A boser is a directed energy device. It is possible to utilise a boser as a smaller spacecraft weapon.
One well-known manufacturer of bosers was Breitenbach.
RS Glossary entry[]
Boser: Directed energy system employing coherent (Bose-Einstein condensate) matter, usually with a laser or particle-beam precursor.
- description from the official RS glossary [1]
Description[]
"One Breitenbach three-millimetre boser with a proton-electron precursor."
- Antoinette while enumerating the humbler weapon systems installed into Storm Bird [2]
All of the crewed trikes carried some form of armament, ranging from single-use grasers to gigawatt-yield Breitenbach bosers.
- excerpt from Chapter 34 of Redemption Ark [3]
References[]
- ↑ Revelation Space universe - RS Glossary - B, AlastairReynolds.com, the official website of Alastair Reynolds
- ↑ Redemption Ark (2002), Chapter 19
- ↑ Redemption Ark (2002), Chapter 34
See also[]
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| Ouroborus-class Worm | Weevil-class War Robot | Whiphound |
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