Cyborgs and Exoskeletons

Jonathan_S wrote:As for Yu the two actual quotes are:
"Something moved in the dimness, and his free hand locked on a rung to anchor him against the recoil as he raised his pulser"

"Yu rolled on his side in midair, holding his pulser in a two-handed grip as he flashed across the open lift doors. A Masadan soldier saw him and opened his mouth to shout a warning, but the captain squeezed his trigger, and two other pulsers whined as the three of them sent a tornado of darts down the passage.
There was no time to pick targets, but those darts were no less deadly for being unaimed. They clawed down the Masadans who’d lurked in ambush, and Yu stuck out a foot. His toes hooked under one of the ladder rungs before the recoil of his pulser could push him away from it"

tlb wrote:Again, thanks for the quote. This might cure me of making a reply before checking the text, but I am afraid that is unlikely: reactions are much faster than thought.

Joat42 wrote:Maybe the recoil from a pulser on full auto is more akin to a pushing actions ie. the recoils comes so fast they flow together.

My experience with assault guns on full auto is that novices tend to be surprised and doesn't compensate for the recoil and the gun quickly points upwards (or even smacking them in the face). If you are familiar with the weapon you know how to compensate for the recoil and I don't see why Yu wouldn't have the experience and reflexes to compensate for his use of the pulser. After all - they certainly knew well that the Masadans weren't to be trusted and most likely the Haven crew trained for any eventuality.

Jonathan_S wrote:In HOTQ Captain Yu, while using a counter-grav collar to work his way down a lift shaft needed to anchor himself against recoil before firing his pulser (pistol).

glott wrote:So Captain Yu was effectively in zero-G (or at most micro-G) when he fired his pulser, any recoil would cause him to move unless he anchored himself to something.

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Trip the Space Parasite calculates that a .45 automatic will give 0.12 m/s of deltaV to a 50 kg person

glott wrote:So Captain Yu was effectively in zero-G (or at most micro-G) when he fired his pulser, any recoil would cause him to move unless he anchored himself to something.

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aairfccha wrote:The question is how much this would have mattered.

Trip the Space Parasite calculates that a .45 automatic will give 0.12 m/s of deltaV to a 50 kg person

cthia wrote:Some day, Darius may be home to an entire line of these.

"The Zeta line, the last that we need."

cthia wrote:Some day, Darius may be home to an entire line of these.

"The Zeta line, the last that we need."

Vince wrote:

cthia wrote:Some day, Darius may be home to an entire line of these.

"The Zeta line, the last that we need."

I would think that would be the Ω line.

Ω, ω, Omega, last letter of the Greek alphabet.

glott wrote:

Walks Alone wrote:I recall he was proficient with a frisbee too, and I seem to recall there was an incident involving a swimming pool and some tennis balls?

And if I got round to being serious, I was thinking of either some sort of ranged stun weapon (or if really necessary, a pulser), so he could take out a sensed nanotech hijack before that hijack could do anything.

Obviously a stun weapon would be far preferable to a pulser, but I can't remember if the Honorverse has those?

Yeah they have stunners. In On Basilisk Station, the Marines accompanying Ens. "Scotty" Tremaine on his customs inspections of freighters were armed with stunners.

But, off-hand, I can't think of any other references to stunners.