Why use disruptors instead of phasers?
Major Kira explains the pros and cons to Ziyal in DS9.
>>64198703That's a difference of small arms design, not inherent capabilities of the beam types. It's also a boomer-ass AR/AK debate pretending to be in disguise.
>>64198567Disruptors can bleed through armor. Phasers have to destroy it to get past.
>>64198567Simplicity. Why buy a universal remote when you only have one television?
>>64198567disruptors are usually stronger than phasers and are better in a military application, even if they aren't as flexible. not sure when a starship would need to mass phaser an entire city at its lowest power and widest spread setting in order to stun everyone in that city but starfleet deemed it possible enough to use phasers over disruptors for their ships. with how prevalent they are compared to phasers I would assume they're also simpler to make.
>>64199046Photons are the Federation counterpart to disruptors as main weapons. Everyone used phasers.Romulans and Gorn used plasma torpedoes as their main weapon.
>>64198567Wide bandvsNarrow band
>star trekeven on /k/ i can't escape this curse
>>64199217you have weak pah.
>>64199346no i just have a terminal trekkie in my house
>>64198567Maybe I want to stay in phase and just fuck shit up
>>64199361And the trekkie has to put up with a /k/omrade, so it evens out.
>>64199409no i'm just a tourist here, i don't even have any guns, i just shoot on a range occasionally
>>64199046>not sure when a starship would need to mass phaser an entire city at its lowest power and widest spread setting in order to stun everyone in that cityThey did exactly that in TOS, slthough the exact episode escapes me.Also kinda paints the Federation quite dystopic, doesn't it? If some city or planet gets uppity they can just rock it to sleep, then snatch the leaders and perpetrators while everyone sleeps.>>64199111That is specific to Starfleet Battles and Starfleet Command, both games of apocryphal status.
>>64199524>If some city or planet gets uppity they can just rock it to sleep, then snatch the leaders and perpetrators while everyone sleeps.Is that worse than blowing it up?
>>64198703>>64198716A hand-disruptor and a hand-phaser might as well be different weapons entirely. One is optmized to be a smal arm that never runs out of ammo and can put holes into humanoids all day, while the other is basically an anti-tank weapon that can be tuned down to cause various levels of harm to people down to stunning, at the cost of burning through its power packs like potato chips in comparison.
>>64201601You tell me if you'd rather be dead than living in a police state hiding behind smiles and universal care. Personal preference, really.>>64201614Phasers don't draw much power either if you don't set them to tank-be-gone.>>64198703I think something Kira didn't mention was availability of both weapons and spares. Plenty of rugged Cardassian weaponry around while all Fed guns would've had to be smuggled in and made the Bajorans reliant on an external supplier's graces and whims, and we have a contemporary example on how well that works.Fed phasers are versatile weapons *and tools* that can pull off pretty much any trick the user can think of, but the logistics train to keep them running was damn near impossible. After the occupation, the Bajorans switched to producing their own phasers.So to circle back to the original thread question, you use a disruptor if you want a weapon and nothing else, and you want to build it to last. When you want a multitool that can act as a decent gun, you invest in phasers.
>meme fake gun vs meme fake gun'
>>64199524In the Mafia planet episode Kirk has Enterprise stun an entire block to stop a mob war.
>>64198703no she doesn't. she describes the RIFLES, not the beams.
>>64198703https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RMxOD5QnGX8
>>64202018>stop having fun!I bet you're one of those fudds that thinks the good ol' plasma rifle is better than one of them fancy shmancy phasers or disruptors.
Disruptors are to phasers what red light sabers are to blue/green light sabers, it's just the bad guy weapon>boooo! no fun allowedAlright fineI always figured it's a matter of priorities.Disruptors are better weapons if your goal is to kill whatever you shoot dead whereas phasers are more of a multi-tool for the post-scarcity, sanctimonious hippy navy.Phasers are used for everything from a light tap on the shoulder, to stunning, to heating rocks up, to emitting specific bands to do some plausible-sounding science-y bullshit to straight up incinerating people.Disruptors are for disintegrating bad guys, or as The Federation calls them, the good guys.
>>64198567Real question is what will you arm your freighters with?
Disrupters can't stun as far as I know
>>64206261I smell ferengi on that ship
