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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eltab" data-source="post: 7494794" data-attributes="member: 6803337">Do you have a sketch of where everything is, relative to each other?  Important scenery features / objects we should know about?It is plausible, but technologically on the bleeding edge, that the crowd at a distance can be protected.It is not plausible to protect the hero in this matter.  It would be more plausible for the hero to hotwire the bullet-interceptor and shoot at the villain.I imagine that the protective system would be similar to President Reagan's original "Star Wars" / Strategic Defense Initiative concept, on a smaller scale.  You would want to deflect the bullets downward, into the ground, if outdoors.  If indoors, into walls, padded ceilings, &c that can be repaired easily.  Your nightmare is that you hit a bullet and it shatters into a cone of still-fast-moving fragments that act like shotgun pellets.  Perhaps the interceptor-bullets are magnetic and the whole thing sticks together and heads off in a different direction, sum of the vectors (plus is no longer aerodynamic).The big problem I see is that your computer has to scan the area, detect the bullets, not have false positives (a dragonfly), calculate their flight trajectories, detect and adjust for wind, calculate intercept trajectories, turn your own machinegun to the correct direction, fire, repeat while the villain's bullets are still in mid-flight.P.S.  I remember reading this in Arm in Arm, a book of almost-nonsenseBULLETIN -- BULLETIN -- BULLETINShott shot at Nott.Nott, not wanting to be shot, shot at Shott.Nott's shot shot Shott's shot.Luckily, neither Nott nor Shott was shot.</blockquote>

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