CODA - Non-Standard Weapons

[JonA]

Hi folks,

Just fancied starting a thread for our own unofficial designs/stats/thoughts on the non-standard weapons.

I know Star Trek shouldn't be about weapons but I figure that there are times when they're needed (especially by the bad guys).

I'd like to know what to do with things like Sub-space Weapons like the Isolytic Burst (as seen in ST:Insurrection).

Has anyone come up with some cool, nifty and downright nasty WMD for their campaigns.

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[KillerWhale]

Have you checked ESO's first chapter? There are some starship weapons in it (the Isolytic burst being part of it)

[qerlin]

How 'bout nucyuler weapons: they're insanely powerful, hard to find, and people who speak Fed Standard don't know what you're talking about...

[Sea Tyger]

Personally, I prefer biogenics....you know, the viruses so nasty that scientists don't have a name for them yet.

Maybe someone with a high-level Starfleet clearance has found out about the Omega (III?) virus in one of Kirk's old reports (depending on the timeframe, of course), and has discovered how to manufacture/replicate it.

Seeing how devastating the virus is, it would make a great WMD (and force the PCs to head to Omega to find a way to replicate the cure ).

[qerlin]

Originally posted by Sea Tyger
Personally, I prefer biogenics....

And amazingly, they always work in a matter of seconds!

[C5]

I know technically it's not a weapon, but there's an advanced race I intend to introduce in my games some time in the future (given our current game schedule this looks more like eternity) that'll use transporters as a weapon.
Their transporters will be much more advanced than the Federation (maybe the transporter beam will be carried through subspace, which would allow it to bypass shields, but I have yet to study the whole technobabble implications), and will allow them for instance to transport whole ships over a few light years - which is quite effective to transport a whole armada in the middle of a system, or to dispatch ship after ship of an ennemy force into nearby systems. And of course, there's always the "Code 14" option....

[Tobian]

We have seen the Voth (From Voyager's Distant Origin) use whole-ship transporters to move the USS Voyager, but i would not consider this 'efficient'. If you have a system that can move a matter stream through subspace 'instantly' then wedge it open, and fly a ship through it

Perhaps you could revisit the old Spacefolding transporters, which can bypass shields, but at the cost of your health - BUT then the Sikkaran trajector appeared to have overcome this limitation.

Perhaps if you fuse two ideas together, you culd create a 'null space transporter' which could be used to accelerate ships hugelly through Null space - or equally be used to transport people through an extremelly deep layer of subspace, hence bypassing shields and covering distances of up to 600 Light-years BUT iut would be only one way! Which would lead to different tactics! and a game hook to give your players an advantage against such a hugelly powerful race!