For all of the wonders of blaster and lasers, sometimes you just need to hit with a rock... or a small piece of metal. ;)

The 6.5mm High-Velocity Caseless one is probably my favorite one here, Baron deer.

Hrmm... I wonder if you've looked into electrothermal systems, where a short-pulse charge converts a liquid propellant medium (water, ammonia, etc.) to a near-plasma state to maximize the propulsive force of the medium. One could use (if such is available) explosively-compressed room-temperature superconductor to get the pulse, where the explosive would be only a minor contribution to the actual propulsive yield. I would think something like this used best in large SMG and rifles, usually tossing a penetrator as an anti-armor projectile...

Yes, dear, perhaps TOO complicated, but technically feasible.

Lovely design, dear heart, as always.

Yours,
Mika Kyubi
Kitsune-at-Large

Oh ho! You've heard of Electro-Thermal Breech to! Yes there are ETB's in the Bravo Strike Universe; in fact most of the handweapons and light crew served weapons used by the Marine Expeditionary force to FDB3 use ETB technology. The thing I real love about them is that theoritical you can switch between ETB cartridges and traditional propellant by just switching bolt or breech in the weapon.
In the early ninties I work over by FMC in San Jose CA. At the time I did not realize it but they were conducting some tests on the theory of ETB weapons there along with some very early rail gun proof-of-concept stuff.

I, dear, am a fan of high-tech armaments, and yes ETB / ETE (electrothermal Enhancement) has seen some play in my games and ideas. It has also been seen in (to date as far as I know) one gaming system, and that is R. Talsorian Games' Cyberpunk 2020 game.

And yes, the breech/bolt-switching is an option, as is the use of the explosively-initiated charge being inside the cartridge, thus requiring no changes to the gun itself.

Glad to see I got your attention! Love the art!

Yours,
Mika Kyubi
Kitsune-at-Large

I like the bottom-right, myself.

...Of course, they all rock.

Mmm, good ol'-fasioned slug-throwers.

Helical magazine? Nice. I also like the one with integrated laser.

Yeah I figured the Helical magazine model might fire the same cartridge that a small PDW might use.

When going up against aliens prepared for burning energy weapons, what better to use than a rending projectile weapon? >=D

Mmmm. Zap gun. ;9

i like the middle right, it looks like a combination of a 1911 and a walther ppk

well slug throwing hasnt changed for almost 100 years here, but I bet with alien tech and materials I'm sure something else could come about.

Dude, That is talent

I have got to admitt the 6.5mm HV is my favouret too. So If what Mikakyubi said is true all one would have to do is change the breech and it'll take ETB cartrages? Cool.