SCIENCE FICTION WEAPONS – Terrible Writing Advice

Making sure your “peaceful” explorers have enough firepower to survive the dangers of space is important. After all, if it’s one thing every science fiction story has shown us is that first contact always goes wrong so you want to be armed with only the latest in military technology. Lasers and shields still won’t ensure your survivability as well as being the protagonist, but it can’t hurt.

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[csuporlucifer]

You forgot the number 1 advice for sci-fi weapons. Really long fancy, smart sounding science words.
It is not a railgun. It is a quantum railgun. It is not a tank. It is a mitachondria tank. It is not a grenade. It is a quantum anti neutrino grenade.
What it means doesn't matter.

[panzerschiff]

"The answer, use a gun. And if that doesn't work, use more gun"

Mr Yeehaw Man from Team Fortress 2.

[approximateCognition]

"This is my lasgun. There are many like it, but this is by far the worst"
~anonymous guardsman

[darthzayexeet]

I’m amazed at how you managed to simultaneously parody/make a joke at Star Wars, Star Trek, Avatar, Halo, Mass Effect, WH40K, Gundam, Guren Lagann, Yourself and Neon Genesis Evangelion...

[tobeyorconsequences]

What about the love triangle between the rail gun, plasma gun, and laser gun?

[firockfinion]

Don't forget how space fighter battles will always end up looking like World War 2 dogfights even though we've already surpassed dogfights being anything like that in real life already.

[sergegordeev]

By the way in Star Wars, contrary to popular belief, they don't use lasers.
Blasters shoot a special gas (tibanna) that is heated up and held together by a magnetic field.

[flyingfetus]

Quick Reminder!: Never EVER build Dyson spheres, or any useful mega-structure you can think off.
Only death stars!.
(or flat earths)

[quazar]

""We faked the moon when the astronauts landed on it." - Most innovative conspiracy I heard this year!

[DrShaym]

You don't need a "super weapon" to destroy a planet if your fictional civilization is capable of interstellar travel. Unless they're using wormholes or something, if they regularly travel between stars, then they're probably capable of lightspeed or near-light speed travel (given the vast distances we're talking about, being able to travel at relativistic speeds is sort of a prerequisite). If that's the case, then your spaceship already has enough energy to fry the surface of an Earth-sized planet. All they have to do is fly by a planet at near light speed and dump their garbage. The garbage will inherit their inertia and slam into the planet with kinetic energy vastly greater than the meteor that killed the dinosaurs.

[nickkorkodylas]

"WE CAN'T DEFEAT THAT KIND OF HISTORICAL BAGGAGE!"


Lost my shit there!

[Uriel]

Wait, nothing on drones? No AI-controled massive swarms of explosive bug-sized robots? No

[georgesears]

You forgot to point out the obvious problem of building your giant robot out of contrivium: if you have enough contrivium to make one giant robot, why not instead use that same amount of contrivium to build ten contrivium tanks? Or ten contrivium fighters? Or five of each? Why not have several compact invincible death machines that you can actually use rather than a single giant one that enemy armies can more easily outmaneuver and is too expensive and irreplaceable to risk losing, effectively rendering it worthless due to its own power? It’s not like modern navies are built on the principles of having dozens of disposable destroyers and fighter escorts for every one capital ship. And that we have specifically designed our formations and the defense systems of said capital ships to avoid a direct confrontation AT ALL COSTS since the capital ship is too expensive to lose.

[KindredKeepsake]

Who should we pair the Giant Robot with? A harem of tsundere tanks?
"I didn't roll over your foot on purpose, baka!" "You should've gotten out of my way!"
"It's not like I aimed at you specifically!" "I'll protect you, b-but not cause I like you!"

[grilledcheesinator]

"Or maybe you don't like watching your Imperial Guardsmen explode"

*But that's all they do!*

[ponchodog]

00:55
"lugging around an extension cord..."
*Evangelion would like a word*

[nooctip]

Fools this is truly terrible writing advice. You don't replace the giant robots with a love triangle. You give the giant robots a ;love triangle. BWAHAHAHA.

[jamestang]

Just for clarification, the point of the Maginot Line of defences was to make the Germans go around them and the Allies would counter-attack through the Low Countries.
What they did not expect was that the Germans could push a large tank army through the lightly-defended and heavily wooded Ardennes.

[officialbazzargaming]

1:40 "They explain it in the LORE!"

Ah yes, my favorite part about 40k lore, where the people making the weapons, which are easily 10k year old designs, know /EXACTLY/ how and why they work, and are totally NOT just copying things from the last batch, which was a copy of the batch before it, which was a copy of the batch before IT, and so on-

[flyingplatypus]

"The legionare who scoffs at the lasgun has yet to charge across an open field facing hundreds of them"