Nuclear Blaster

Item from Foundation by Isaac Asimov

Standard sidearm of the Foundation era — compact nuclear-powered energy weapon that gave the Foundation decisive military superiority over neighboring kingdoms that had regressed to chemical propellants.

Also known as: blaster, nuclear sidearm, Foundation blaster

What They Know

• Nuclear-powered energy weapon that gave the Foundation decisive superiority over technologically regressed kingdoms
• The power cell provides thousands of shots — effectively unlimited in skirmishes
• Foundation missionaries distributed nuclear blasters within a religious framework, calling them holy weapons
• As technology spread, the blaster's advantage diminished and the Foundation shifted to economic dominance

Connections

• belongs_to — terminus
• produced_by — terminus

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