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Approved Ranged Weapon FAE/W-12 Assault Carbine Mk. II

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Manufacturer: First United Astral Engineering
Market Status: Closed Market
Production: Minor
Weight: Light
Size: Small
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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
  • Manufacturer: First United Astral Engineering
  • Affiliation:
  • Market Status: Closed-Market
  • Model: FAE/W-12 Assault Carbine Mk. II
  • Modularity: Yes
    • Can link to virtually any electronics, sensor suite, HUD, artificial intelligence, or targeting system.
    • Can be configured for mounting on vehicle, droid, or automated platforms.
    • Frame may be coated or electroplated with various materials.
    • Settings and Programming Alterations
    • Aesthetic Modifications
    • Various Barrel and Rail Interface Attachments
    • Systems may be stripped as needed or desired.
    • Detachable Silencer
    • Various Ammunition Types
  • Production: Minor
  • Material:
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
  • Classification: Slugthrower Rifle - Verpine Linear Motor
  • Size: Small
  • Weight: Light
  • Muzzle Velocity: 2.5 km/s
  • Ammunition Type: Slugs
    • Average Projectile Weight: ~62 gr
  • Ammunition Capacity: Average
    • 60 Slugs - Standard Magazine
    • 80 Slugs - Extended Magazine
  • Effective Range: Long Range - 1000 m
  • Rate of Fire: Selective Fire
    • Mechanical Rate of Fire
      • 800 RPM - Automatic
      • 1200-1800 RPM - Burst Fire
    • Firing Modes
      • Automatic
      • Burst Fire - 2 Shot Burst
  • Damage Output: High
    • Muzzle Energy: ~12.6 kJ
  • Recoil: Low
SPECIAL FEATURES
  • Data and Information Security
  • Combat Electronics
  • Control Systems
  • Ammunition Types
    • Factory Ammunition
      • Standard Penetrator
        • Standard penetrator ammunition is designed for general use, being effective against both armored and unarmored targets. The core is dense tunqstoid, which is encased in a conductive polymer-ultrachrome composite to prevent wear inside the barrel and to facilitate the penetration of energy shields. The projectile has a rough teardrop shape, for aerodynamic efficiency.
      • Armor Penetrator
        • Intended for general anti-armor use, armor penetrator ammuntion is designed to punch through body armor, light vehicle plating, and droid chassis. The projectile has an aerodynamic penetrator profile, featuring a sharply tapered nose to maximize sectional density and reduce air resistance while the boat-tail base improves stability in flight. The core is ultra-dense seigurium (for maximum density and hardness), which is encased in a conductive polymer-ultrachrome composite to prevent wear inside the barrel and to facilitate the penetration of energy shields.
      • CryoBan
        • Designed to release CryoBan on impact, CryoBan ammunition is designed to flash-freeze targets on impact. Regarding its construction, CryoBan slugs are encased in a conductive polymer-ultrachrome composite to prevent wear inside the barrel and to facilitate the penetration of energy shields. This casing is notably frangible, intended to shatter on impact in order to release the payload. The slug’s core is composed of three parts: the primary cryogenic agent—CryoBan, a suspended pocket of collapsium gas, and a high-strength magnetic containment shell. On impact, the shell fractures, at which point the collapsium destabilizes and implodes to create a localized vacuum. The sudden pressure drop causes the CryoBan to expand violently, potentially freezing targets in a ~1 meter radius instantly and violently.
      • Controlled Penetration
        • Controlled penetration ammunition is lethal and barrier-sensitive, designed to kill armored targets while minimizing the risk of overpenetration and collateral damage. In terms of their construction, controlled-penetration slugs are encased in a conductive polymer-ultrachrome composite to prevent wear inside the barrel and to facilitate the penetration of energy shields. This casing is notably frangible, intended to shatter on impact in order to prevent ricochets. The core is tunqstoid compressed powder into a sintered matrix. On impact, the slug shatters into pre-formed shards as the core powderizes into a lethal cone, ensuring that the maximum amount of energy is dumped into the target.
      • Ion Disruption
        • Ion disruption slugs are specialized electromagnetic ammunition designed for anti-droid, anti-electronic, and anti-energy shield applications. They deliver targeted ion bursts intended to fry circuits, overload systems, and cripple mechanized threats. In terms of their construction, ion disruption slugs are encased in a conductive polymer-ultrachrome composite to prevent wear inside the barrel and to facilitate the penetration of energy shields. This casing is notably frangible, intended to shatter on impact in order to release the ionized payload. The slug’s core is composed of two parts: ionized gas that unleashes a charged plasma, conductive nano-filaments which are designed to facilitate the penetration of the ionic discharge into circuitry, and ferromagnetic dust that enhances EM interference. On impact, the slug shatters, releasing ionized plasma and charged nano-filaments which function akin to a powerful electromagnetic pulse in a ~0.5 meter effective radius. The ferromagnetic dust is released as well, but it functions primarily to ensure that ionic effects linger, potentially causing extended systems disruption that may last after impact.
      • Explosive-Incendiary
