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PostPosted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 5:27 pm 
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Some sort of canister launcher I guess?

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 5:37 pm 
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How about a mirror projection system? Instead of arcing ballistics, a unit that sits flat on the ground, and a hovering ball or whatsit hanging above it that takes the energy from below, and uses it to fire from way up in air down at its target?

You could get away with just modeling the piece on the ground, or both the ground device and some floating ball up in the air that could be posed with a thin piece of wire or whatever.

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 6:15 pm 
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I like the four armed one better. I'd actually keep the plug-in to the base to allow the weapon to elevate though, along the arcs, and just do a new, four way center piece.

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 8:36 pm 
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Are there any visual descriptions of this thing in the novel? Or at least a page number so i can look it up myselfe (have to read Fall of Damnos yet)?

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 12:53 am 
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Nick Kyme's inadequecies as a writer (even compared to other BL writers, I mean) aside, here is the only passage that describes the Gauss-Obliterator in any detail:
Fall of Damnos, p281, ph4 wrote:
Rows of Pylons, once held in stasis and now dredged from the very earth, stood along static gauss siege-cannons. The latter were long, multi-barrelled monstrosities. Their flanks were wrought from the living metal of the necrontyr and pulsed fluidly on the half-light... Where the Pylons fed continuous beams into the heavens, the siege-cannons throbbed with the drumming staccato of their salvos.

Fortunately that's all of the writing I'll subject you to, but it begins to show Kymes's unnatural attraction to hyphens that has probably left him blind. One of the major story arcs is left curiously unresolved, as well. I'd recommend not spending your own money on this one unless you have a great urge to learn more about the 'crons, and no suckers living nearby.

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 8:33 am 
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Its the first of a two part series

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 11:55 am 
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Hmm seems to be some kind of static rapid-firing multi-barelled cannon.

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 2:24 pm 
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Oh well, so much for my mirror attacking mechanism idea. Maybe I'll make something up myself. :)

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