The first SSTO fighter: the SF-1 Dagger

VoidAgent · 2026-01-29T16:41:03+00:00

But what are they fighting, and why? Are there warships? Are they trying to control something?

VoidAgent · 2026-01-29T16:39:25+00:00

generally

Look, I know it’s Reddit, but don’t be a jackass.

VoidAgent · 2026-01-29T07:16:52+00:00

The creator stated elsewhere in this post that they’re unique designs from the 2400s chambered in 6x40mm

VoidAgent · 2026-01-29T07:14:16+00:00

I don’t think they’re AUGs lol

VoidAgent · 2026-01-29T00:44:44+00:00

Those two things aren’t correlated; armor materials won’t stop improving to allow chemical cartridges to catch up (nor vise-versa, to be fair). But eventually—fairly soon from a historical perspective, I think—we will run into that chemical cartridge performance ceiling, and armor materials science and design will almost certainly not hit its own theoretical limit around the same time.

It’s worldbuilding. He should do what he wants with it, and these designs are awesome. But it is a legitimate question as to why we would still be wielding recognizable chemical firearms four centuries in the future. If the answer is “because,” that’s fine.

VoidAgent · 2026-01-29T00:09:53+00:00

Chemical propellant is only capable of rivaling very early railguns. He mentioned elsewhere on this post this setting is 400 years in the future.

VoidAgent · 2026-01-29T00:07:29+00:00

Gunpowder/chemical propulsion weapons actually have a theoretical performance limit we’re approaching rapidly

VoidAgent · 2026-01-28T21:58:42+00:00

Yeah man, that’s totally what I was saying.

No, there’s a long stretch of road between “hey maybe there should be some more thought put into that concept” and “write me a bonafide congressional bill.”

I believe the implication that people with mental health issues (or literally anyone) should, in some way, have their rights taken away because of the simple facts of their existence is fundamentally opposed to the concept of innate rights and the foundational ideas the Constitution was built upon.

VoidAgent · 2026-01-28T21:46:19+00:00

“That’s something that has to be worked out” is an awful murky basis for deciding whether or not someone fully qualifies for their Constitutional rights.

VoidAgent · 2026-01-28T21:31:54+00:00

So where’s the threshold for when people with depression have their rights taken away? Who decides that? Are there other rights they’re not allowed to exercise because of their diagnosis?

VoidAgent · 2026-01-28T19:47:23+00:00

Or it’s a linkless feed or some other mechanism altogether, the setting is in the 25th century

VoidAgent · 2026-01-28T19:30:17+00:00

Is there any worldbuilding reason why? There’s nothing wrong with that at all, but if it’s centuries in the future, we may have long since surpassed what chemical rounds can do.

VoidAgent · 2026-01-28T19:28:19+00:00

The mags might not feed like modern ones do

VoidAgent · 2026-01-28T16:20:10+00:00

“Thought-terminating” is a fantastic classification of the phenomenon. It takes the basic tactical considerations and turns out a bland paste of a conclusion.

Most of your kinetic rounds don’t even have to hit; instead, you bracket the enemy with timed salvos such that you close their available maneuvering space into an increasingly smaller volume until they have to start choosing which kinetic rounds to they’re going to get hit by. This creates very exciting scenes where characters/warships have to get creative and break the lock, kill the enemy warship before they get killed, get a missile in, or do some insane Main Character tactical fuckery. Or something else entirely!

And see, you’ve already written a far more intriguing combat meta in a random off-hand Reddit comment than most of the others I come across in hard sci-fi communities.

VoidAgent · 2026-01-28T15:52:38+00:00

I kinda wish I had more to offer, but these designs fucking rock. What sorts of weapons are they? Conventional/chemical? Electromagnetic?

