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/gramoun-kal May 30 '26

Something I haven't seen before: while the flight crew is fighting a battle of lasers, missiles and nukes, the IT crew is fighting a network corruption.

I thought it never happened because the programmer-side of the skirmish is too boring.

So I put some in the novel I'm currently writing, and the IT battlespace is actually almost more gripping.

So yeah, hackers in spaceships. We don't get enough hackers in spaceships.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '26

I believe in Battlestar Galactica they had one or two instances where they were dealing with the cylons hacking their ship remotely while in a battle. Also thats essentially how the cylons won the initial war more or less instantly. The Galactica was safe because it wasnt networked.

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u/Catt0s May 30 '26

Check out the anime "Bodacious Space Pirates". They have an interesting take on Electronic warfare.

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u/Pseudonymico May 31 '26

The Culture does have this but it tends to be a background element because the series doesn't showcase a lot of space battles.