        • Explosive-incendiary ammunition is designed primarily for anti-armor and area denial use cases, though it remains effective against conventional targets. The core is filled with solid iadrium, which is encased in a conductive polymer-ultrachrome composite to prevent wear inside the barrel and to facilitate the penetration of energy shields. The iadrium detonates on impact via a mass-reactive electric fuze, giving nigh-perfect reliability in exploding against both soft and hard targets. The blast has a radius of ~0.5 meters. However, the fire can spread beyond this, especially in the presence of flammable materials. Pertaining to its incendiary effects, the explosion and fire can reach temperatures in excess of two thousand five hundred degrees centigrade in a Type I atmosphere. The fire itself can burn for up to 30 seconds, though this can be longer if it spreads to flammable materials. Finally, the projectile has a roughly teardrop shape, for aerodynamic efficiency.
      • High Explosive
        • Pure explosive ammunition is designed primarily for anti-armor and area denial use cases, though it remains effective against conventional targets. The core is filled with solid baradium, which is encased in polymer-ultrachrome composite to prevent wear inside the barrel and to facilitate the penetration of energy shields. The baradium detonates on impact in a ~0.5 meter blast radius via a mass-reactive electric fuze, giving nigh-perfect reliability in exploding against both soft and hard targets. The projectile has a roughly teardrop shape, for aerodynamic efficiency.
    • Aftermarket Ammunition
  • Power and Discharge Systems
    • Verpine Linear Motor and Gravity Coils
      • Power Setting Modulation System
        • At lower power settings, the projectile is imparted with a lower muzzle velocity. Of particular note, a special subsonic setting is also included, which accelerates the projectile to ~340 m/s. At higher power settings, the projectile has a higher muzzle velocity. On full power (the standard setting), the muzzle velocity is roughly 2.5 km/s. However, it should be noted that using the weapon at lower power settings (including the subsonic setting) will quite noticeably decrease the muzzle energy and effective range.
    • Rylith Power Cell - 400 Shot Capacity
  • Utility and Safety Systems
STRENGTHS
  • Kinetic Train: The FAE/W-12 Mk. II has a verpine linear motor installed within the barrel that accelerates the slug to hypersonic speeds. This blistering velocity imparts the projectile with outsized kinetic potential, matching the muzzle energy of a light anti-materiel chemically propelled slugthrower round. Thus, when fired at full power, the slug has the potential to overmatch most kinds of infantry body armor and punch through light vehicle armor. The optional explosive and armor penetrator ammunition types offer further anti-armor utility, allowing for the engagement of ultra-resilient, heavy-armored targets. Naturally, the damage effects on unarmored targets have the potential to be devastating. Against unarmored humanoid targets, it can create a temporary cavity the size of a cantaloupe and a permanent wound channel several inches wide. Limb hits have the potential to result in traumatic amputation.
  • Surgical: While the FAE/W-12 Mk. II is not quite a true, dedicated sniper platform, the weapon is very accurate and precise within its effective firing range.
  • Silence is Violence: Owing to its integrated silencer, the FAE/W-12 Mk. II is virtually soundless at the point of the shooter.
  • Phase: The energy-reflective nature of the ultrachrome (used in the casing of all factory ammunition types) repels energy fields and gives the slugs a very high chance of passing through energy shields. This allows for potentially significant efficacy against targets that are protected by energy shields.
  • Agile Rifle: The FAE/W-12 Assault Carbine Mk. II is a small and light weapon, making it a good choice for close-quarters combat due to its agility. In addition, the weapon finds frequent use in the hands of individuals from smaller species, who may be less able to comfortably handle the recoil force or weight of a full-sized rifle.
  • Resilient: The FAE/W-12 Mk. II has integrated terentatek hide, providing resistance to the Force. Anti-EMP and Ion measures are present in the form of reinforced duraplast electronic hardening and a combat de-ionization, allowing the weapon to resist limited amounts of high-energy electromagnetic discharges or quickly return to function in the event that it is compromised. Finally, the weapon is quite rugged, able to function in muddy or messy environments with virtually no issue.
WEAKNESSES
  • Ammunition Weight: Although more efficient than conventional slugthrowers which require propellant in order to fire, the FAE/W-12 Mk. II needs both physical ammunition and power cells. Thus, compared to energy weapons of the same class, the weapon’s ammunition is less mass and space-efficient.
  • Double Blade: The high explosive and explosive-incendiary ammunition types can represent a risk to the user. A penetrating shot to the magazine could destabilize ammunition cores, potentially triggering sympathetic detonations which risk setting off all of the slugs at once.
  • Blast Back: High explosive, CryoBan, and explosive-incendiary ammunition types may pose a severe hazard to the wielder if they are used at particularly close range, especially if the shooter fires at a target while inside the blast radii of the respective ammunition types.
  • Storm Surge: As the FAE/W-12 Mk. II exclusively utilizes a verpine linear motor to fire, it is uniquely susceptible to EMP and Ion-based assaults. Unlike a typical slugthrower which utilizes chemical propellant, the weapon quite feasibly be wholly disabled should it be hit by a powerful ionizing discharge that overcomes its defenses.
DESCRIPTION
The FAE/W-12 Assault Carbine Mk. II is a lightweight, short-barrel verpine shatter assault rifle optimized for reliability, versatility, agility, and lethal performance in a compact platform.

