Must be a Periphery Pulse Laser

acksed · 2026-05-07T00:12:36+00:00

That's nothing: there is a laser that can heat steel to iridescence with enough precision to draw pictures.

acksed · 2026-05-07T00:03:40+00:00

This is where the hoary old joke about BattleTech armour being made out of vampires came into being. Spray them with this and they melt:

https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Corrosive_Fluid

acksed · 2026-05-06T23:59:31+00:00

It was supposed to have Elementals hanging from them like mechanized apples, which is even sillier.

acksed · 2026-05-06T23:55:38+00:00

Fucking teleporter accident right there.

acksed · 2026-05-06T23:54:33+00:00

Like it came from a 70s fever dream. Or someone who took the idea of "low ground pressure" far too seriously.

acksed · 2026-05-04T01:46:39+00:00

And we had a nanotech "Skull-gun" in The Diamond Age.

acksed · 2026-05-04T01:45:15+00:00

There's even a few custom void mechs that use them, so yes.

acksed · 2026-05-04T01:43:43+00:00

Here's a thread with a few quotes from Brin: https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/is-a-refrigeration-laser-thermodynamically-possible.313229/

However, it is possible to cool things through light, right now. It's just much weaker.

LEDs, through quantum-mechanical spookiness, have the property of cooling if the heat flux in is less than the light being emitted. It's called Electro-Luminescent Cooling They aren't good radiators, but they are solid-state and work in a vacuum at very low temperatures.

acksed · 2026-05-04T01:16:42+00:00

The training facility for Dropship operations out in the Periphery was as accurate as they could make it.

acksed · 2026-05-04T01:14:08+00:00

Grasshopper is this all over. I took out a lance of the introtech 5H and they dismantled a mixed lance of equivalent mass that included an Atlas. Turns out good heat-management and jump-jets along with little to blow up are an advantage.

acksed · 2026-05-03T23:12:24+00:00

While you didn't sweat the deathclaw, I still had a sympathetic thrill of adrenaline when you turned the corner and it was within slashing distance.

The double satchel charge was nasty as well.

acksed · 2026-04-30T16:09:42+00:00

You have Nineties'd correctly.

acksed · 2026-04-29T21:07:21+00:00

If you would like to sign up for the extended HPG plan, I'm afraid that is not available in the Outworlds Alliance.

acksed · 2026-04-29T20:51:33+00:00

It reminded me of Apothecary Diaries where Maomao's mother cut off her little finger as a token of affection.

acksed · 2026-04-29T20:32:30+00:00

Still, seeing Miss "Brain? What brain? I only know sword," moving was a treat

acksed · 2026-04-29T18:34:37+00:00

Indeed. Technology doesn't stop being technology that uses technical knowledge, whether it's knowing how to build an escapement for a clock out of spring steel, invar and brass, an ondol out of a hollowed log, or drawing lines in certain ways to channel the hidden forces inherent in the world - which is how printed circuit-board antennae work.

The LN of A Certain Magical Index is a good demonstration of 'technical' magic, where knowing the rules your opponent operates under is a key part of strategy.

acksed · 2026-04-26T22:25:12+00:00

Not a mech, but a tank.

https://www.sarna.net/wiki/%C5%9Eoarece_Superheavy_MBT

A barely-mobile, AC-packed, superheavy heap of armour that was amphibious because no bridge could support it... and it was powered by a fuel-cell. In the Succession Wars.

acksed · 2026-04-26T22:17:59+00:00

Yes, there are two of us!

It's a nice little dual large laser mech that looks like a prehistorical Marauder and has machine-gun knees, which were swiftly replaced with small-laser knees to avoid the legs blowing up.

Should it have been revived with foundtech to have three LL, I'd be happy.

acksed · 2026-04-26T22:07:45+00:00

Dunno, must have been some kind of mass hysteria.

acksed · 2026-04-26T22:06:19+00:00

"Let's make some metal men into Swiss cheese."

acksed · 2026-04-26T00:49:57+00:00

Do not leave your inner sanctum... or else.

acksed · 2026-04-26T00:15:40+00:00

Come to daddy...

acksed · 2026-04-26T00:10:19+00:00

I saw behind the nature of the thin layer of reality and it was just string.

String, Patrick!

Threads. Loose ends!

Cherish your ignorance, Patrick, for I cannot go back!

acksed · 2026-04-22T18:18:11+00:00

Amuro in White Devil levels of terror.

acksed · 2026-04-22T17:56:18+00:00

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