Natalie LaForte
~The Ghost watches~
- Intent: Personal weapon for Serenity, updating to new template
- Image Source: Riotgames
- Canon Link: N/A
- Restricted Missions: N/A
- Primary Source: Original concept
- Manufacturer: Serenity Loveheart
- Model: Modified Z-6 Rotary blaster cannon
- Affiliation: Serenity Loveheart
- Modularity: No.
- Production: Unique
- Material: Durasteel, blaster components, minor gold lacings
- Classification: Blaster cannon
- Size: Handheld
- Length: 1 metre
- Weight: 16.0 kilograms
- Ammunition Type: Power cell/Gas canisters
- Ammunition Capacity: 300/3 Gas canisters (2500 rounds per minute)
- Effective Range: Around 30 meters, otherwise the spread is too great to be hitting accurately. It's really useful at close range
- Rate of Fire: Fully automatic
- Optic view settings
- LED coloration
- Side mounted gas canister launcher
- Mobile holopad installed
- Optic view settings - Scanner mounted on top enabling various types of vision
- Mobile holopad installed - retractable holopad which can be used to surf the web to even contacting people during the fight. Powered by a small solar panel mounted on its side.
- LED coloration - The weapon's blaster rounds are set to go the full rainbow spectrum - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.
- Side mounted gas canister launcher - This is the main update in comparison to the original iteration. A small side mounted self-propelled gas canister launcher enables such projectiles to be shot out at a rapid speed. Usually though, it is something mundane as simple smoke, although anything can be placed in it as long as it fits the size.
Strengths:
- Suppression - The gun's main feature is just the amount of rounds it can put out in short succession, it's more meant to suppress a target than deal direct damage, although at close range it will do that as well
- No skill required (Sort of) - The gun was also made with the intention of being easy to use, it's easy to pick up with the hardest part of it now being the gas canister launcher
- Holopad - Just with the nature of having it, a mobile computer gives a multi-tude of possibility for combat enhancements
- I see you! - The holopad can be configured to scan from the mounted device in different view modes, such as thermal and UV waves.
- Heavy - People should be wary of picking this up, it's very heavy in comparison to other weapons
- Inaccurate - Just as it was said in its first advantage, it's meant for suppression at anything past medium range. At long range, you would be lucky to hit 1 in every 10 shots
- Solar powered holopad - Out of sunlight the pad only has around an hours worth of use, even more if you are actively using it. To make use of it, you also need to be looking down. Although there is an aim reticle on screen, it's not very useful.
- Very large - There's no hiding it, literally. This thing can't be hidden and needs to be directly carried. Don't bring it on stealth missions
After haven being stolen from an armoury located on her home Planet of Alderaan, some modification tools, some wise words from her father and about 2 days was what made this weapon become a reality. Her father was more than happy to help her after she came home, but did not feel the need to give her a weapon that she could kill people with. Thus a compromise of a minigun was made, a weapon that (he thought) would be too heavy for her to utilize, and even if she could, was so difficult to aim with that she would be arrested. The weapon itself was designed to be noticeable, and he even did the lazer modifications himself as a special treat for his little snowflake.
It has stayed with her ever since, and when your equipment is outdated it is time for an upgrade, and that is exactly what she did. Utilizing a vast array of new tools away from her, a few slaving hours in a research laboratory and even more spent in the test chambers, this is the final product that she came up with; without compromising on the original nature of the weapon.
The new design boasts a holopad, capable of communicating and switching view settings. Along with this, a gas canister launcher was installed for extra utility while still bolstering the 'girl with a big gun' sort of vibe.
(Also, it shoots pretty lasers)
