Shittiest piece of garbage tech in science fiction

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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Sci-Fi Wi-Fi > Shittiest piece of garbage tech in science fiction

thatbastardken: Apr 23, 2010; A contract signed by a minor is not binding!

Solkanar512 posted:

Here�s something dumb with war machines that keeps coming up- there�s always some special �powered up� mode where suddenly hatches and panels open up and tons of thrusters pop out for extra speed and whatnot.

So you mean to tell me that for this entire time, these mechs were carrying around dead weight in terms of engines that were never used? Capacity that could have been used for more fuel, ammo, weapons or just left empty for greater efficiency? Come on.

there's a real world analogue here in War Emergency Power. not whole extra engines but forcing the engine to produce additional power for a limited time.

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thatbastardken: Apr 23, 2010; A contract signed by a minor is not binding!

Fantastic Foreskin posted:

They do a shield nuke at the end, but it's been so long I don't remember the specifics.

Paul breaches the Shield Wall with actual atomic weapons that belonged to House Atreides, not a lazgun reaction.

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