Spaceship Weapons - What Would You Use?

[Pickles]

Space weaponry offers so many challenges and what ifs that it is rather difficult to pick a single space weapon. Although I'm currently a bit biased by my reading of The Risen Empire and The Killing of Worlds (by Scott Westerfeld), I am a fan of high velocity microscopic projectiles, such as sand. Sand at high speeds (even just a few hundred kph) will rip things to shreds, and if we're talking the truly mind-boggling scales of your average space opera these grains of sand are probably moving at hundreds of kilometers per second, and can cause their targets to literally melt.

[Capfeister]

Torpedoes, just because the only thing I love more than submarine sims is yelling "Fire ze torpedoes!" A close second would be lasers that make a "bwoowoowoowoowoo" sound like in the old Buck Rodgers tv show.

[Ruugab]

I am glad we are a community of missile launchers

[FreakTheKing]

Missiles can be shot down, and Ruugab's all, "oh how I love misls, everyone should love misls because I love misls" thing he's got going on doesn't phase me.