more magi-tech

[kengr]

A few scenes that have featured in some of the daydreams about using Trek type tech now.

A drug deal is about to go down. Cue transporter effect and all the drugs, money and illegal weapons vanish.

A variant, leave the weapons until after they finish shooting at each other.

Terrorist group of your choice. Cue transporter effect. Weapons disappear. So do terrorists. The terrorists reappear in whatever place they'd least want to be. Holding cells, in front of families of victim (especially in cultures that go in for "personal" revenge), etc.

Comments

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

I suggest taking the money and at least some drugs but not the guns. Then you have annoyed heavily armed drug dealers confronting other heavily armed drug dealers, which could be a self-solving problem. Once all of the noise dies down and anyone still mobile evacuates, you put the drugs back. This leaves the police a situation that generates paperwork but no awkward questions. Your people with the teleporter should be able to find something useful to do with money.

[kengr]

Eh, with the sensors *and* the transporter, finding shipwrecks and the like is trivial. Ditto for "lost mines".

Cash, especially cash that's been used in drug deals can be problematic at best.

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

Could be. But with a whole world to choose from there are plenty of charities (and needy individuals) who'd be plesantly surprised to find a pile of cash.

[xander-opal.livejournal.com]

Mining becomes a trivial thing. Depending on limitations, one could scoop out bits of mantle or deeper.