This weapon would be kinda like the flamethrower, but with different visuals and a slightly different effect.
It would look like some kinde of big, blue-ish leafblower wich spouts out a bright, shining cloud of plasma with electric currents running down the tip of the barrel when fireing.
As plasma is ionized (electrically charged) gas, the cloud could do electrical damage to especially vehicles, aside from the obvious damage gas hotter than the sun's surface would do to flesh and metal.
Ofcourse, this weapon would need some kind shield with a visor, kinda like a big welding mask, to protect the user from the extreme heat.
To be able to fire the thing without doing bigass selfdamage, the user would have to AIM the weapon first, limiting it's effectiveness.
The weapon should be very bulky to house the ultra-compact fusion reactor, wich produces plasma out of
Helium 3 (an isotope of the gas Helium), too. Therefore it'd make you run even slower than the railgun (but not too much).
As plasma rapidly diperses into the surrounding air when not bound by a magnetic field and because of the extreme heat transfer caused by the contakt with increasingly large portions of surrounding mass this weapon would only have about 1/2 of the flamethrowers range.
Secondary fire could be as follows: A high-power capacitator sends a current through the plasma, wich forces all the plasma in the fusion chamber out of the barrel. Effectively a plasma ball wich would disperse after going about three times as far as the plasma flame, costing as much as a whole Helium 3 canister of ammo and doing damage accordingly.
Special function key could turn off the fusion process and make the weapon spray super cool liquid Helium 3 (wich crawls against surfaces and walls) of allmost 0 Kelvin, wich would have 1/3 of the plasma's range, and stay on the floor for a short amount of time, freezing anyone who stays long enough in it's area of effect or gets sprayed directly with it.

I like it, sounds good, needs some editing but it would be cool.

The Skrith counterpart of the flamethrower ? Sounds nice could be used in that 2 team loadout (as talked somewhere else ina thread) But i would rather use ionized plasma from hydrogen (Tritium isotope)much more effective and easyer to make plasma out.

That is if you would like to make it more realistic

Hmm. . .maybe.

As long as it remains a plasma throwing leafblower with a shield at the base of the barrel.

Btw, this is what plasma looks like:



But Helium 3 doesn't make the wielder die of cancer and is more exotic, wich fits the skrith imho.

Read wikipedia for details:

Plasma can look very differently based on the temperature of the gas. It looks like that when it is fusing helium into carbon I think, then it gets more red as it fuses into heavier chemicals.

Hey, now you're saying, you could also make it charge up with the same flashy HUD item as the railgun. Charge it with special function, fire a plasma jet that sticks to surfaces for a while and sets players on purple flames, and
secondary would fire a ball wich could do electrical damage to it's direct surroundings (1/2 meter?) and disperses upon impact.

The gun would be powered with the ultimate fusion fuel Helium 3 and have 4 stages:

1: liquid, Helium 3 wich sticks for quite a while (and if you can code it crawls up surfaces and walls), does low damage and can freeze players.

2: white/magenta plasma wich does very high damage, but only sticks for a very short time.

3: magenta/purple plasma wich does high damage and sticks a short while.

4: purple plasma wich does medium damage, but sticks as long as the liquid Helium

I can imagine this would be pretty hard to code, but I'm totally oblivious about coding.

Plasma doesn't set anything on fire afaik, since plasma isn't any of the 3 most well known phases of chemicals. It is fire in itself, so all it does is to burn the target really badly upon contact. Would be the very same as the flamer I think.

Well, in m suggestion I spoke about plasma sticking to surfaces, the plasma flames are plasma sticking to a player/bot/vehicle.

That would be more like acid...

I know it's not a common thing for plasma to do, but all this are just suggestions. On second thought, the whole thing with the sticking plasma stings, though the liquid Helium would be cool: spray it on the ground and it crawls up walls, vehicles and players alike, freezing players and vehicles that step in it/drive over it to the ground, and totally freeze players that take a direct hit.

Offcourse this is all brainstorming. Main features would still be leafblower+shield+plasma-jet+compressed plasma ball=Skrith Ionized Gas Dispenser.

A better idea of how the weapon could work:

Primary: A plasma jet with four fusion levels: Helium 3, wathever fuses out of that, wathever fuses out of that, wathever fuses out of that.

Secondary: Charge he capacitator to shoot out a compressed plasma ball (wich could zap closeby targets). The longer you hold the trigger the faste and further the ball will fly. Overcharging will make the capacitator overload and explode, killing the user.

Special: Activate the fusion core. Hold in order to continue the fusion process. The fusion level stays constant, untill the fuel tank is depleted and the weapon is reloaded, after wih the chamber will be filled with Helium 3 again.

Btw, tell me if I brainstorm too much.

Helium-3 can't take place in fusion, only the standard Helium with the mass number 4.003. But otherwise this is a great idea for a weapon.

what you guys need for fusion is: helium-3 and deuterium. this mix is powerful and is not radioactive when fusing. a plasma thrower is not needed when we got the flamethrower. but a plasma ball launcher is better weapon instead of a plasma thrower.

primary fire shoots out a small plasma ball (projectile) with a refire half a second (2 shots a second).

secondary fire shoots a big plasma ball (projectile), uses a lot more ammo, refire of 2 seconds, and able to zap players and vehicles that are in very close proximity.

special fire sprays out the liquid gasses that can freeze players, it sticks to surfaces for a while and slowly vaporizes, and when hit by a plasma ball (no matter what size) it creates a plasma explosion.

i personally think this is more realistic and better.

lol i repeated the word "plasma" 8 times

What you are suggesting is just your generic, boring plasma rifle combined with an icethrower.
We allready got two skrith energy bolt weapons.
This weapon isn't completely like the flamethrower, we have got two machineguns, three shotguns, etc., so why wouldn't we have a plasma thrower? I'd realy like an RS team member's opinion on my idea.

-Edit- Oops, double-posted!

Where in that quote does it say that it can take part in fusion? Helium-3 is an isotope of the halogen Helium, only the halogen is known to take place in fusion, in the core of huge stars. But of course I could be wrong because I'm not very far in chemistry yet.

EDIT: I can see now what you mean. The Helium-3 can be fused when it is done in laboratories, I was talking about natural fusion.

ummm... Bjossi... that subject does not belong to chemistry but to physics.

Yes it does belong to chemistry, if you have the guts to tell it to my high school chemistry teacher, I can give you the email.

ummm.... oh, ok it belongs to chemistry.

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Got me there but i was just tinking since hydrogen is the most abundant element in space and stars in main sequence are composed of hydrogen in its plasma state.
And the Skrith are from outher space it would be easy to get for them

BTW fusion belongs both to chemistry and fysics its just a matter from wich point you look at it

Well, the human race is from outer space too...

There might be lots of helium 3 on the moon. (at least that's what they hope)

geez.. ok idea.. needs a bit of brushing up, but good basis

sound like it would be a simple weapon following the flamer...