>>5794980"The first annual Galactic Darwin Awards show." You tell her.
"I 'unno what that is." She mumbles dismissively, walking back out most likely to look for Kyla.
Knowing her proclivities, Sanig gives her a moment to move out of earshot before asking.
"Darwin awards?"
"An award given to anyone who contributes to evolution by removing themselves from the gene pool." You explain. "Whether by accident or intention, but usually by accident. And usually, it's pretty funny."
"People dying is funny?" He asks, raising a brow.
"Oh yeah. Sometimes." You nod vigorously, years of compilation videos rapidly flashing through your mind.
You can't help but remember such classics as that time someone shoved an old piece of WW2 munitions up their ass, or that time someone tested their new gas mask by mixing mustard gas in their hotel room at a furry convention.
Fucking hilarious.
"I'll... have to take your work for it, kid. Hard to believe, but you keep snickering like that, so..."
"Mmm, yeah. Look, everyone's gotta die someday. If we spend all our time worrying about olympic contender dumbasses killing themselves or getting shot, we're never gonna get anywhere. You can feel bad for them if you want, but there's gonna be losses. That's life."
"Fine, kid. It's your tech, you do what you want with it. But what are you planning on giving them, exactly? Even i don't know what all's rollin' around in that noggin of yours."
Yeah, that's a good question.
You could just dump blueprints for every gun you're intimately familiar with onto the fabs and call it a day, but... does anyone here really need a KS-23?
Mind you, you're not talking about gun control. You mean, a lot of human guns would literally bruise or even break the bones of people who tried to shoot them.
Likewise, some guns are a lot more useful than others out in space, and a lot of them have very specialized use cases.
Your mom used to carry a tiny little pocket revolver that felt more like a toy than anything in your hands, but it fired .22LR and was more than enough to kill a man.
No recoil to speak of. Something like that wouldn't break anyone's hands, but at the same time it also wouldn't fit in many of the larger species hands.
Anything larger than .22 and you'd have to worry about overpen, particularly on smaller vessels like transport ships or corvettes.
You guess it'd be an issue on artificial stations too. Ones built entirely from scratch, rather than out of a mined-out asteroid.
You need something more all-purpose... generic, even. Maybe not ideal, but good enough in any situation.
...Huh, come to think of it, there is one type of round that gains speed over distance. The Gyrojet.
If it was tuned right, it would be safe to fire in smaller ships because it wouldn't have time to build up speed before it hit a wall, but it would also have plenty of power at longer ranges.
Manufacturing them was an issue on earth, but with the precision of nanofabs... hell, it might work.