Work In Progress Etheric Pulse-wave blaster

[Tae'l Vizsla]

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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

• Intent: Create a personal blaster for Tayl Vizsla and create a base for future Etheric Weaponry
• Image Source: Vlad Shpakov
• Canon Link: N\A
• Permissions:
  • Manufacturing(Jackal)
  • Etheric modulation(Burtch)
  • M.I. "Hunter-seeker" fire control(Purchase)
• Primary Source:
  • Pulse-wave blaster
  • Etheric modulation component
  • Staccato lightning cannon
    • Inspiration:
      • Volcanic repeating pistol 1854
      • McCree's Ultimate(Overwatch)
      • The Last Word(Destiny 2)
      • Las gun sound effect WH40k

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

• Manufacturer: Jackal
• Affiliation: Tayl Vizsla
• Market Status: Closed-Market
• Model: Prototype Etheric-wave Blaster
• Modularity:
  • Stun firing mode
  • Semi-automatic firing mode
  • Enhanced Semi-automatic firing mode
• Production: Unique
• Material:
  • Bronzium
    • Decorative
  • Turadium
    • Carapace & trigger
  • Durasteel
    • Internal parts
  • Solarium Glasteel
    • Optics
  • Taung War Oak
    • Grips

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

• Classification: Etheric-wave Weapon
• Size: Small
• Weight: Average
• Ammunition Type: Etheric-wave bolt
• Ammunition Capacity: Very Small(20)
• Effective Range: Average(50m)
• Rate of Fire: Very High(900rpm)
• Damage Output:
  • Extreme
    • Etheric
• Recoil: Average

SPECIAL FEATURES

Distinct Snap Sound

• Fires Sea-green bolts of Etheric Matter
• Safety select knob:
  • Safety
  • PEP stun setting mode
    • Single shot
  • Semi Automatic
  • "Enhanced Semi-auto" Hairpin Unlock
    • Holding down the hammer decreases pull weight significantly
    • Pre-emptively releases a small amount of coolant to compensate for increased rate of fire
• Structure:
  • Turadium carapace
    • Bronzium plated
  • Taung War Oak grips
• Optical Hardware:
  • Targeting scope
    • w\LIDAR laser targeting laser
    • Solarium Glasteel optical lens
• Software & Electronics:
  • "Ironmaze" digital threat prevention suite
  • Advanced Smartgunner chip
    • w\Integrated M.I. Fire Control System
    • w\Advanced Smart targeting array
• Internal parts:
  • Micro-Etheric Modulation component
  • Cryoban coolant system
    • Activated via lever
  • Improved Hair trigger
  • Diatium power cell energy source

STRENGTHS

• Shield piercing:
  • Due to the nature of the Lumineferous Aether, This weapon is able to easily bypass the vast majority of energy shield technologies. It would take a shield using Etheric frequencies to effectively block or dissipate.
• Etheric blast:
  • By changing the density of the Lumineferous Aether within or around an object, The weapon's bolts are able to implode a small target area on impact roughly comparable to the size of a blaster bolt. This makes it an incredibly dangerous weapon if put in skilled hands, and is able to even dent incredibly resilient metals such as Beskar. Within several more blows, Such a metal may find a small hole created in even the thicker plates. Bones will have a small hole eaten through them where it has been ground to dust by it's own newfound density, and flesh turned to little more than blood.
• Anti-lightsaber:
  • Due to the Lumineferous Aether's properties not being plasmatic nor truly kinetic, The weapon is able to bypass the infamous Lightsaber and other laser reflective technologies without being deflected nor dissipating, affectively passing right through until it comes into contact with a solid physical object.
  • Furthermore, the weapon's carapace has been made from sturdy Turadium, allowing it survive a few strikes before potentially breaking.
• Hairpin trigger:
  • While the hammer is held down, The firing mechanism greatly decreases it's pull weight and operates identically to a hairpin trigger mechanism, allowing the user to fire their weapon as quickly as they can apply pressure to the trigger, of which very little is required.
• Munitions:
  • Due to the Diatium power cell and the unique properties of the Lumineferous Aether frequency altering technologies, The weapon doesn't actually require Ammunition in the classical sense. Instead, it simply consumes stored power with each shot, and the cells must be replaced over time. It does however generate heat that is recycled into power, but can also damaged the weapon.
• Lightning Gun:
  • Based on the famous "Staccato lightning cannon", This particular weapon uses a variety of sensors within it's targeting computer to lock onto targets within it's line of sight. It then uses a set of four alternating focusing lens located at the end of the barrel to adjust the bolt's trajectory as leaves the barrel to accurately fire at the target's center of mass(or what is directly visible at the time) independent of the user's manual aim. The user can simply aim in the general direction of their foes, maintain line of sight, and repeatedly squeeze the trigger until all targets are dead.
  • Additionally, the weapon features four individual barrels within the primary barrel carapace itself. This is done to further decrease the risk of overheating the weapon by alternating between four separate chambers. The muzzle may begin to glow after extended use however.

