• TraumaDumpling
    ·
    5 months ago

    pump actions are reliable but don't care any less about atmosphere than automatic actions, gas-blowback or recoil operated firearms produce their own gasses/forces (from the bullet propellant) and contain their own oxidizers (no need for atmosphere)

    basically just get a power armor suit with a full-auto multipurpose flechette/microgrenade launcher mounted to one of the arms or your shoulder.

    • Yurt_Owl
      ·
      5 months ago

      What about different gravity would that cause guns to fail? Americans go to the moon and don't even test any guns smh my head

      • Abracadaniel [he/him]
        ·
        5 months ago

        If a gun can fire upside down it can fire in a zero g environment.

        • Yurt_Owl
          ·
          5 months ago

          What if there's more g's, enough g so the firing system can't eject the shell or go back far enough

      • LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA [he/him]M
        ·
        5 months ago

        a pump shotgun no, but potentially some gas operated systems? i'm not really sure how gravity/vacuum would affect any recoil operating system like that.

  • pudcollar [he/him]
    ·
    5 months ago

    I wonder what the Borg would do against buckshot? You'd think the Federation would stock some kinetic small and large arms for the odd species that shrugs off phaser blasts.