“No weapons designer or engineer would build something with such an arbitrary weakness,” he said. “The Disrupter is more like something a videogame developer would come up with, to create a big challenge at the end of a level – a boss that requires a huge sacrifice to destroy.”

“No weapons designer or engineer would build something with such an arbitrary weakness,” he said. “The Disrupter is more like something a videogame developer would come up with, to create a big challenge at the end of a level – a boss that requires a huge sacrifice to destroy.”

— Ernest Cline