Fear is the Mind Killer
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION:
- Intent: A stealth Carbine / Shotgun for House Aquila
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- Market Status: Open Market
- Model: DS-66 Stealth Carbine - Pitohui
- Modularity: Yes
- Production: Minor
- Material:
- Durinium
- Refined Tibana Gas
- Phrik B
- Ionite A Laminate
- Maser Components
- Reflec Lens
- CROSS Shield
- UV Laser Sight
- Suppressor Unit
- 15x Variable Zoom Hybrid Sight
- Biometric ID Scanner
- Classification: Hybrid Carbine / Shotgun
- Size: Average
- Weight:
- Light
- Very Light (Short barrel)
- Ammunition Type: Gas Canister
- Ammunition Capacity: 50 or 250 - Small
- Effective Range:
- 35m or 350m - Average
- 25m or 250m - Personal (Short Barrel)
- Rate of Fire: Average
- Damage Output: Very High
- Recoil: High
- Hidden Fire: This weapons rounds and CROSS bend light and are invisible to the naked eye.
- Suppressed: The DS-66 has a suppression system which makes its rounds deceptively quiet.
- Charric: The DS-66 Fires charric maser blasts, which carry kinetic damage as well as heat / ion.
- Stealth Shield: This weapon employs a small field projector through its and other CROSS systems which hides the user from certain scanners.
- Wide Angle Blasts: The Pitohui is able to fire wide angle conical blasts of energy which are incredibly lethal to those within range.
- Rapid Fire: able to fire at 350 rp/m with wide angle or 950 rp/m in carbine mode this weapon is capable of semi automatic, 3 round burst or full auto firing.
- Phrik B Plating: A synthetic Phrik shelf that protects the user's hands in case of a misfire or the blaster gas being hit.
- Ionite Laminate Link: The Pitohui is shielded against the effects of Ion / EM weapons.
- Highly Modular: boasts several modular connection points for attachments, expanded power cells, gas canisters laser sights removable barrel etc.
- Ion Compatible: The DC-66 Pitohui can be retrofitted to be an Ion or Thermal weapon.
- Biometric Scanner: This weapon will not unlock or prime without a finger on the trigger, which can be registered to a specific user.
- Scanner Blind: using high quality materials such as Durinum alloy, this weapon is undetectable to most small scale scanners.
- HUD Link: The DS-66 is capable of linking to an active HUD relaying weapon information as well as sights and laser positions.
- Silent as the Grave: The DS-66 fires suppressed light bending energy blasts which are invisible to the naked eye as the weapon wraps a tight EM field around its blaster bolts to ensure it leaves no energy trail while out-doors and almost no sound, making this weapon an ideal stealth weapon for use in open or urban encounters.
- Shield Altering: The Pitohui integrates a 3' diameter CROSS system, integrating a lens made to replicate the effect of a reflec coating across the surface of the shield, acting as a sort of camouflage to blend the user's signal against the environment, protecting them to some degree from directional scanners such as IR or Unidirectional waveform scanners and being generally effective against stock equipment.
- Hybrid Damage: The energy rounds fired by this weapon are based on the chiss charric technology, meaning that whether it be calibrated to Ion or Thermal energy, they have a potent Kinetic component.
- Wide Rounds: This weapon has the ability to fire a singular high powered blaster bolt or wide angle high impact scatter-gun rounds which are capable of obliterating armour and shields at extreme close ranges as well as dealing considerable knock-back force thanks to its charric nature.
- Highly Customizable: This weapon is made with alteration in mind. Its energy cells and gas can be modified to make it compatible as an Ion weapon as well as a Blaster weapon. It also has modular rails along the barrel, under-barrel and sides combined with universal power point banks and blaster chamber attachments and even removable grips, scope, sights and even the trigger systems so that they may be replaced making this weapon one of the easiest on the market to customize to your own specifications.
- Full Auto: The DS-66 is capable of switching between Semi Automatic and Fully Automatic fire, with an altered firing rate between approximately 350 and 950 rounds per minute. The fully automatic shotgun nature of the Pitohui making it exceedingly lethal against singular targets.
- EM Shielded: The DS-66 uses Ionite Laminate in order to protect itself from ion blasts like grenades making it resistant to such efforts to shut its systems down as well as remain undetected from most scanners.
