FMS-2 Field Projector AKA 'Stalwart Blade'

[OsakanOne]

Yes, but how often do the Samurai fight against other Samurai?

They obviously don't have the physical strength and speed to slice up bullets or take a round capable of turning a human head into jello.

And if they do, that's one more reason I and many people I know won't play Neko characters.

 

[Fred]

Actually, Kotori did that bullet parrying thing once, and she's only had a fourth of a Ketsurui samurai's training ^_^;

The trick was to register the impact point of a shot by determining where a firearm is aiming on her body and then super-imposing the path in between with a TA-14 diamond-edge knife (or other reasonably sturdy blade) at an angle to block/deflect the blow.

PING! With a snarl, Kotori galvanised her hurting body into moving and swatted the incoming bullet out of the air with the flat of her knife. The PNUgen neko gaped for a moment - her opponent's move being surprising for a neko, let alone a burned victim - and fired another burst of shots that Kotori hurtled herself torward, the knife blurring in the air as it intercepted most of them and - heedless of the few shots that had hit her in the chest - the burnt Kotori slammed herself into the other neko.

The problem is parrying the shots of a weapon with a high rate of fire. The recoil and irregular movement of a person's arms (even a neko's) makes it impossible to accurately compensate if many shots are fired at once, not to mention there is the difficulty of just keeping a grip on the bladed weapon to keep it from flying off from the diverted momentum of the speeding bullet/energy bolt.

 

[OsakanOne]

The problem is parrying the shots of a weapon with a high rate of fire. The recoil and irregular movement of a person's arms (even a neko's) makes it impossible to accurately compensate if many shots are fired at once, not to mention there is the difficulty of just keeping a grip on the bladed weapon to keep it from flying off from the diverted momentum of the speeding bullet/energy bolt.

So why not create a field which can absorb and channel the kinetic energy back to re-enforce the field's structure or shift it to better stop the object?

The recoil of the impact, I admit isn't something I can picture fixing in the short term but as for the aim, what if it were like wafting a flame or like the visual effect of a light-saber, leaving some of whatever was there behind?

A quick twirl and a short burst from a weapon is deflected, even if it doesn't meet the sharpened broadcast shaft (known as the humble blade )

 

[FM]

Design modified upon suggestions from OsakanOne, that admittedly took place weeks ago. Awaiting criticism and/or approval.

 

[FM]

It's been a few weeks with no response. Bump?