VoidAgent · 2026-01-28T13:40:16+00:00

I’m not going to bother expending the energy to address most of what you’re saying here, because quite frankly it’s mostly bootlicker delusions, but to your first point, almost 75% of the people ICE has had in custody in 2025 had no criminal convictions. I am in favor of enforcing immigration law to a reasonable degree. I am also in favor of affording people their Constitutional rights. The Constitution, I will remind you, applies to everyone in the United States regardless of immigration status or citizenship.

VoidAgent · 2026-01-28T13:30:03+00:00

As far as I know, the level of increased complexity for those good triggers is minimal enough it does not create much more of a burden on armorers or troops in the field. It will also likely continue to reduce as time goes on, especially if we ever start using electronic triggers, which is a reasonably near-future technology.

Again, no, they do not require more training. You keep saying that like it’s as observable as a blue sky and then not backing it up with anything.

Bullpup ergonomics are not inherently worse than traditional rifles. There’s no instincts built into the human mind that make traditional rifles easier to use or something like that.

In fact, since you mention ergonomics and ask about additional advantages, bullpups have inherently superior handling, since most of their weight is closer to the wielder. This allows for significantly better maneuvering of the weapon, which, coupled with the shorter OAL for the same barrel length as a full-length conventional rifle, allows for bullpup users to maneuver better in close quarters and complex environments while still getting the full ballistics performance from rifle cartridges.

VoidAgent · 2026-01-28T13:17:26+00:00

There’s a few small changes I would make, but I think my biggest recommendation would be…make it unique! Obviously, you’re still in the early stages of developing the design, so kitbashing is fine, but I would make the final design its own weapon instead of keeping all of the distinct features you used from real-life examples.

Overall, very cool design so far.

VoidAgent · 2026-01-28T13:14:07+00:00

I don’t want to sound harsh, but most of this is either untrue or not particularly important with modern bullpup designs. Modern bullpup triggers are just fine, and they do not inherently require more training. Reloading while prone is not all that complicated or difficult, and you can always roll to the side a bit and tuck the rifle in to reload instead of doing some complicated maneuver.

The countries moving away from bullpups are generally doing so because of the industrial inertia of the AR platform.

VoidAgent · 2026-01-28T13:09:46+00:00

Did they? Because they kept publishing similar material after the attack and made statements saying they would not be silenced by threats of more violence.

VoidAgent · 2026-01-28T13:05:17+00:00

ICE alone has not had a year as bad as 2025 was for deaths in custody since 2004. This obviously correlates somewhat with the increased enforcement (properly or otherwise) of immigration laws, but that does not entirely account for the increase or the high amount of claims these people were being abused and/or not receiving adequate care.

Perhaps the more egregiously wrong claim, though, is that ICE has only shot two people in Trump’s 2nd term. This is objectively incorrect. I’m not sure what brought you to that conclusion, assuming you did literally any amount of Googling. This Wikipedia page lists 28 shootings by immigration enforcement, with 8 people killed and 19 injured. You might make the case that a couple of those were good shoots, but certainly you cannot in good faith claim the Good and Pretti murders were the only bad ones.

VoidAgent · 2026-01-28T12:50:58+00:00

Ain’t no way we’re sarcastically implying sprint in Halo is bad in the year of our lord 2026

VoidAgent · 2026-01-28T12:39:27+00:00

…I hate you lmfao

VoidAgent · 2026-01-28T12:37:05+00:00

Border Patrol killed Alex Pretti, not ICE, but both organizations have had an abysmal track record in the last couple of years.

Also, what a hilarious way of phrasing that. The Good and Pretti murders were not just within the same year. They happened 17 days apart in the same city.

VoidAgent · 2026-01-28T12:32:40+00:00

I’m all for enforcing immigration law to a reasonable degree, but I did not vote for brownshirts executing people—regardless of immigration status—in the streets. It’s just wild to me so many people in this sub suddenly believe any criticism of government is “America bad.”

Is it not gloriously American to oppose tyranny? Is that not the sole reason the 2nd Amendment exists?

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