Lex-El
An Honest Man
Intent: The purpose of this submission is to provide Blas-Tech Industries with it's first type of slug ammunition after it was procured during a private operation. This is a direct copy of the product made by Czerka Industries at half the price essentially, corporate sabotage at it's finest.
Development Thread: Here it is.
Manufacturer: Blas-Tech Industries
Model: 5.56mm Slug
Affiliation: Blas-Tech Industries
Modularity: Yes (12.7mm, 9mm, 7.62mm)
Production: Mass
Material: Durasteel
DESCRIPTION:
For millennia, the slugthrowers that frequented the Galaxy utilized ammunition that had little to no form of standardization. In fact, save for a handful of models here and there, the slugs required to make avid usage of a slugthrower became few and far between for those lacking a decent source. This fact became a painfully apparent part of reality for those wielding slugthrowers, especially with their usage quickly becoming dwarfed in favor of the usage of blasters. When Czerka Arms was reunited under the leadership of Tyri Lsu, one of the first orders of business was to solve this issue of ammunition; for what was the point of designing and manufacturing new lines of weaponry if the procuring of ammunition was a difficult task?
As such, the 5.56mm BASIC Slug was born: a standard round that could be provided to clients in mass quantities and universally utilized within the vast majority of impending Czerka Arms rifles. Of course, with weapons differing in length and specialization, such as sniper rifles or pistols, additional sizes derived from the 5.56mm were created subsequently; and were made just as available as the 5.56mm BASIC.
As a whole, the 5.56mm BASIC Slug excels in terms of performance. It boasts the capability to penetrate, on average, between forty and fifty centimeters of soft tissue upon impact; and has been known to fragment in order to dramatically augment the potential damage done to the body. Furthermore, when fired from the standard rifle of the new Czerka Arms' line at its maximum range of five hundred meters, the 5.56mm BASIC Slug has the capacity to penetrate up to two and a half milimeters of durasteel. What's more, this penetration capacity increases as the distance between the target decreases.
With this design now being made by Blas-Tech due to the thievery of Jacen Cavill, the company will keep the weapon the same but sell it at half the price. Thus destroying Czerka's hold on the slug-thrower market
