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Personal weapons built around different kinds of power

The force lance, Erebus and C-14 Impaler suggest different meanings of a powerful personal weapon: versatility, attacks through cyberware and high projectile output.

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Question

Which science-fiction setting has the most powerful handgun or personal combat arms?

Short answer

The choices include Andromeda's versatile force lance, Warhammer's varied arsenal, Cyberpunk's Erebus and StarCraft's fast-firing C-14 Impaler.

Notes

The preferred weapons serve different purposes. Andromeda's force lance combines a staff and firearm with the ability to provide automatic defence behind its user. Warhammer 40,000 supplies a wide range of alternatives, including grav, melta, flame, laser, bolter and volkite weapons. Foxo favours Cyberpunk's Midnight Arms Erebus, describing its hostile AI effect as a way to defeat even a heavily armoured opponent with advanced cyberware. StarCraft's C-14 Impaler is praised for a claimed thirty rounds per second, extremely high projectile speeds and sophisticated target-tracking software. These are competing choices drawn from different fictional settings, with versatility and unusual effects competing against sheer firepower.