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"Detonite" EAPS Slug
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create an armor piercing, explosive tipped slug for use by the G.W.S. and a limited amount of buyers
- Image Source: [X]
- Canon Link: N/A
- Restricted Missions: N/A
- Primary Source:
Acidic Bullet
- Cost: 850 Credits (per magazine)
Thirty-five per Magazine
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
- Manufacturer: Griffin War Solutions
- Model: EAPS
- Affiliation: Closed-Market
- Modularity: No
- Production: Limited
- Material:
Durasteel Casing - Glassteel Detonite Housing
Detonite
PHYSICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Classification: Explosive Compound with Thick Durasteel Casing
Weight: 15 Grams - [Light]
Cartridge Resistances: None
Target Efficacy:
- Light Armour: Extremely Effective
- Medium Armour: Highly Effective
- Heavy Armour: Moderately Effective
- Organic Material: Extremely Effective.
Case Length: 34mm
Overall Length: 37mm
Color: Silver and Black Casing, Black-tipped
SPECIAL FEATURES
- Detonite
- Explosive - The EAPS detonates upon impact with an object or enemy armor, it doesn't decide whoever or whatever is damaged. The detonation leaves a hole in the armor, allowing the smaller...less powerful payload on the interior to go through the enemy object, hopefully with no interference from any more armor or armor layers,
Armor-piercing
Weaknesses:
- Large - The EAPS slugs are quite large and often awkward to hold and carry.
- Loaded Individually - The EAPS can only be loaded into a slugthrower weapon at one time. This means, that you can only load one in at a time, then fire, then load in another. This is to help prevent the explosives inside of the bullet from going off all at once...fatally injuring or killing the user. However, there is an exception to vehicular weaponry as it can hold and carry more than one at a time.
- User Possibly Harmed - The EAPS can detonate on the user once the trigger is pulled, severely injuring the user and possibly killing them. Most injuries, however, result in the loss of the hand firing the slugthrower weapon...specifically the one pulling the trigger. There is an exception to this rule for one particular gun made by the G.W.S. to monetize on this manufacturing 'issue.'
The G.W.S. saw an opportunity for weapon manufacturing and great monetary gain and dove for the chance to do so. The idea...explosive, armor-piercing slugs. They were relatively easy for the G.W.S. to manufacture and then test. The only question is...how do they exactly work?
The slug can be loaded into most weapons that allow a large caliber of slug. Doesn't mean it should...but we will get back to that later. The loading process is rather straightforward, only with a catch. Only a single bullet can be loaded into a chamber and fired at a time. This is to help prevent possible mishap with the interior firing mechanism of the slug-thrower. If one should load two or more slugs into the weapon, nothing will happen. But once the trigger is pulled...the evidence is clear that they had made a clear and monumental mistake. When the firing mechanism is pulled and the bullet propelled forwards with more than one slug in the chamber...a slug tends to get stuck in the firing chamber. This results in one slug colliding with another slug, causing an explosion, the size depending on how many EAPS' are loaded into the chamber. Such as an explosion of five slugs will be greater than two and so on. More often than not, the user will either tend to lose a hand, get their arm loaded with shrapnel, or suffer burns up and down their firing arm...if unlucky, all three.
If someone fires the gun successfully with only one slug in the chamber, the process is rather straight-forward from their. The slug will be propelled forwards at monumental speeds before making contact with enemy armor. A mere mili-second before contact is made however the flaps on the back of the slug with open outwards before separating, making the end of the slug go just slightly slower as the explosion goes off. Once the explosion goes off, the end of the slug will be propelled forwards before piercing through the opening the explosion made.
