At 07:53 PM 6/5/2007, Joseph Riggs wrote:
Finally, you're completely ignoring the primary gist of my argument,
which is that all of those systems you described are an utter waste
of money. By their very nature, melee weapons are outdated. Which
means that by putting a simple, cheap vibro knife on the end of one
of the limbs of my ground combat mecha instead of a flashy beam
saber, I can cut costs by (to pick a number at random) 10%, which
means that by spending the exact same amount of money as you, I can
afford a lot more mecha than you can. All that, just because I
didn't go for the snazziest version of a weapon that will rarely be used.
Maybe, maybe not. Don't forget that the blades of plasma sabers won't
break. If they're easy to maintain, the money you save on replacing
broken blades might offset the increased per unit cost. You just
can't make assumptions when it comes to these sorts of things,
particularly when we're talking about future tech. It's why you have
to focus first and foremost on the assumptions of the setting and
then extrapolate from there. Anything else is comparing apples and
pomegranates.
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