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Message no. 1
From: "J.W.Thomas" <cm5323@***.AC.UK>
Subject: Smartknife
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 1994 16:57:13 +0100
Ive seen some wierd weapons in my time, but the nastiest was a
CP2020 smart sword...
This was custom made from orbital crystal, with a piezo-electric
'tang' in the blade. The blade was mono-edged with
micro-serations, a series of mercury ballast transfer pipes
and internal gyro's and the whole thing had a temperature sensative
hilt to activate it.(the blade vibrates and serations chew up
anything they contact)

The Interface software was custom written for him in KIEV Uni by
a programming major friend/contact....

So as the blade moved in his hand, its centre of gravity shifted
and its balance moved to guide it to target...
moving, the weight was back to the hilt, and striking it surged
forward ...

Cost him a FORTUNE...
CP2020 stats...WA 1+3 ,damage 5D6+db, 1/4 hard armour , ignores
soft armour.

This sort of thing in SR?

Possible, but complex.

CHOPPER
the man inside his head
Message no. 2
From: Jai Tao <jdfalk@****.CAIS.COM>
Subject: Re: Smartknife
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 1994 19:23:09 -0400
If ye don't mind, please take CP2020 discussions to another list
unless you start them off with a complete conversion of the device to
follow Shadowrun rules.
Message no. 3
From: Marcus Adi <s1685736@********.TECHNION.AC.IL>
Subject: Re: Smartknife
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 1994 11:10:42 +0300
On Mon, 13 Jun 1994, Jai Tao wrote:

> If ye don't mind, please take CP2020 discussions to another list
> unless you start them off with a complete conversion of the device to
> follow Shadowrun rules.
>
don't play cp2020 I didn't mean the smartknife(weapon) but an adaption of
the smartgun palm link to the use of throwing knifes.

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