Leveraging First United Astral Engineering’s proprietary expertise in verpine shatter and railgun weapon technologies, the Mk. II version of the FAE/W-12 is significantly more advanced than its predecessor. With the company having graduated from using chemical propellant in its slugthrower weapons, the Mk. FAE/W-12 Mk. II is nearly ten times as powerful as its predecessor in terms of muzzle energy owing to its verpine linear motor and gravity coils. Both of these systems work in concert to accelerate the projectile to hypervelocity speeds, giving it an outsized damage potential comparable to that of a light anti-materiel chemically propelled slugthrower round. The recoil produced by the weapon would be uncontrollable were it not for the inertial damper-enhanced autosteady gyro-gimbal, resulting in only modest recoil.

The FAE/W-12 Mk. II is also compatible with First United Astral Engineering’s natively developed factory ammunition, allowing the carbine to be used against a wide spectrum of targets.

In all, the FAE/W-12 Assault Carbine Mk. II is a stunning evolution of a foundational design. It leverages advanced propulsion technologies to deliver a weapon that is as convenient to wield as it is devastating to employ.
 

Out Of Character Info

Intent: Create an updated, next-generation version of the FAE/W-12 Assault Carbine.
Permissions: See Body

Technical Information

Affiliation: First United Astral Engineering, Exclusive Writers and Buyers
Model: FAE/W-12 Assault Carbine Mk. II
Modular: Yes
Effective Range: Long Range
Rate of Fire: Selective Fire
Material: See Body
Ammunition Type: Slugs
Ammunition Capacity: Average
Damage Output: High
Recoil: Low
Ranged Class: Assault Rifle
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