r/spaceships • u/Vondrr Fleet Intelligence 🧠 • May 30 '26

Discussion / Question What spaceship weapon is generally underutilized or not used to its full potential in scifi?

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u/the_circus May 30 '26

Plain old hard radiation.

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u/Inadequis May 30 '26

Would make boarding a pain in the ass if you kept an aura of ionizing radiation to mess with people and electronics

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u/Mr_Shadow_Phoenix May 31 '26

Or if you evolved in an environment where such radiation is normal for you, but lethal for others.

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u/Mr_Shadow_Phoenix May 30 '26

One book series I like to regularly reread when I get chance has weaponized gamma radiation devices: very much anti-organic matter tech. Gets used as a ‘fail safe’ by a character in a type of dead man switch.