Very good point, I was trying to figure out how a railgun could be condensed, and I suppose a spiral pattern might work, however it could not be so condensed as to fit in the frame of a pistol.
Of course the mechanics of such would be uh, to put it simply, difficult.
It would be far...
Problem with such is that in order for you to have a UHV weapon, the rail must be much bigger than a PISTOL would allow. You would need at least a heavy machinegun to reach UHV speeds. You see, the railsize actually directly dictates how fast the slug will go, and if it takes more than one...
A couple of weeks ago on another forum (RPN), I brought up a couple flaws in the technology they were using in their role play world.
But I get ahead of myself. RPN is a roleplay board that I visit fairly often, as I do have a penchant for RP, especially good RP. However my hatred of purely...