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**Shock-staff is at least one of them | **Shock-staff is at least one of them | ||
*Holoblades | *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."<ref name="sota-06">''[[Sword of the Alliance (Fiction) |Sword of the Alliance]]'', Chapter 6</ref> | |||
**Holoknife: has a 'malignant hum'<ref name="coldandgentle">''[[Alysha's Fall (Fiction) |Alysha's Fall]]'', "A Cold and Gentle Dark"</ref> | **Holoknife: has a 'malignant hum'<ref name="coldandgentle">''[[Alysha's Fall (Fiction) |Alysha's Fall]]'', "A Cold and Gentle Dark"</ref> | ||
*Claw-knives: widely regarded as street weapons, and outlawed in may places, including [[Terracentrus]]<ref name="bloodmoney">''[[Alysha's Fall (Fiction) |Alysha's Fall]]'', "Blood Money"</ref> | *Claw-knives: widely regarded as street weapons, and outlawed in may places, including [[Terracentrus]]<ref name="bloodmoney">''[[Alysha's Fall (Fiction) |Alysha's Fall]]'', "Blood Money"</ref> | ||
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* Chest plates (seem to be similar to bulletproof vests, sort of thing?)<ref name="wiw-ch07" /> | * Chest plates (seem to be similar to bulletproof vests, sort of thing?)<ref name="wiw-ch07" /> | ||
* Dampeners; Dylan Brushnie was given a dampening armband to protect him during the bombing of the governor's mansion.<ref name="sota-06" /> | |||
===Palmers=== | ===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]].<ref name="sota-12">''[[Sword of the Alliance (Fiction) |Sword of the Alliance]]'', chapter 12</ref> | 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]].<ref name="sota-12">''[[Sword of the Alliance (Fiction) |Sword of the Alliance]]'', chapter 12</ref> 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<ref name="wiw-ch07">''[[Who is Willing (Fiction) |Who is Willing]]'', chapter 7</ref>. Consumer-grade palmers have warning labels.<ref name="sota-p">''[[Sword of the Alliance (Fiction) |Sword of the Alliance]]'', prologue</ref> When they hit solid matter, they make a hissing sound, "like heavy rain on stone."<ref name="sota-12" /> | ||
===Fleet-issue=== | ===Fleet-issue=== | ||
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===Defense=== | ===Defense=== | ||
* Halo shields: Produce a barely noticeable gold glitter.<ref name="sota-14">''[[Sword of the Alliance (Fiction) |Sword of the Alliance]]'', Chapter 14</ref> | * Halo shields: Produce a barely noticeable gold glitter.<ref name="sota-14">''[[Sword of the Alliance (Fiction) |Sword of the Alliance]]'', Chapter 14</ref> Not designed to deflect large physical objects such as missiles.<ref name="sota-07">''[[Sword of the Alliance (Fiction) |Sword of the Alliance]]'', chapter 7</ref> | ||
* Dusters: Capable of cloaking people, locations, or ships. A Duster small enough to hide a door "isn't all that expensive"<ref name="sota-02">''[[Sword of the Alliance (Fiction) |Sword of the Alliance]]'', Chapter 2</ref>, but for a pirate to have a Duster capable of hiding their entire ship would be considered unusual.<ref name="sota-14">''[[Sword of the Alliance (Fiction) |Sword of the Alliance]]'', Chapter 14</ref> | * Dusters: Capable of cloaking people, locations, or ships. A Duster small enough to hide a door "isn't all that expensive"<ref name="sota-02">''[[Sword of the Alliance (Fiction) |Sword of the Alliance]]'', Chapter 2</ref>, but for a pirate to have a Duster capable of hiding their entire ship would be considered unusual.<ref name="sota-14">''[[Sword of the Alliance (Fiction) |Sword of the Alliance]]'', Chapter 14</ref> | ||
Revision as of 18:58, 6 July 2020
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
- Claw-knives: widely regarded as street weapons, and outlawed in may places, including Terracentrus[3]
Armor:
- Chest plates (seem to be similar to bulletproof vests, sort of thing?)[4]
- Dampeners; Dylan Brushnie was given a dampening armband to protect him during the bombing of the governor's mansion.[1]
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.[5] 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[4]. Consumer-grade palmers have warning labels.[6] When they hit solid matter, they make a hissing sound, "like heavy rain on stone."[5]
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
- Entropy packets
Defense
- Halo shields: Produce a barely noticeable gold glitter.[7] Not designed to deflect large physical objects such as missiles.[8]
- Dusters: Capable of cloaking people, locations, or ships. A Duster small enough to hide a door "isn't all that expensive"[9], but for a pirate to have a Duster capable of hiding their entire ship would be considered unusual.[7]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sword of the Alliance, Chapter 6
- ↑ Alysha's Fall, "A Cold and Gentle Dark"
- ↑ Alysha's Fall, "Blood Money"
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Who is Willing, chapter 7
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Sword of the Alliance, chapter 12
- ↑ Sword of the Alliance, prologue
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Sword of the Alliance, Chapter 14
- ↑ Sword of the Alliance, chapter 7
- ↑ Sword of the Alliance, Chapter 2