Re: The Faey & Stretched Space
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 10:24 pm
Hmm. Having checked it seems I was confusing two different points.
However they are still penetrating and then exploding, so they're still acting like APEX rounds. Just in a slightly different way. Spaced armor, roman shields, and other forms of stand off detonation will still work. As indicated in italics above, it seems that a grazing contact with matter will detonate the round. So a bush or chicken wire might offer as much protection as an inch of steel.Their weapons, well, those were the real deal. Faey used tiny bursts of high-energy metaphased plasma as their primary weapon, which exploded on contact with solid matter and also tended to burn through as it penetrated. The result was like an explosive bullet, which punched into a target then detonated. Living things shot by a metaphased plasma weapon tended to explode from the inside out when blood vaporized from the heat and that steam applied pressure to the flesh, aggravating the explosive contact the plasma had with a much cooler material. The result was a charge of metaphased plasma only two millimeters thick could leave a hole nearly a foot across. It was quite gruesome; even a graze could blow a limb off the body. What made them very nasty was that the fact that because they existed in multiple quantum states, it allowed most of the energy of the blast to pass through coherent energy shields. Any plasma state that matched the state of the shield would be stopped, but the remaining energy of the weapon would pass through and hit what it protected.