AMCO
I'm Sorry Dave
- Intent: Discount whistling birds for the Open Market; quantity has a quality all of its own.
- Image Source: Hive Mine Sketch Concept by Nathaniel Scherer
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: Whistling Bird
- Manufacturer: The Globex Corporation
- Affiliation: Globex Security Division
- Market Status: Open-Market
- May not be legally available to all clients; please consult your local grey market.
- Model: Deathwasp-series Type-Standard Antipersonnel Projectiles
- Modularity: Significant.
- May trade the baradium charge for extra armouring/propellant: better penetration, less damage potential.
- May feature personalised targeting systems and protocols, e.g., aiming to maim instead of kill.
- May carry alternate payloads, e.g., stun charges, incendiary charges or even FEX-M3.
- Production: Mass-Produced
- Material: Synthetic Diamond-tipped Durasteel Shell, Minituarised Electronics.
- Classification: Homing Projectile
- Size: Very Small
- Weight: Very Light
- Explosive Type: Baradium Microcharge, Shrapnel.
- Delivery Method: Self-Propelled
- Effective Range: Personal
- Area Of Effect: Pinpoint
- Damage Output: Average
- Deathwasps are tiny, rocket-propelled projectiles with microcomputers and rudimentary targeting systems; they are designed to seek out and terminate infantry over fairly short distances, breaching joints, visors, and the like then detonating their microcharge.
- May be deployed from vambraces, grenades, artillery shells, Hive-Mines (see art), and more.
- Deathdealer: Deathwasps are designed to pierce joints, visors, and the like, as well as seek out unarmoured flesh; they will usually target heads or the centre of mass over extremities, seeking to rip through armour and flesh to cause internal bleeding and deliver their payload.
- Microblast: The tiny payloads carried by Deathwasps are primarily viable inside a target, but directly outside may do.
- Armourclad: While designed to seek out joints, Deathwasps are far from perfect - especially against heavy infantry.
- Destructible: Deathwasps are far more destructible than Whistling Birds - an issue, if one wishes to hunt Jedi.
Hardly known for its humane inventions, the reputation of Globex's Experimental Weapons Division (ExAD) is unlikely to improve with the creation of the so-called Deathwasps. While some may dismiss them as cheap imitations of the Mandalorians' "whistling birds", the wise tactician realised than on the field of war quantity has a quality all of its own - a fact demonstrated best by the success seen by properly-used droid armies.
A thoroughly frightening weapon, for the average infantryman, the unleash a distinctive hiss as they travel through the air, usually followed mere moments later by contact with some poor soul; if they succeed in piercing joints or other vulnerable sections, death or horrific injuries are all but guaranteed, though they have been known to miscalibrate and pass through a limb without detonating - piercing a visor is usually lethal, duh.
While some would certainly condemn them as "inhumane weapons", Globex's ethics division concluded that "dead is dead, it's fine".
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