22 September 2022

Better Than The Future

Traveller lists an automatic pistol that's in 9mm, masses a kilo loaded and holds 15 shots.  It's firing 9x19 in all but name.

Star Frontiers lists an Automatic Pistol which is 2 kg, but it's really more like a MAC-10 than a pistol.

2300: AD is a lot more detailed about naming the handguns but only lists 4 handguns.  The Traylor Model 57 is a 9mm auto massing 0.7 kg loaded with 10 rounds of 9x24mm at about 9x19 velocities.

That's about it for chemical slug-throwers in SF games I have.

GURPS: Ultra Tech goes a lot farther and has guns which are better than modern day, but I think that comes from having real world guns in the system and the designers noting that they'd better be better than the real world or they're not going to be adopted.

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