I came across this article: http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/m...pper-usat_x.htm

Yes, this is also one of the reasons cell phones have more or less taken over the phone market in places like the Philippines. You can put armed guards and a fence around your celluar phone repeater and be pretty sure it won't wander off in the night.

Yeah, I always thought how it was pretty ninja you could just steal monowire and make a huge profit. That's why as a GM I would mostly used normal barbed wire.

Corps in my game use monowire. Corps are also generally not entirely stupid. I'll leave the reader to make the conclusions.

~J

Electrified monowire.

Its pretty bad here in hawaii too. Copper wire and such getting stolen from highway lights, schools. Kinda sad actually.

A burnt out wire doesn't buzz anymore.

i always figured the best use of monowire is in places no one's supposed to go anyway. when the lights go out at night, string a few lines of monowire around the yard. barbed wire is great because it's visible; almost anything you'd use to bypass it will stand out to a casual observer--like, say, a guard on patrol. monowire, though, isn't much use unless its presence and location are not generally known.

and while you couldn't run any serious amount of voltage through a monowire line, you could run enough to detect if it gets cut. there are ways around that, too, of course, but it's one more thing for infiltrators to deal with.

it grows an organic jetpack. i'm not going to get into all the scientific details, but it's very true and very scary.

I think the most horrendous use for monowire that I've come up with is actually quite a simple idea. In fact, I can sum it up on one word: Netgun.

Monowire also makes an appearance at any time when you can't easily stop, such as a pit or a vertical shaft (air conditioning or otherwise).

Wide-swath lawnmowers (for very, very large fields) are also made using monowire. Nothing like a lawnmower that's about the same size as a floor buffer being able to mow a path 100 yards wide. Just don't step off while it's running...

Heck with grenade launchers. There's already bolo-style ammo for shotguns today.

Monowire shotgun bolo rounds?


-karma

What a fantastically complicated way to shoot someone.

maybe you could rub the monowire with garlic, so it poisons your targets.

Nah, wooden monowire is best. It causes extra damage to vampires.

Well, the Frag-12 shotgun round is also a fantastically complicated way of shooting someone too, but it's still being developed.

Back to the grenade thingy, a number of models of fragmentation grenades in the past have used notched wire wrapped around the explosive charge as part of the "fragmentation" part of the device.

Is there any reason you couldn't substitute monowire?


-karma

Because monowire, having virtually no mass, has virtually no momentum. It's like throwing a hair at someone to kill them. Monowire, even if we're willing to believe it could exist, still needs to be weighted.

I've always figured the substantial difference between razor or barbed wire and monowire, was that barbed or razor wire is meant to serve as a deterrent against climbing a barrier or fence.

While monowire was to cut the intruder off at the shins after he's on the property, and let him lie in a pool of his own blood until the morning shift comes in and discovers him.

hmm, a gun shooting razorwire. im thinking SLA industries here

I was thinking that too... can't remember the name of the weapon, though. "KPS Mangler" comes to mind, but I think that was a shotgun...

If you're talking about the standard cyberpunk-style flechette (basically, a sharp cloud of crap), then how's either better than bullets?

I do like that idea of a monowire net-gun.

Especially if the target has enough time to stand there and blink in surprise for a moment before sliding apart into hamburger.




-karma

The razor-wire weapon was designed less as a weapon of ULTIMATE DESTRUCTION then as something that's designed for people with no clue how to use a firearm (and makes itself a danger into everyone in your freakin' frontal arc to compensate.)
The best comparison is not a netgun or shotgun, but a directional frag grenade.

Wow, I'd hate to be anyone resembling an innocent bystander downrange of that gun, especially since it's intended for those who don't have a clue how to shoot in the first place. At least with the conventional weapon, they might miss...

SLA industries are not about realism by a long shot.
if anything is a nightmare with cyberpunk elements.

the gun in question si one GAB chopper.

the wire is basicly stored in a similar manner to a coiled spring. it can either allow one end of the wire to be connected to the weapon after firing, or it can release it so that it can wrap around the target.

much of the equipment in SLA is designed to be cool, in a gothic kinda way...