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
• Claw-knives: widely regarded as street weapons, and outlawed in may places, including Terracentrus

Holoblades

See also Fencing.

• Can simulate a variety of different types of blade.
• Produce a visual representation of a size and shape, colored to provide an additional visual indicator for the wielder's benefit. Purple is (at least in some holoblades) a filament-thin blade. Other possible colors are gold, scarlet, orange, and yelolow.
• Produce a pitched hum.
• Uses a magnetic field that provides its illusion of mass. In addition to conveying the force behind the blade's strikes, it allows the wielder to feel this as the "weight" of the blade in their hand.
• 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 (possibly a cheap one; used by Liset Line Insendere in an attempt to self-harm): has a 'malignant hum'

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.