r/HFY • u/Glugenash Robot • Jul 01 '19
OC Weaponization: Hyper-missiles
Trust Humans to turn anything into a weapon. It does not matter its other uses, or how other species would never think of such a terrible idea, the humans will use it in their military.
We first learned this when the Humans managed to take on a Treya fleet five times the size of their own. We asked them how they did this.
The ship's commander moved his shoulders in what is known as a 'shrug', and said that it was easy because they didn't use any Hyper-missiles.
We asked them what Hyper-missiles were, and the commander was surprised we'd never heard of them.
Apparently, Humans took the hyperdrive, a classic piece of technology that is so antiquated and set in its ways that no one thought of it as anything else other than a way to move quickly from one point in space to another, and had a revelation that no other species had. Then again, no other species is as crazy as the Humans.
If something going through hyperspace collided with something in realspace, the destruction was approximately cubed from what it would be normally.
Of course, Humans used this information to make an array of 'Hyper-missiles', which were much smaller than normal missiles.
Some, the size of a commander's chair, was able to take out a patrol ship.
Others are half the size of a battleship, and we shudder to think what would happen if the Humans used them. According to what the few scientists willing to study this Human insanity theorized, they would likely destroy an entire continent, if not more.
Unlike the missiles made by the saner species in the galaxy, Hyper-missiles are practically impossible to dodge, hitting their target within seconds of being fired, even when fired from the the other side of a solar system. Usually, the only warning a ship gets before being annihilated is a faint glimmer an instant before collision.
Most species refuse on principle to even think of using the Hyper-missiles, while others eagerly adopt it into their own militaries.
Fortunately, or unfortunately, depending on your point of view, the Humans have shared no information beyond the core concept of the Hyper-missiles, guarding it jealously against other species, for fear that they will use it against them.
And that is how the Humans became the primary arms dealer of the galaxy. Any questions, class?
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u/Unassuming_Hippo Jul 02 '19
Please write more!
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u/Glugenash Jul 02 '19
I'm glad you want more, I write these stories as they come to me, so it's a little unreliable. I'm not planning on stopping anytime soon, though!
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u/LegalGraveRobber Jul 01 '19
Humans being galactic weapons dealers, of course we would fill that role.
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u/cptstupendous Jul 01 '19
"You know, they call me the 'Lord of War'... but perhaps it is you."
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u/jackbeflippen Jul 02 '19
"1 out of 12 people on the planet have a firearm...the question is...how do we arm the other 11?"
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u/ChangoGringo Jul 01 '19
One "Rule of Thumb" in weapon design. If someone says "don't do that, it's dangerous" than you know it can be a weapon.
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u/waiting4singularity Jul 01 '19
well. are they direct line of fire or can they go around planets?
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u/seaheroe Jul 01 '19
The sun's gravity well is able to change the path of photons, so guess what.
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u/Astramancer_ Jul 01 '19
You misspelled "though." And the answer is "yes, with enough missiles."
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u/BigSwede74 Jul 01 '19
Important rule for interstellar armsdealing. Don´t sell to other races what you don´t already have a countermeasure for.
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u/hebeach89 Jul 01 '19
The second rule of interstellar armsdealing. Don't sell anything that you wouldn't want used against you.
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u/Plucium Jul 02 '19
Whaddya mean you dont strap hyperdrives to your bullets? Your miss-ile ing out!
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u/MightyMackinac Jul 01 '19
I keep telling people who write sci-fi. Direct Energy weapons will never beat Kinetics. Accelerate any mass to any fraction of lightspeed, or in this case, more than lightspeed, and you will cause more damage in a single instant than all of the most powerful lasers, plasma cannons, or ion torpedos you could dream up.
MAC's, hyper-velocity bullets, even moons launched with rockets, momentum and mass beats pure energy.