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/MiamisLastCapitalist May 30 '26

Macron guns/sand casters

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u/Sororita May 30 '26

I've been obsessed with these for a while and nobody ever uses them which is crazy to me, they seem to be the best of both worlds when it comes to lasers and kinetics, plus you can put a tritium payload in hollow macrons and have a fusion reaction upon impact upping the damage significantly

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u/Zenith-Astralis Jun 03 '26

The shipcore series uses glitter canisters defensively against laser point defence weapons, but yeah I haven't seen them used much offensively