Behold! The EARLY makings of a PULSAR RIFLE, of sort, that looks very much like the pulsar rifles carried by the Centurions in the original series!
http://gizmodo.com/watch-a-fully-automatic-electromagnetic-pulse-rifle-dem-1067282198
By the way. It's ironic that the Colonial Warrior side arms had small cylindrical rechargers. In theory it was for power, but it could also hold lots of small projectiles...maybe, if the real lethality was the directed energy, electromagnetism, plasma, what ever that went with such projectiles.
Anyway, cool present day Sci-Fi tech becoming Sci-Fact.
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Here's the actual video of the guy explaining how it works (and how to make it if you're a genius electrical engineer, or super-geek who knows about that sort of stuff), and also actual test firing.
http://gizmodo.com/5643971/watch-this-125-kilojoule-diy-coilgun-sma...