Why Serenity has no lasers
POSTED BY: GreenFaerie
UPDATED: Thursday, December 8, 2005 01:00
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Also, same reason the hero or heroine doesn't pick up the gun that one of the bad guys just FREAKIN' DROPPED - kind of a writer's tool to create tension/suspense.
There's the idea of "home" that some have mentioned, which is nice, but if you have ever had your home broken into you may start seriously consider having a big gun handy just in case there's a next time. You probably wouldn't stick it on the top of your roof but would conceal it like Jayne (only better). Certainly, in their world - if we're to believe in their world as real - guns is nice.
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Quote:And that, in my opinion, is the real reason.
Originally posted by SergeantX:
Because Serenity, or "Firefly" at least, isn't about space battles. It's about people.
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Quote:Convoys just put a whole bunch of targets in to one conveniently destroyed package. The only reliable way to protect shipping is to aggressively hunt down raiders before they get anyplace near the convoy.
Originally posted by Gixxer:
And being familiar with wars and stuff, you'll have heard of convoys and escorts.
Quote:Back in WWII tankers were sometimes more heavily armed than escorts believe it or not. The Japanese converted some of their merchants it to a sort of combination transport-escort that was well armed, and they were known to stand and fight till the bitter end; there were times when their gun crews on sinking ships would keep firing until their gun was underwater or a merchant with several torpedo holes in it would turn and try to ram an attacking submarine. A few US WWII Submarine skippers (like Samuel David Dealey) practically considered hunting down IJN destroyers a sport. If there were people like Dealey, O'Kane or Fluckey hunting me and I was in a battleship I would take that battleship out of the water and put in on top of a very tall mountain (but I would be worried that Fluckey might still get me...)
Armed merchant ships usually don't have very serious hardware, while your average raider is likely to be armed to the teeth, and I doubt anyone would want to try and slug it out with the bad guys. Much better to run, or have a warship handy.
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For examples of how much trouble hull-mounted weapons can get you, I suggest tracking down the old Brian Daley Han Solo novels.
Poor Han seems to spend half his profits trying to bribe port inspectors to ignore the quad guns. That was why he had to hang out at dinky little backwaters like Tatooine.
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