General / Off-Topic Favorite Sci-Fi weapon

In Elite: Dumbfire missiles if they would be useful :/ and plasma accelerators <3

Outside of Elite: Gaußrifle or Coilgun. Works similar to the Railgun but without the rail. the advantage of that is that it can accelerate any kind of projectile to its maximum speed vs air resistence and as we know space is empty, it will get very fast. The usual maximum velocity of a projectile shot out a Gaußrifle is 35 km/s on earth with common air resistence above the ground/sea level. SO without air resistence ... I imagine that Gaußrifles ... maybe class 4 will achieve a VERY high velocity. :)
 
Oh an honorable mention for me are the veritech fighter/battloid mechs from Macross. People love gundams and such but he veritech was their granddaddy.
 
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A true classic
 
In this game and many others, in books and films for the last 100 years and yet man kind is no where near making them work. SHIELDS. The human that can perfect this trick is going to be very rich. Unless they are British, then they just hand the technology over to the planet.
 
Breitenbach rifle from Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space universe.

From Elite universe(s), maybe the Beam Laser in original ELITE.
 
Oh an honorable mention for me are the veritech fighter/battloid mechs from Macross. People love gundams and such but he veritech was their granddaddy.

Mobile Suit Gundam predates Super Dimension Fortress Macross by 3 years.

That said, I vote for the "Daedalus Attack." A giant robotic space carrier punching crap with an amphibious assault ship just blew my mind.

Original
[video=youtube;GT6Og9fOFCE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT6Og9fOFCE[/video]

Updated version
[video=youtube;Slqa30DSSKE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slqa30DSSKE[/video]
 
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