guns...replacable?

**VAE VICTUS** · 09-04-2005, 01:01

can anyone see far into the future and speculate on what may replace the gun in warfare?i mean the sword,spear etc. were used for thousands of years and now they have been replaced,so when will something new come onto the scene?lasers?
this is like a reverse history question.

history is that part which has happened and is written;the present is unfolding and being written about;the future has yet to happen,but is still written about

**Alexanderofmacedon** · 09-04-2005, 01:32

I hate the use of guns. It seems so dishonorable

**LeftEyeNine** · 09-04-2005, 01:33

Let's analyze the matter of "being obsolete".

The swords, spears and bows replaced with guns because they did lack range and needed too much physical effort to use. The accurate range and the rapid rate of fire lessened the rate of hot contact, that's why it outclassed the former weapons.

The next thing is, I think all about the new weapon being instant - hard to identify and decreasing or removal of the need of ammunition.

Actually the only thing I can imagine of is some kind of psychic power. May sound funny but well, the brain attacks would be fatal enoguh to replace guns, I think.

**Kraxis** · 09-04-2005, 02:05

Well, wouldn't some kind of futuristic weapon be much like a gun? Or in fact guns. I mean they have more or less the same characteristics. Easy to carry, easy to use, ranged, quite fast and fairly accurate.

At best I can imagine sometime when/if shieldsare invented that melee weapons might get a comeback, but guns and their successors will stay on.

Of course it is possible that we might concieve of a weapon that we can't imagine as of now.

**AntiochusIII** · 09-04-2005, 02:30

Who needs guns when some genius (re-)invent the lightsaber?

**Kraxis** · 09-04-2005, 02:53

Originally Posted by AntiochusIII

Who needs guns when some genius (re-)invent the lightsaber?

Me! You still need to be able to parry with the thing, and I doubt that you can learn that as fast as you can learn to shoot properly. I even doubt you can ever learn to react to a gunshot.

**Kagemusha** · 09-04-2005, 07:27

I dont think guns are going anywhere.I think we will have more combo guns in the future wich have ability to shoot different kind of projectiles and also maybe hyper-sound and pneumatic shockwawes.

**AntiochusIII** · 09-07-2005, 00:37

Originally Posted by Kraxis

Me! You still need to be able to parry with the thing, and I doubt that you can learn that as fast as you can learn to shoot properly. I even doubt you can ever learn to react to a gunshot.

I always feel that it's not the Jedi's force but the in-built anti-bullet/laser system of the lightsaber that allows those showy blocking-the-shoot moves by the Jedi...

Hmm...