energy-weapon

Updated: April 30, 2025

It made a flash, and roared louder even than a hand-blaster, and the cow jerked convulsively and was dead. The man then indicated by signs that Hradzka was to drag the dead cow out of the stable, dig a hole, and bury it. This Hradzka did, carefully examining the wound in the cow's head the weapon, he decided, was not an energy-weapon, but a simple solid-missile projector.

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