For a real challenge I'd make a spin on the sniper weapon.
It'd be a one-hit kill weapon, a true product of the finest technology of the Golden Age, but here's the catch: It's a bow. When properly tuned and balanced, the effective range would be consistent with most sniper rifles.
Now here's the [b]really[/b] cool part: The bow gets it's range & killing power by using a Cosmic String, suspended between 2 small but powerful gravomagnetic generators, as its bowstring.
The massive gravitational energy produced by bending the String is balanced by the generators and, instead of launching the projectile at near relativistic speeds (thus destroying it), the energy is imparted [i]into[/i] the arrow, resulting in a [i]near[/i] total conversion from matter to energy. The shape of the projectile (now reduced to a thin sliver of monopolar matter being held in a straight line by the gravitic energies pushing in along it's length) keeps the gravitic potential imparted by the Cosmic String at zero until impact. Once the arrow strikes an object with it's tip (in other words, the pole) it deforms and the energy is released. The extreme gravitic forces trapped within the projectile help to contain the catastrophic release of energy, limiting the scope of its full effects to a small area around the space formerly occupied by the arrow. The result is that the shaft, and anything else within a 3-inch radius of it, is forcibly removed from our 3 (or 4) perceived dimensions. A secondary effect of a small blast of concussive force has been observed, caused by air rushing into the space once occupied by the annihilated portion of the target.
The antigrav field can be adjusted to increase the speed and range of the arrow, but this will dramatically affect the potential energy transfer, reducing the damage; not to mention making the bowstring exponentially harder to pull (to say nothing of the fact that excessive tampering could cause failure of the field, releasing the String and collapsing everything within a 20-mile radius into an area the size of a grain of sand).
Sound great? Well Mankind's attempt to weaponize a Cosmic String is not without its drawbacks, for instance:
1) It's a bow... Its killing power relies exclusively upon its draw weight. In other words a snap shot will produce much less energy and distance, on par with a shotgun, & only a full draw will result in a 1-hit kill, making it most effective at long to extreme ranges. Good luck mounting a telescopic sight on this bad boy.
2) The slow moving projectile would mean that, if the target is aware of you, it'd be relatively easy to avoid the shot at extreme ranges and, given that such ammunition is hard to come by these days, well... If, however, you have the drop on your target, the results will be spectacular as whatever portion of their body you hit will be instantaneously (and messily) ejected from the physical universe.
3) The overall AoE is smaller than that of, say, a rocket launcher, with the primary effects being confined to an area 30 inches long and 5 inches in diameter with the concussive effects extending out to no more than a 2-3 foot radius beyond that. Unless your enemies are considerate enough to stand in a straight line, this is not a multi-target weapon, boys and girls.
All told, this weapon is supremely designed to do one thing. Take down a single target with lethal finality.
I call it "Red Shift"
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My god, it's full of stars...
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i laughed so hard at that line, because its a perfect fit for what he wrote. well done for thoes who get that line.
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Dude you just made me rethink my limited knowledge of bows in it's entirety.
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Can i live inside your brain?
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Wow, great concept and an awesome name. Seriously the name is really important another good one would be "event horizon"
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Edited by Numero Uno: 11/20/2013 11:00:30 PMBadass, I'm in awe, I was just looking through this thread causes somebody like my gun from awhile back and I stumbled upon your unearthly god-like genius weapon of mass destruction that is so simple yet so well thought out and creative... I sir would willingly die for you on the virtual battlefield!
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Bungie hire this man!
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I read this over three or four times....................... To check if it was real because this is an epicly awesome idea!!!! I mean the words "epicly" and "awesome" don't even comprehend how great this idea is!!!!! If you come up with any other great ideas I would greatly appreciate it!!!!
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Thanks. The science itself is relatively sound, in that a Cosmic String's gravitic potential drops to zero when the string is in a straight line, but the rest is pure (and entertaining) pseudo quantum physics. I know I'm taking a risk there, because nobody has EVER fudged the science in their science fiction, right?
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I would say you are correct!
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Hey, man, did that Beta code work?
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It did indeed! Thanks man! I don't know what to say!
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Edited by Hatsley: 10/23/2013 11:36:19 PMIt's no problem. I just had a few extra codes that I acquired through community contests (not Bungie related), and I pre-ordered for two systems from GameStop and for some reason I got 4 codes (one on each receipt, and two via email), so I had plenty to spare.
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I really hope bungie reads this because it sounds really badass
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Thanks. I have no problem whatsoever with them using this in one of their future releases. Hell, I'd gladly waive any claim to it, just to see it used in the game. Of course, they'd probably have to do all new mocap & coding for bow-type weapon physics in order to make it work. It doesn't look like they have anything of that sort in place for the game at this stage, but as I said, maybe in one of the future releases....
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Nerd. Jk =P
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Totally! You have to be a nerd to come up with stuff like this! Fortunately, my wife has a thing for nerds.
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Very nice, very nice!
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Thia is absolutely awesome. You have put so much thought into this. I really hope bungie does something like this.