pommels so I should copy that in here somewhere.

Ship Weapons

Offense

• Lasers: Generated by energy converters; when they fail, they simply stop working, and are not capable of blowing up their own ship like physical ordnance.
• Entropy packets: React with halo shields, but are inert against anything else (though throwing them hard enough can do some physical damage)

Defense

• Halo shields: Produce a barely noticeable gold glitter. Not designed to deflect large physical objects such as missiles.

• Dusters: Capable of cloaking people, locations, or ships. A Duster small enough to hide a door "isn't all that expensive", but for a pirate to have a Duster capable of hiding their entire ship would be considered unusual.