| From: | IronRaven cyberraven@********.net |
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| Subject: | Present day tech on guns |
| Date: | Sat, 03 Jul 1999 22:55:46 -0400 |
>That of course assuming nothing changes in the intervening years. Such
>technology will just be yet another price-point option IMO.
Application problem:
Weapons issued by corporate (don't kid yourself, they exist here and now),
miliatary and other governmental forces have large numbers of weapons,
which are signed out of an armour when they are needed. The time to
personalize the weapons, the book keeping needed to keep track of where
everything is, and the expense of the technology makes things like
biometric readouts less than desirable. It also means that if Grunt A
looses his weapon, and Grunt B is beyond needing the one he still has in
his hands, Grunt A is unarmed.
Usage of the radio wristlets and magnetic rings are very high-tech and
politically correct sounding, but in relaity, you only take weapons from
dead enemies. Grab the appropriate safety mechasm at the same time. While
they are more universal than biometrics, they are also easier to compromise.
It also has the issue of someone who has to shoot from cover or is wounded
but still provide defensive fire, but for various reasons must shoot from
the offside being just as screwed as Grunt A in the first example.
Combat is not a game. You can't take you pencils and dice and character
sheets and go to bed if you get eliminated. You can rollplay or roleplay.
If you roleplay, and your character buys it, you are effectively dead. All
the techno-crap in the infinant reaches can change that.
CyberRaven Kevin Dole
http://members.xoom.com/iron_raven/
"Once again, we have spat int he face of Death and his second cousin,
Dismemberment."
"Briar Rabbit to Briar Fox; I was BORN in that briar patch!"
