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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SKyOdin" data-source="post: 4983188" data-attributes="member: 57939">Japanese anime, particularly mecha anime, is full of all kinds of crazy sci-fi weapons and technology. For example, just about every Gundam continuity has at least one super-weapon capable of destroying a city or space colony in one shot. One of the most interesting is the very first: the Solar System, which was nothing more than a massive array of mirrors (each equipped with its own thruster system for adjusting its position) capable of focusing sunlight into a point. The resulting amount of heat was enough to wipe out an asteroid space fortress's defenses. At the same time there were the Solar Ray and Colony Laser weapons, which were space colonies that were converted into massive beam weapons capable of destroying entire fleets of ships.The Gundam SEED universe probably has the single highest number of super-weapons of any Gundam series. It has the Neutron Jammer (N-Jammer) that creates an energy field that halts nuclear decay, preventing the use of nuclear weapons or power reactors (which was used to trigger an energy crisis on Earth), the N-Jammer Canceler that allows nuclear weapons to operate inside of an N-Jammer's field, and the Neutron Stampeder that explosively accelerates nuclear decay within its effect range, causing otherwise stable nuclear weapons and reactors to detonate. It also had its own share of giant death weapons, like the massive "GENESIS" weapon that focuses a large quantity of gamma rays released from a nuclear detonation into a beam capable of destroying fleets or even irradiating the entire Earth. Later on, one faction builds the even more ambitious Requiem cannon, which combines a massive beam weapon installation on the moon with a series of orbital stations that can be repositioned to bend the beam from the moon so that it can hit anywhere on the Earth or in Earth's local space. I suppose even more minor technologies in the series are pretty interesting, like the Phase Shift Armor used by the Gundams in the series, which somehow uses electrical energy to augment physical armor so that it is completely invincible to any form of kinetic or explosive attack.Of course, any list of crazy weapons from the Gundam mythos isn't complete without mentioning Turn A Gundam's "moth wings". Turn A's Moonlight Butterfly system releases a massive cloud of nano-machines designed to destroy any electronic circuit or complex machine they come into contact with. A small fraction of Turn A's capabilities allowed it to cover the entire planet with these nano-machines (apparently, Turn A's full capabilities are completely insane, considering it is a weapon designed for inter-galactic warfare).There are plenty of cool weapons from elsewhere in mecha anime. For example, the Radiant Wave Surger from Code Geass is a very impressive weapon. The Radiant Wave Surger is a claw-like weapon mounted on the arm of a mech that can release a massive burst of energy radiation into anything the mech grabs hold of. Since this energy conducts along metal, the Radiant Wave Surger can completely destroy a mech by simply grabbing one of its limbs. Apparently, the burst of energy can be used to stop incoming bullets as well. Upgraded versions are even capable of firing a long-range beam that is likely to destroy the internal circuitry of anything it doesn't destroy outright.The Goldion Hammer from the Spper Robot series GaoGaiGar is another cool weapon. The bad guys from GaoGaiGar are a kind of alien made from nanomachines, giving them the ability to absorb surrounding material in order to grow and the ability to regenerate from almost anything. The Goldion Hammer combats them by using graviton shock-waves to completely annihilate any matter it comes into contact with, transforming it into harmless photons. The first time the Hammer is used, it takes out an miniature artificial sun. From the same series is the Solitary Wave Riser (aka Disc X), a weapon that functions a lot like a sound system, but releases waves that can destroy any kind of matter. However, what kind of matter it destroys depends of how the system is tuned. It can be used to specifically target a certain kind of matter or device, and destroy every instance of that object in a wide radius (say, destroy every dilithium crystal on a Star Trek ship, and leave everything else unharmed). However, if the device is used without the right data, it just destroys everything in its effect range, making it a somewhat dangerous weapon.This should be enough for now. I have a lot more, but this post is getting long enough.</blockquote>

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