Laser guns? Or not.
POSTED BY: Cosmoline
UPDATED: Thursday, August 25, 2005 04:32
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One thing about the show intrigues me. It's established in "Trash" that there are beam weapons and that they've been around for a long time. But the various fight scenes seem to involve a mix of straight-forward archaic cartridge firearms, modified cartridge (gyrojet?) firearms with a weird noise and little recoil, and other things. Though there don't seem to be too many actual beam weapons in use, except during the flashback war scenes and in "Heart of Gold". Was any of this planned? Is the idea that civies and mercs can't afford beam weapons?
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Have you seen the price of a civilian legal laser gun lately? Outragious. 
Only large army's and very rich people can get their hands on one.
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Yeah, Joss made a big point of laser weapons being expensive, so few people can afford them.
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A: Kermit's undivided attention.
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Yes,
Other than "the Lassiter" in "Trash", I think the only other privately owned beam weapon is shown in ""Heart of gold" owned by "Rance Burgess". They are supposed to to be far too expensive for everyone to have. I'd rather have a "Vera".
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Enara points one at YoSaffBrig when she's in the dumpster at the end of Trash, but of course, she's a member of the elite.
Gunpowder powered projectile weapons are low tech--no clean room required, no printing of circuit boards, and easy to reload on the fly. If you can afford a laser weapon, who will repair it on the border moons?
Extra bullets are cheaper than power cells to reload your laser pistol, and they can be made by anyone with mid-1800s technology.
Remember, Henry Ford built the Model T so it could be repaired by any farmer with hand tools and some baling wire. Sometimes low-tech IS more dependable
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Originally posted by R1Z:
Enara points one at YoSaffBrig when she's in the dumpster at the end of Trash, but of course, she's a member of the elite.
I do believe that that was the Lassiter.
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No, the Lassiter wouldn't fire, so she switches to a smaller gun and says, "Oh, well, it's still worth a fortune. Anyway, this one works just fine."
The barrel of the weapon Enara switches to narrows substantially behind the muzzle. Clearly not a projectile weapon.
And being from a core planet, Enara would have access and the funds to buy a state of the art laser weapon.
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Hrm. I could have sworn that was just a regular ol' western revolver. Now I gotta go watch for the millionth time and examine the crap out of it. Oh well, I can think of worse things to do.
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It could have been some sort of flechette pistol. Expensive and classy and sci-fi, but not so radical as a laser. Plus Rance had a state of the art laser and it was still a helluva lot more sizable than Inara's piece.
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My guess would be some type of electro-mag accellerated weapon firing a very small pellet of dense material at an extreme muzzle velocity.
Prolly still expensive as hell, mind you, but a suitable weapon for companions.
-F
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