Talk:Archwing/@comment-88.192.102.89-20141019174518/@comment-62.78.190.20-20141023035926

^ A Gatling per definitionem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_cannon) has a stack of rotary barrels with a dedicated breech attached to each. The Gorgon, self-evidently, lacks such and is presumably some kind of chain gun though God only knows why the Grin engineers thought it necessary to add such pointless complications into a small arm...

Uh, Soma? Everyone's favourite banana-mag crit machine? You're probably thinking of the Supra which shares the Gorgon's "spin-up" trait, but as that thing's an energy weapon (if spitting out glowing sausages now counts...) it's sort of hard to think of any kind of justification for that beyond "for the lulz".

Speaking of rotary-barrel weapons, it occurs to me that aren't those slightly pointless in the kind of hard vacuum the Archwing will presumably nigh exclusively be used in? A major point of the design is heat management, but without atmosphere to serve as a heat sink the stack of rotating barrels loses its cooling function and all that mass would likely be better employed in heat pumps and radiators...

Actually given all the complications inherent in using projectile weapons in free-fall (recoil springs to mind) you'd really think the Archs were just kitted out with pew pew lazors and missiles instead, but it's not like Warframe and common sense had much truck with each other anyway.