Science fiction weapon ideas

Hello peoples. Today I'm talking about another project I've been working on. Here it goes.

So way back in 2014 during school I began working on a fun project where I would draw and write about a sci-fi game of my own creation. This game would be primarily about major space battles so one of the biggest sections of it was coming up with weapons for the ships. The first thing I did was just try and make a simple list of all the weapons I could think of for this. I came up with: Javelins, bombs, gases, liquids, bolts (behaves like lightning), shots (bullet types), lasers, and rockets. So my first weapon total was 8.

Then I realized that I could make it so that these were only ways for a weapon to deliver its desired effect and not the weapon itself. Now that I had 8 delivery systems I had to make the effects. My first list of effects were explosive, acidic, heat, gravity (increases the gravity of the object it hits), freeze, growth (an invasive growing virus like tree roots growing into the ground), and energy. Now I had 8 delivery systems and 7 effects if you multiply those it's 56 weapons. Now all I had to do to drastically increase the amount of weapons was to keep adding more delivery systems and adding more effects.

To add more delivery systems I added different variations on the current ones which created A LOT more. For instance for the bombs the bombs could either have a remote trigger, be sticky and stick to the first surface they hit before they are remotely triggered, or explode on impact. They could also be grapeshot bombs, rounded, shaped like a tear, or a gas bomb canister. There are some other variations for the bombs so the total for just the bomb delivery system was 12 not counting the effects. Now that I had come up with variations for each I had 44 delivery systems and I had realized that I could make many more of the effects: growth and energy. I came up with around 25 types of growth and energy so now I had 2376, a major jump. The next major jump was adding the delivery systems: net and tether. What made this so huge was that they both had an EXTREMELY large amount of variations, especially tether. With all of these new variations my total jumped all the way up to 7562.

That's where we last left off until I picked the project up again a week ago. I recalculated all of the delivery systems as well as added some like wave, drill, flame, ray, impact beam, nano laser, nano swarm, and saws. I also added some new effects, energies, and growths for a total of 97 effects. So my grand total SO FAR (this is still a work in progress) is 21166 weapons. Over 20,000 is pretty mind boggling I have no idea how I got this far. Bye.


- By Ashton