Two Ideas

[sovereign]

EMP = Electromagnetic Pulse. "Pulse" means FOOOOM and then its gone. If it was a field, it would be called a field, not a pulse.

It's more a case of calling a squid a chicken because you haven't really seen squid before but you know the name chicken. Right kingdom, yes, but entirely different otherwise.

What you're looking for is a "bomb" that immobilizes everyone. While an EMP might accomplish this in real life due to frying everything (though it would have to be pretty serious, I mean we can spend time in star coronas without dying, ships must be pretty well sealed against radiation) that's not really what you wanted. You want everyone to stop moving... which sounds more like a stasis bubble. As in actually stopping time. If you add hijinks such that the expanding bubble has no matter penetration, it holds the outer layer of everything in absolute zero (i.e. not moving) but won't stop internal systems... like life support. Games-should-be-fun ex machina to allow comm chatter too, and you've got a prime negotiating tool.

Games-should-be-fun ex machina... I like the sound of that. I'll have to say it more often.



And I would so dig a docking prohibitor. It would need to be activated or toggled, otherwise the ship could never dock, but it would really come in handy when dumbass Outcasts dock on the Beuvray to escape the GRN, having gotten white rep by shooting any house military. I really need to park the Temeraire in gank range...

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