Intergalactic Summit

good grief no. Frigate railguns start at 75mm. Strong as they are, a DUST merc couldn't handle that recoil - even with a heavy suit on, the forces involved would fling them twenty meters. No, the DS-1 fires a much smaller caliber solid round with no plasma inside - all of its penetrating power comes from the round being tiny and going very, very fast.

Spaceship-grade weaponry is still an order of magnitude bigger in pretty much every regard. a DS-1 would barely register to a frigate pilot.

Go away, gallentean kid. Adults are talking here.

And it came to pass that a randomly enlightened person of Clan Intergalactic Summit, should stumble upon the holy writ of unknown origins...

Then did he raise on high the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, saying, "Bless this, O Lord, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy." And the people did rejoice and did feast upon the lambs and toads and tree-sloths and fruit-bats and orangutans and breakfast cereals ... Now did the Lord say, "First thou pullest the Holy Pin. Then thou must count to three. Three shall be the number of the counting and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither shalt thou count two, excepting that thou then proceedeth to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the number of the counting, be reached, then lobbest thou the Holy Hand Grenade in the direction of thine foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it."

... Thus Sayeth the Lord.

Confirming that Kim-baka has the figure and intelligence of a pre-teen girl. I bet she has posters of Heth plastered to her walls instead of the latest bubblegum pop bands too.

Nauplius' demented rantings merit no comment beyond, "No U!".

Prophecy from God; the doom of your Republic. Repent and believe.

I don't know, but I wish they would go back to blasters.

It's true, Nauplius got it off a bathroom wall and wrote it down on napkin with a crayon.

No, really I ask you. Why are those idiots fighting on the planet use damn rail guns and such? It makes absolutely no sense to use weapons with very high velocity for the air drag is so huge, that most of the energy put in the shot gets lost on it's way. And it's heating up and giving the thermo sensors something to pinpoint your position.

In my humble opinion the troopers would be way better working with conventional weaponry, meaning four to nine millimeter projectiles fired by conventional caseless cartridges, twelve millimeter for antimatter. I have seen what those weapons can do and it's really enough to ruin the day of the average human hit by it. Those weapons are easy to handle, cheap to produce, lightweight, really.

What's the point in using fucking railguns?

God is not a lawyer, and sometimes He is not as precise in His Revelations as we humble lesser beings might hope for.

But when last comes to last, there are those who are Chosen, and those who are Damned, whether in this life (as God has already given the Minmatar Republic over to destruction and we Chosen are to be Demons to them, the Wicked already in Hell) or the next (where God shall deal with the Gallente and the Jove and all who abide under His terrible wrath).

You are not elect by Amarrian birth, nor are you elect by faith (as is spoken of the Apocryphon) as are some Minmatar like Anyanka Funk; you do not drink the blood and sacrifice to the red God. Therefore, the wrath of God abides upon you.

And so, for the sake of my immortal soul, I choose the Barrage. But for the sake of your immortal soul, consider your treacherous state: the Pit of Abaddon gapes for you; there is nothing in your mortal strength that keeps it a second from swallowing you up, only the mysterious common grace of a righteous and holy God, who has given you this short time to accept the faith and given you a Prophet (me), who preaches to you the true words of God.

Flee from the torment of Abaddon; find succor in the embrace of the red God. Amen. Amarr Victor.

You are not True Amarr, and so you are not Chosen. You are Khanid, and in your embrace of the Sani Sabik heresy have cast aside God's Forgiveness and thus Damned yourself in His sight. At least the infidels outside the Empire have only turned from God once.