Item Seed: Reverse-Gravity Bullets.

Reverse-Gravity Bullets – Google Docs

Reverse-Gravity Bullets

 

The name says it all: getting shot with one of these bullets (which can, quite inexplicably, fit into virtually any chemical-reaction firearm, somehow)  will cause gravity to reverse for the target for about five seconds. In practical terms, on Earth the target will accelerate upwards at about 30 feet per second, go up about 150 feet or so, then probably fall right back down again as gravity reasserts itself.  All of which assumes that there isn’t a ceiling or something in the way.  

The weight limit for a Reverse-Gravity Bullet is about 250 lbs or so; if the bullet can’t affect the entire target, it won’t work.  Pieces merely attached to the larger item can still be affected, though. Welds protect, rivets or glue won’t.

 

Use of Reverse-Gravity Bullets on any planet with a gravity above that of Earth’s moon is considered to be a violation of the laws of war.  Also the laws of physics before about 2720 AD on Earth’s calendar, but that’s a relatively minor issue. Also: getting this ammo is difficult, since it comes exclusively from highly-advanced Elder Races who typically use it to get the merely semi-evolved Galactic species out there (read: species like us) to do simple little jobs for them.  And no, the jobs are rarely simple or little.  But isn’t that how it always works, right?