> On Sep 15, 2016, at 3:33 AM, Kelly St. Clair <xxxxxx@efn.org> wrote:
>
>> Would swear that at least a back of envelope one was done during the
>> height of the FF&S design maddness. I also would suspect at least one
>> was done up with MT as well...
>
> Hell, I remember (at least) two creations by the infamous "Ditzie" - a very small meson *turret*, designed to function in the anti-hijack role (gets its targets from the internal sensors and can shoot anyone anywhere in the ship, right through anything in the way), and a meson *rifle* (predicated on the sensible assumption that such a thing requires no big heavy beam pointer, as the operator does that by aiming the muzzle - and about there is where sensibility and the rest of the design part company).

Rod eliot also designed “Barbie’s own CPAW’ and didn’t he make an Elephant-mounted energy weapon of some sort? MAy have been a meson device.
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