Rusty
Purveyor of Fine Weaponry
- Intent: To create a special disruptor rifle for Darkwire
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- Manufacturer: Oxidation Industries
- Affiliation: Darkwire
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: DD-1
- Modularity: Interchangeable Optics
- Production: Minor
- Material: Plastoid, durasteel, Disruptor Components
- Classification: Disruptor
- Size: Large
- Weight: Average
- Ammunition Type: Proprietary disruptor cartridges
- Ammunition Capacity: Small
- Effective Range: Battlefield
- Rate of Fire: Average
- Damage Output: Low
- Recoil: Average
- Designed to destroy clothing and armor without killing the person wearing it
- Extremely long range
- Stunning- The DD-1 is designed primarily for bounty hunting work. Unlike most disruptors, which render the target down to its constituent atoms, the DD-1's beam is tuned to only break apart molecules that aren't surrounded by water at the molecular level. What does this mean? Living molecules that function as part of a cell are largely ignored, while things like cloth, most metals, plastics, etc, are destroyed in the usual way. This process isn't perfect. Hair, fingernails, horn, and other parts of the body that aren't typically hydrated are still affected. If you shoot a Wookiee, for instance, they can be instantly depilated, declawed, and depending on whether or not they've got dry mouth, detoothed, all at once. While this probably won't be fatal, the shock, plus the kinetic and thermal punch of one's clothes and armor being vaporized, has the potential to render most beings insensate.
- Reach Out and Touch Someone- Unlike most stun weapons, the DD-1 has legs for days. Under ideal conditions, the beam can travel through atmosphere for several kilometers before attenuating to the point of uselessness.
- Less Lethal- Unlike a traditional blaster, which can be changed from nonlethal to lethal fire at the flip of a switch, the DD-1 is only a stun weapon. The beam tuning requires a number of modifications to the traditional disruptor design, modifications which can't easily be reversed. Although it can maintain a decent rate of fire so long as the ammunition lasts, it is not a weapon meant to be used in life or death situations.
- Smol Mags- The DD-1 relies on a proprietary cartridge containing a special blend of tibanna gas, to function properly. As a result, she's fed from detachable box magazines. The relative size and density of the cartridges mean that fitting more than 5-10 in a single magazine is ill advised. Anything larger would be too heavy and cumbersome to be practical.
The DD-1 was commissioned by Darkwire to fill a very specific niche: a nonlethal but highly effective weapon designed for bounty hunters who like to operate at range.
The basic concept is simple enough. The disruptor has been around for ages, and while its use is often heavily regulated, the operating principles are well known. The DD-1 takes those principles and tweaks them just enough to be useful for the task at hand: peeling a target out of their armor and stunning them in the process. This is accomplished by focusing the beam to resonate at the same atomic frequency as water, a common substance found in great quantities of most carbon-based lifeforms at the cellular level. This allows it to pass harmlessly through living cells, primarily interacting with inorganic molecules found in cloth, metals, plastics, and so on. So, while the beam will do for leather, since it's typically dehydrated, it wouldn't have any effect on the same hide still on the target animal. When it does meet a compatible material, the beam does what disruptor beams usually do, and the thermal and kinetic energy punches, although brief, are typically enough to pummel the target into unconsciousness.
An odd, but often hilarious quirk of the DD-1 is that while it won't harm living tissue, it can absolutely wreck "dead" cells, such as the sorts found in hair, fingernails, horn, antlers, and so on. Teeth have the potential to be affected, depending on the composition, but in that case, the damage usually stops at the gum line. As mentioned above, if you shoot a Wookiee, they can quite easily be instantly denuded. Not only is this the funniest thing most folks will ever see on the job, it also means that the target is instantly recognizable and easily tracked, should they somehow remain conscious throughout the process. The process isn't pleasant, but it's also not fatal, and that's the important part.
Of course, there are materials that the DD-1 can't do much against. As a general rule, if it can stop a lightsaber blade, it can stand up to the DD-1. Nonetheless, for those aspiring bounty hunters who want the ability to knock out and shave their targets all in one go, accept no substitutes.
