The Sayat Menace wrote:
> Below.
>
> I met this game and this 'universe' a long time ago. It was always a boys' thing. I dealt. We all did, those who had to deal.
> Twenty years ago I proposed the Pelvic-Mount Plasma Gun, well within the scope of the rules at the time.
>I thought it was a shake-up, a hard josh, or at least an elbow-jostle, to the 'trend' at the time. I was wrong:
>I was already a crazy loony alone thing. That wasn't a 'trend'. It was REALITY.

I remember when you posted that.  Damn...

I remember seeing a picture space tourist Anousheh Ansari firing one of
those things during her training.

Personally, I think both the PMPG and the Soviet era weapon are the sort
of thing a Traveller character would carry.  Especially a member of the
IISS.

>
> SICK MEN. That's what "Traveller"(TM etc) means to me now.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jeffrey Schwartz<xxxxxx@gmail.com>
>> Sent: Feb 5, 2015 7:55 AM
>> To: tml<xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
>> Subject: [TML] Something for the ship's locker...
>>
 >>http://science-beta.slashdot.org/story/15/02/04/1821207/tp-82-the-gun-cosmonauts-carried-on-space-missions