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Cryonic starship weapons.
senatorvreenak
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Ive always liked the Breen ice gun from the Breen story arc, the sound and the awesome cool icy beams it fires.
Its "unique" to say the least, with few other weapons like it.
And the Breen space set has a pretty cool icy effect on the engine trails.
Now what I would like to see if this taken further and somehow see cryonic weapons introduced as starship energy weapons.
They would of course fire icy energy particles like the ground weapons, but as a unique proc they could have something like a 2.5% chance to temporarily stop the cooldown timers on random boff powers for a few seconds.
And maybe eve have some sort of cryonic torpedoes and mines that can temporarily increase inertia and delay the firing cycles of weapons.
I think it would add a new and interesting dynamic to combat, and would be very "cool". :cool:
Its "unique" to say the least, with few other weapons like it.
And the Breen space set has a pretty cool icy effect on the engine trails.
Now what I would like to see if this taken further and somehow see cryonic weapons introduced as starship energy weapons.
They would of course fire icy energy particles like the ground weapons, but as a unique proc they could have something like a 2.5% chance to temporarily stop the cooldown timers on random boff powers for a few seconds.
And maybe eve have some sort of cryonic torpedoes and mines that can temporarily increase inertia and delay the firing cycles of weapons.
I think it would add a new and interesting dynamic to combat, and would be very "cool". :cool:
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Firing streams of "ionized gas" through space makes just as little sense. :rolleyes:
Also, while space is cold it also isn't very conductive, and even in real life ships have needs to vent excess heat accumulated both from internal and external sources.
But that's just it... in space, heat is an enemy because it's hard to get rid of. So heating a ship would hurt it. Chilling one would probably help it more than anything...
"Cold" is the absence of energy. Projecting a lack of energy? Siphoning away their heat?
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^I'm not so sure. They might be saving Breen ships for winter events only.
Considering how all the weapons in star trek and sto make noise in space, I don't think a logical argument using actual science to argue a point in this thread applies. :P
Pretty much this.
I mean c'mon, somehow the Breen figured out a way to turn liquid nitrogen into an energy weapon with the CRM 200. :P
And its definitely an energy beam since the Borg can adapt to it, and it can be "remodulated".
Thing is, space isn't a very good conductor and starships tend to produce a lot of heat with their power systems that needs to be vented, and I imagine directly applied rapid cooling or even an ice coating could cause some significant problems.
"Make it so" - Captain Picard
Build I am working for my Federation, Klingon, and Romulans.
Starships are already in the 'cold' of space. So a 'cold/ice' weapon seems unlikely.
Iced weapons are about removing energy in the form of heat from a target.
How about an Entropy Weapon instead? Something that draws all of the energy from a target and triggers a cascade collapse of heavier elements? It's proc would be cumulative in terms of energy loss over time.
Wait, we already have that. Polaron, Phased Polaron, Energy Siphon and the Plasmotic Leech.
Suns and stars seem to be able to handle the cold of space on their plasma.
And Star Trek is about Sci-Fi magic anyway so why not cryo weapons. More energy types is fun (i want electrical ones first