Mass driver

From Imperial Wiki
Revision as of 14:15, 1 January 2010 by Ted C (talk | contribs)
Jump to navigation Jump to search

A mass driver is a weapon that propels a very massive object toward a target. It's a "sci-fi chic" term for things like cannons and railguns.

Examples

  • In Babylon 5, mass drivers are weapons of mass destruction used to bombard planets from orbit, using near-orbit asteroids as ammunition.