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Work In Progress / Re: Brainstorming for slower technological progression
« on: September 28, 2013, 09:38:41 pm »I was actually thinking that those weapons don't have a mechanical trigger at all, instead relying on some kind of psi-related activation circuit, possibly available after researching psi (or perhaps mind probe?).
I had also thought about actually needing an alien weapon and a mind probe to construct a human weapon - would finally give some use to the mind probe
That's actually brilliant -- and explains why we don't just capture a Plasma Rifle and then immediately turn around and give it to a squaddie; because it's pretty obvious where the magazine goes, what the magazine is; and how you point and aim the rifle and fire it.
EDIT: And if weapons have a psi-trigger, then what's stopping the weapon from being psonically linked to it's user's health?
Basically, if the Psi trigger detects that it's authorised user has expired suddenly; and if it doesn't get "reset" by an engineer within a certain amount of time; then it automatically destroys itself. You'd still be able to figure out some rudiments of how the system works from the self-destroyed guns, but you'd be missing a lot.
