Originally Posted by
tonyg
That was sort of what I was alluding to with the idea of 1 inch photorps. Bascially they could make a mico self guided bullet with a warheard. A 1/100th scale photorp with about 1/80,00th the payload of a photrop could still have a yield in over half a kiloton, or about 1.5x10^15 Joules
THat's probably massive overkill and beyond the Strafleet's tech limits, but aGM could get some decent damage if he wanted. Certain a bit better than current CODA projectile ratings.
Thing is this is ALREADY there and canon.
The Siege of AR-558. the Jem'Hadar left anti-personnel mines in sub-space, allowing them to travel around the battlefield, anywhere in the battlefield. No cover, no protection, just random dumb-luck as to whether you are in the area when one appears and explodes.
Theres your demoraliser.
I would imagine that there was an element of control, and as seen in the episode the Federation found a way to un-cloak them from sub-space and alter their programming to use them on the Dominion Forces.
Theres the loss of the highly valued Starfleet rules of Warfare.
So go ahead, a subspace generator drops the bullet into subspace for the accuracy modifer the anti-matter wahead blows large wounds in the target, and a REALLY good sniper could time the re-entry from subspace (which would probably be linked to a range-finder) to occur within the target.
Who needs a transporter/scanner slug gun that can easily be messed up by sensors and jammers...
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