It was later modified as a ship to ship weapon, and eventually refined into a scalable weapon. 2: Deoxyribose Resonator: this weapons fires a wave of energy specifically targeting Deoxyribose, vibrating the mollecule to extreme speeds. It passes through most armor, but can be attenuated by dense materials. You say hard sci-fi but then have FTL and artificial gravity which are Clarktech. Furthermore it would already be implausible if you had the most powerful battery we have today as common place in the far future, let alone something already mundane today like NiCd or Lithium batteries, let alone in a future where Clarktech exists. $\endgroup$ Sep 1, 2014. #8. In all seriousness though, I will nominate the JA-12 Laser Rifle from the Rifts tabletop setting. It's a laser assault/sniper rifle that does 4d6 mega damage per shot, or 1D6x10+10 mega damage for a three pulse burst. To put this into perspective, this rifle can waste a modern M1A2 Abrams tank in only a couple of three round Example 2B – High Frequency Swords are essentially a staple in sci-fi swordplay, the HF Sword is favoured by many cyborgs, modern ninjas and other swordsmen. Most famously used by Raiden of the Metal Gear fame, other notable users are the Guyvers and Zoanoids from Bio Boosted Armor Guyver and the Lancelot Knightmare frame from Code Geass. 4. M41A Pulse Rifle (. This weapon looks cool, sounds cool and basically defines cool, especially after Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley customizes the rifle to include a built-in M240 Flamethrower, instantly making it one of the most iconic movie weapons ever to blast onto the big screen. 3. Proton Packs (. 5 SONGSTEEL BLADE. Songsteel was a luminescent and lightweight silver metal that was used by swordsmiths to create masterwork arms. Due to its rarity, time to work and cost, the metal was reserved for the most impressive weapons. Songsteel was more than capable of blocking lightsaber attacks, earning it a place on this list. The Jean le Flambeur trilogy, most well known by the first book The Quantum Thief is a soft scifi setting masquerading as a hard scifi setting. In it, FTL travel is impossible so everyone gets around in STL ships. However, their energy levels are ludicrous and their ships are unreasonably fast and powerful. When discussing weapons in science fiction, a plasma weapon is a type of raygun that fires a stream, bolt(s), pulse or toroid of plasma (i.e. very hot, very energetic excited matter). The primary damage mechanism of these fictional weapons is usually thermal transfer; it typically causes serious burns, and often immediate death of living creatures, and melts or evaporates other materials. In The Reality Bomb, made by the Daleks, was capable of destroying all matter in the entire multiverse. The Ultimate Sanction was almost used by the Time Lords to end the Time War. It's not clear exactly what it is or how it works, but it was supposed to destroy the Time Vortex, effectively wiping out time itself, destroying everything that exists One pulse does not stop all people, and there have been allegations of misuse of stunguns, and claims of their use in torture. 8. E-bombs. High-power microwave pulses can knock out computers jwoxc.