Twilight of the Mind is out!

[gwillybj]

The diplomat asked:
How exactly does a sin gun work? The book says it is a cannon powered by an artificial black hole. There are passages that suggests that it is almost as powerful as a planet buster. Is the black hole just the power source, or does the cannon shoot black holes? I imagined that it shoots a black hole which evaporates on target causing a large planet buster like explosion.

from flavor.txt:
#SINGULARITY LASER
Active medium: Temporal boundary
Type: Singularity induction
Pulse duration: Relative
Wavelength: .001 nm
Peak power: N\A (approach inf.)
Burn rate (1m steel): Relative

The artificial black hole would be the power source. It is contained within an electromagnetic field which, when opened in the direction of the target, projects a momentary rift that separates the target's atoms not only from physical contact but also from their place in time. When the rift collapses, its energy is released in a thermonuclear explosion, destroying any remaining atoms that weren't spread across the space/time continuum, never to be rejoined.
I think that's how Star Trek and Andromeda tell it.

[The diplomat]

Originally posted by DataAeolus


And you just told me how it ends. Typing "Spoilers Caution" or something akin would have been a form of courtsey.

Ah well at least I can narrow my reading list by a bit.

I am so sorry. Since the book came out a long time ago, I assumed everybody on this board except me had already read it.

Again, I am sorry if I ruined it for you. It was not intentional.

[Barinthus]

The diplomat, I know it wasn't intentional. Just wanted to ask you to be more hmm considerable in future. No hard feelings .

If we happen to be in a PBEM game, you could become my submissive to make up .