As many of you know, there were... issues when I began preliminary work on designing 20mm ammunition for a possible LASR replacement rifle. People felt that such a thing was "too big", "Too impossibly heavy" and "No-one would ever use a 20mm or larger round as a primary weapon in the setting".
So I started looking around for examples of a reasonable bullet size, and I realized something important: Round Calibers are absolutely messed up.
This all started when I wanted to replace the primary service rifle for troops in PA, the
LASR.Which, as we all know, fires 7mm rounds. The rounds I were making were
20mm rounds, Which everyone said was completely out of line and something that no PA rifle should ever carry. So I went and looked that the caliber for the current Yamatain non-armored service rifle, the
Type 33, and saw that it fires 12.7mm rounds faster than the LASR.
Okay. Okay. So I looked around at the kinds of grenade launchers to see if 20mm was too huge and look what I found,
50mm grenades. At this point I just went "What." and went to look at the Nepleslian Powered Armors.
I did not find a soothing balm for my confusion, instead I found even more confusion. Take, for instance, the
NAM 'Light' Coilgun. Which fires 30mm rounds. Or take a look at this "average"
30mm Triple barreled machinegun. Or the
UMD, which uses rounds which are the diameter of a soda can. So about 52mm.
C-Can we talk about this? I feel like I'm being unfairly singled out, and Wes is being called crazy unfairly on his insistence on a 30mm caliber round, when kinetic weapons of these calibers are common among other powered armor.