- Quick on the Draw: This light framed weapon, although requiring it to be primed for a moment, so long as its user is trigger ready, its light frame allows it for incredibly quick snap-fire potential.
- Wind Up: When the Biometric Scanner is activated, This weapon takes a couple of moments to power up or else the shots it fires are substantially weaker, making snap firing with this weapon difficult unless its already primed and ready to go.
- Limited: The Cross system while an effective and powerful shield is only front facing, leaving the user vulnerable to attacks from behind or at the legs if standing.
- Rapid Fire: CROSS shields, while able to handle the largest calibers of ammunition in their class with their reactive armour, are not fantastic and handling rapid fire weapons which shatter the individual layers of the shield extremely quickly.
- Physical Presence: While the CROSS itself remains undetected and confuses some visual sensors that attempt to see through its veil, the user themselves are prone to pulse base scanners such as Sonar and can be detected up close by more advanced systems or though more dedicated search.
- Energy Dispersal: While in its scattergun configuration this weapons projectiles completely disperse meaning that there is zero damage potential beyond its effective range.
After the creation of the incredibly successful DS-600, refining the technology into a more modular form seemed to be the natural next step for the Aquila Quartermasters Guild. Unlike the Owl as a self sufficient weapon system, the intent with the Pitohui was to create a weapon that, by it simply being in a soldiers arsenal would allow it to combine with and radically alter a person's role and capabilities on the battlefield. Changing a soldier from a rank and file soldier to someone capable of clearing corners and rooms in enclosed spaces with extreme proficiency.
This weapon comes packed with features, as a Directional Stealth weapon (DS Class) it packs a suppression system to effectively silence its blasts to little more than a light bass sound if a person is within a few meters of the attack, leaving it silent through walls or within about 10 meters. Additionally, the stealth system within the weapon combines with other CROSS shields that a person may be using, affording them active camouflage but lacking the exterior CROSS component to be able to project its own shield. Additionally, as a Maser weapon, the blast packs a huge kinetic punch, comparable to that of some live ammunition rounds or shatter-guns especially when using the wide angle shot option which is able to shred armour and throw a humanoid back half a dozen feet if shot within 5m.
Finally the stock guarantee of all house Aquila weapons is their customization options. Similar to the DS-600 the 66 has universal modular rails along the sides of the barrel as well as the top and under-barrel. Additional Modular rails can be found along the body and stock of the weapon. The weapon's stocks, grips, triggers, sights, scope, suppressor and even part of the barrel is removable to make it lighter but reducing effective range. Not to mention that the weapon can be calibrated with an alternate power source to be an ion or Thermal weapon, both of which will carry the kinetic properties of the Maser technology that it uses for especially effective output.
All in all the Pitohui is a particularly dangerous weapon that has made its name as an effective sweeper in close quarters urban environments that earns its name as one of the most dangerous birds in the Avery.
This weapon comes packed with features, as a Directional Stealth weapon (DS Class) it packs a suppression system to effectively silence its blasts to little more than a light bass sound if a person is within a few meters of the attack, leaving it silent through walls or within about 10 meters. Additionally, the stealth system within the weapon combines with other CROSS shields that a person may be using, affording them active camouflage but lacking the exterior CROSS component to be able to project its own shield. Additionally, as a Maser weapon, the blast packs a huge kinetic punch, comparable to that of some live ammunition rounds or shatter-guns especially when using the wide angle shot option which is able to shred armour and throw a humanoid back half a dozen feet if shot within 5m.
Finally the stock guarantee of all house Aquila weapons is their customization options. Similar to the DS-600 the 66 has universal modular rails along the sides of the barrel as well as the top and under-barrel. Additional Modular rails can be found along the body and stock of the weapon. The weapon's stocks, grips, triggers, sights, scope, suppressor and even part of the barrel is removable to make it lighter but reducing effective range. Not to mention that the weapon can be calibrated with an alternate power source to be an ion or Thermal weapon, both of which will carry the kinetic properties of the Maser technology that it uses for especially effective output.
All in all the Pitohui is a particularly dangerous weapon that has made its name as an effective sweeper in close quarters urban environments that earns its name as one of the most dangerous birds in the Avery.
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