But yeah, in my sci fi I like pretty much every gun to be some variation on this concept. No reason to have guns that aren't using these kinds of principles.
Projectile or Energy?
Hudson Hall
Andrew Brooks
>No reason
KISS
Evan Lewis
No, the propellant isn't the inner workings of the gun, it's the gas that pushes the bullet forward.
Leo Reyes
Nah, modern guns are more complex than muskets. That's not usually true if your engineerig is good
Evan Martinez
But the electricity isn't part of the propellent, it's just used to ignite the propellent chemicals. It's part of the inner workings
Oliver Smith
No, it's used to shape the propellant as it's propelling the bullet. That's why they're pointing out that it's plasma, because plasma has an electric charge and can be manipulated that way.
Brayden Gomez
Guys, guys, hear me out on this.
What if we had railguns that looked and fired like muskets? Just a big ole bulky firearm with extreme range and accuracy that requires a recharge period and has a long, hard barrel.
Unf, that's the stuff.
Blake Hernandez
What about muskets that look like railguns? Double subversion!
Aiden Anderson
For cyberpunk/near-future, projectiles are clearly pre-dominant in the genre. For space-faring sci-fi/space opera, lasers/pasers/etc are the leading genre trope. I mean... this is cut and dry. Reversing the roles in either can be considered subversion of part of the genre to some degree.
William Gonzalez
Yeah, I guess the propellent is electrically charged. It dissipates though, so the projectile that you're hitting people with is not. And the electricity is still part of the inner workings even if it's also present in the propellent, so that's just pedantry.