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Ed Kolis said:

Errm... did I just see projectile weapons CURVE? Tell me those were seekers... Maybe projectile weapons should just be removed entirely or limited to EXTREMELY short range?

You what? Get a lump of steel, a railgun and a target. Set them up in space- load the lump into the railgun and put the target at a relatively immobile position somewhere at the other end of the galaxy. Fire the lump at the target and you will find, a couple of billion years later, that it will impact the target with exactly the same force as it left the railgun with. Assuming that there's nothing else in the way, kinetic energy (projectile) weapons have an infinite range in space.

However, it is far harder to make a perfectly accurate KE weapon than a perfectly accurate beam weapon. Which implies you'd have a hell of a job hitting the target from that far away.

Nevermind.