#scifi weapons

[rjalker]

the black lamp is definitely a cool weapon.

This is a public domain concept from the short story The Black Lamp by Sterner St. Paul Meek, originally published in the August 1931 edition of Astounding Stories of Super-Science magazine, which you can read for free here on Project Gutenberg.

This weapon concept is 100% free to use for literally anything you want. That's what Public Domain means.

It's a black light(?) that acts like a shroud or something and covers up electrical lights so you can't see, compared to putting black ink a bottle that had red ink. The red ink is still there, but you can't see it anymore.

It also causes "paralysis of the brain" as well as making you unable to talk while you're under its effect. The "paralysis of the brain" will make you comatose if exposed long enough.

It is cured by exposure to sunlight or other ultraviolet lights.

A small exposure makes you a little confused and makes you not able to talk above a breathy whisper and requires around an hour of standing under a UV light before you can talk audibly again. The confusion fades as soon as you have protection in the form of a vitriline helmet.

Those exposed to higher concentrations of the lamp have to be laid in sunlight and UV lamps for probably several days.

If they didn't know how the cure worked, we can assume people would eventually wake up on their own just from regular sunlight and other lights in whatever hospital they're in.

At a higher level, possibly with the help of other technology, the lamp can be turned into a ray weapon (they love their rays in the 1920s and 30s) with a red bean will turn living objects into glass statue that glow red from the inside. No known cure or treatment for this version yet.

It hasn't been revealed the exact nature of this lamp yet but I'll keep you posted.

Edit: almost forgot -- evidence of its use is that any non-vitriline glass nearby will become opaque. Short exposure makes it "foggy" like it's just dirty, longer, intense exposure makes the glass almost completely opaque.

Edit: The advanced beam version can disarm bombs.

[lil-tachyon]

I've been messing around with Blender on-and-off for a while but this is the first thing I've done that feels somewhat complete: an old marksmen's las-rifle.

I forget where I read it, but somebody once wrote something to the effect of: "I'm going to start learning Blender" is the artist's equivalent of "I'm going to start hitting the gym." I think about that a lot...

[magic-polygon]

More weapon designs. This time, they're simple sketches made with Procreate's Turpentine brush. I love that thing <3

[ashnagog]

The Cosmotool is a triple-barreled personal defense weapon developed and manufactured by resistance groups, inspired by a weapon used by the first of Terre's explorers. usually handed out out to back-line personnel, such as medical assistants or engineering crews, the weapon was relatively compact, while still offering a measure of protection against a variety of threats.

The weapon is simple, being comprised of three barrels, two 20-gauge smoothbore and one .30-calibre rifled, around a rotating axis. one of the smoothbore barrels would be loaded with buckshot for use against ordinary humanoid targets, while the second smoothbore was loaded with a slug, for use on large flesh targets. the rifled barrel was primarily used against heavily armoured or robotic targets. To fire, the operator would rotate the desired barrel to the top position, then pull back the bolt to prime, and finally pull the trigger.

Due to the nature of its manufacturing, both the quality and the exact details of the weapon can differ vastly. Generally, however, it was quite well liked by those who's lives it saved, and it didn't usually get in the way when stowed properly.

[pencilbrony]

[haematinon]

Created for my upcoming illustrated book Ergo Cosmos :

The fighting technique of Felice's school is acclaimed for rendering swordsmen capable of confronting foes far beyond brigands and drunken duelists! Many attest that they have ventured into the vast expanse of the Oceanus Procellarum and survived, thanks solely to its teachings.

[birdsandrobots]

COOLDOWN

[koyoriin]

aquila // 2

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[whereserpentswalk]

Imagine if in the future there was a culture that viewed nuclear explosions and power as the ultimate sign of divinity. Like, that was the most powerful earthly expression of God/a god/the gods in their religion.

Entire fields of barren land turned into basically open air temples that are constantly nuked during worship as a way of honering their gods mabye sacrifices would be put within the blast radius to give them fully to the gods. Thousands watching from a safe distance in prayer.

Some temples might be filled with eradication to the point where worshippers have to wear hazmat suits to even be there, and in a way it keeps them at a safe distance from the divine. Perhaps the oldest and most honered priests enter sections of the temple nobody else can, because they're finally old enough so that they'll die before the cancer from the radiation has time to set in.

Mabye nuclear war would be their ultimate taboo. Using the power of heaven to wage war on earth. And the warnings of mutually assured destruction have shifted into warnings of divine punishment.

Mabye they see the ancients as foolish for fearing nuclear power. This is a place of honer, great deeds are esteemed here.

[nestedneons]

By o_to_to

[nellieshill]

Happy Starfinder 2e Playtest release day to those who celebrate

[handlinepic]

[magic-polygon]

Weapons, anyone?

This is a collection of scifi weapons I designed for my game dev project, a 2D top-down shooter called From The Heavens which I shall share more of at another time.

Some of these drawings are very old. Specifically, the shotgun and submachine gun are from 2014. Most of the others without my modern watermark are from 2015, except for the pistol which is from 2017. That said, these are the most current designs as they appear in the game.

There is one weapon missing, which looks like an oversized sniper rifle that acts like an energy railgun. I made a concept for it, but never actually finished shading and detailing it which is the only reason why I'm not including it here so as not to clash with the visual style.

Hope you all like!

[pencilbrony]

Maybe not a wall but like a canvas or something