WEAKNESSES

• Etheric Shielding:
  • While the Metal Lords have yet to encounter technology that uses Etheric frequencies within a field to create a "shield", They have certainly considered it's uses. Unfortunately, this weapon cannot bypass such technologies like it can the standard energy shields found throughout the galaxy, and would be harmlessly stopped as the bolt's frequencies would simply revert to their original state on contact.
• EMP\Ion:
  • This weapon does not feature any tangible defenses against Ionic damage or EMP technologies, easily being shut down or even damaged internally by such weaponry.
• Cooling:
  • While this weapon does not require traditional munitions, it does produce a lot of heat, which must be cooled through the weapon's internal Cryoban coolant system. This is done by flicking the lever connected to the trigger-guard, releasing a small amount of the coolant into the chamber itself. Unfortunately, This must be done after every 20 rounds fired in quick succession. The cooling period lasts about 5 - 6 seconds, and the trigger will actually lock in the forward position after every 20 rounds in order to prevent internal damage to the weapon.
• Internal Damage:
  • Should the weapon be dealt enough blows by the infamous Lightsaber or otherwise be broken enough to damage or expose the internals, there is a chance that the internal Cryoban cooling system could leak, releasing enough Cryoban to potentially spread or even explode within the weapon and freeze it solid, shattering important internal components which must then be replaced.
• Electrical Damage:
  • Significant electrical currents could potentially overcharge the weapon's power cell and other electrical components, frying circuits and wiring which are vital to it's operation. In such a case, the weapon would no longer fire until repaired.
• Cloaking:
  • The enhanced targeting array of this particular weapon are dependent on a variety of sensors. Technology that can hide from or otherwise disrupt these sensors can affectively block it's Auto-locking features, forcing to the user to target them manually.

DESCRIPTION
According to research done by the learned scholars of the enigmatic Navis Sacra, The luminiferous aether, much like the living energies of the force, is a mysterious substance that exists in all things across time and space. If it is in all things and in all places, much like matter itself, one would expect it's mysterious to be as little understood as the void of space itself.

But with the discoveries of the Navis Sacra, The key to controlling the very Aether itself was found, and it's potential unlocked.


During a daring raid by the Black Hand organization, Several of the Navis Sacra's Etheric Modulation components were captured and reverse engineered by the equally zealous Mandalorians who had come only to liberate their own Holy Metals. But in the capture of this technology, The Galaxy would be opened to some of the most fearsome weapons ever created.

No less than three Mandalorian Artisans put their talents and collective minds into a singular goal; To create a weapon using the Liminiferous Aether itself. For their efforts, These three Mandalorians would one day be known as The "Metal Lords of Mos Motesta".


The concept of a Etheric blaster was first brought up by the Mandalorian Jensaaari, Corbin Vasher, A skilled artisan of Dark-side and Light-side force arts and the mind of a true Mandalorian smith. Leenic Ellsil, A masterful Shipwright and fellow force wielding Mando'ad, Was the first to consider turning the Aether against the very starships that relied on it. For all his Rust, Ellsil's sharp mind earned him a place among the Metal Lords long before their official founding.

But it was the Ex-Alor of House Vizsla who pioneered the technological breakthrough needed to downscale these gruesome weapons. Aloy Vizsla would develop the plans necessary to turn them into a man-portable weapon, decreasing in size but maintaining incredible power throughout iteration. However, The lengthily process would see her robbed of the achievement as the weapon's first manufacturer by an unexpected ally.

It was the mysterious but masterfully skilled Gun-nut, known only as Jackal, who would be the first to truly build one of these great weapons for the Metal Lord's daughter, Tayl Vizsla.

After her primary hand-cannon was broken during a skirmish with Tusken Raiders, Tayl Vizsla reluctantly recruited the expertise of Jackal to create a powerful replacement suited to her very specific needs. She needed a weapon well suited to the ruthless Gunslinging tactics and techniques often employed in the underworld of galactic society, but also a unique edge against her family's ever growing list of enemies.



She also needed one that wouldn't just explode, which is what she first expected to receive from the eccentric bounty hunter. Still, she collected the necessary parts and schematics all the same. To everyone's surprise but Jackal's, The Sangir stranger was able to take Aloy Vizsla's designs and construct the first Etheric-wave blaster the Galaxy had ever known.

The first of these weapons, known simply as "The Golden Gun", was as renowned for it's simplistic beauty as it's deadly bite.

The weapon operates by manipulating Etheric Frequencies in order to compact physical objects within a tiny radius. The Lumineferous Aether then alters the density of any material it comes into contact with, Densifying atoms within a small blaster bolt-sized area until it "implodes" on itself, affectively crushing material with it's own weight and shrinking it down to the particle level. It is even capable of denting beskar, and even imploding small holes into the metal after a few direct hits. Weaker metals would be fractured into very small shards within a small area, bone might become ground to dust and flesh reduced to mere blood.

These characteristics seem to support the logic of the original design, in that, If the Lumineferous Aether is indeed comparable with the sea itself, than altering the pressure of an Etheric wave would simply crush and then implode a target like a submarine gone too far into the deep.

This produces a sickening Snap of Sea-green light in a small beam or bolt that it not exactly "energy" nor "plasma" by galactic standards, nor is it truly kinetic in the ballistic sense.

become too compact to densify any further. At this point however, the material within this tiny zone would be little more than particles and offer no tangible protection whatsoever.

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