Quotes / Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better

"Velocitas Eradico"^note I am speed, and I destroy

— Motto of the US Navy Railgun project

"That means Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son-of-a-bitch in space!"

— Unnamed Gunnery Chief, Mass Effect 2.

"Basic physics. High mass plus high velocity equals ouch."

— Norigom, Red Fire, Red Planet

"GUNS kill, leave big open holes in you that are like sores but WORSE."

— Dr Borous, Fallout: New Vegas Old World Blues

"An object impacting at 3 km/s delivers kinetic energy equal to its mass in TNT."

— Rick Robinson's First Law of Space Combat

When you are going [0.6c relative to the target], you can use little cones of tin-foil as weapons. Technically, a non-exploding missile is a sabot, but at these speeds, these cee-sabots would explode pretty impressively.

— Narration for the 05 November 2000 strip, Schlock Mercenary

Lines of crimson death shot from the gun blisters like the colored rays of science-fiction. The fragmentation shells would have barely scratched the double-armored hull of a rocketship—they were designed to protect Voyager when landed on a planet's surface, or as a last-ditch defense against missiles. But inside the cube-ship the rapid-fire guns wrecked bloody devastation. Autoloaders slammed a relentless stream of ammunition into the hot breeches, powered traverse mechanisms smoothly tracked their targets, electro-mechanical predictors linked to gunlaying radar enabled deadly accuracy.

— Rocketship Voyager

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