Valik
Professor of Alchemy
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Intent: To create a new anti-droid weapon
Development Thread: If Necessary
Manufacturer: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Givin_Cartel
Model: GC-Bolter
Affiliation: Paying Customers, Capitalism
Modularity: More powerful or specific restraining bolts could be used, though they would require separate submissions and possibly dev threads.
Production: Minor
Material: Durasteel standard, though outer components could be replaced by tougher metals if provided.
Classification: Slugthrower
Size: Handheld
Length: Variable(fitted to hand)
Weight: Variable, 1kg for the average humanoid.
Ammunition Type:Restraining Bolts.
Ammunition Capacity: 8 Bolts
Effective Range: Standard Blaster Range
Rate of Fire: Single Action
Special Features: None not described in the description. Any additional functionality or strength in ammunition would require a separate submission and/or dev thread(s).
Description: While EMP and Ion weaponry are the typical standby’s of anti-droid warfare the droid manufacturers of today are fighting for breakthroughs to reinforce their soldiers against this sort of weaponry, requiring that Ion and EMP weapons be increasingly more powerful weapons in order to keep up with the curve. The Givin Cartel found this answer to Ion and EMP shielding prohibitively expensive and close-minded, and sought to create a new solution.
The end result was the GC-Bolter. Rather than creating a stronger Ion Bolt or EMP Blast to overpower devices such as Ionization Buffers the Givin Cartel simply went around it, creating a more powerful restraining bolt, and using it as a projectile. While standard restraining bolts could only be used right next to a droid, and usually only at a particular spot, advanced Givin mathematics and programming knowledge allows the newer patented GC Restraining Bolt to restrain a droid from any location on the body, as well as be propelled from a range.
The GC Restraining Bolts are potent, though nowhere near as consistent as ion bolts of the past. While the Restraining Bolt may affects the droid when shot at any location it works best when fired at critical systems(for example a droid brain) or where the manufacturer would put a restraining bolt naturally. The complexity of the droid is also affects how long the droid is disabled for. Class One and Class Five droids can typically be restrained as long as a normal restraining bolt. The average Class Two and Class Three droid can typically restrained for around an hour due to most of them being built to be outfitted with restraining bolts, though more complex models may only be restrained for a matter of minutes. Class Four droids are more difficult to predict the course of, with some able to be restrained for half an hour to an hour and some only being able to restrained by around 30 seconds, depending on whether the droid was outfitted to accept a restraining bolt. Droids with increasingly powerful droid brains, such as but not limited to the J2 droid brain, can sometimes overcome the restraining bolt in around fifteen seconds.
The GC-Bolter not only fires the restraining bolt, but also transmits the command to fired restraining bolts. The GC-Bolter comes with a small list of simple commands such as “Cease fire”, “Shutdown”, or “Perform immediate reboot”. More complex commands can be programmed into the device with a small fee from GC or with sufficient slicing skills(Though doing so would void your devices warranty), but GC has found that the best commands are the simplest ones, and the commands that work best are ones that droids are used to fulfilling. Commands contrary to a droids natural programming are more difficult and unlikely to be forced on successfully, especially in the case of a droid who isn’t outfitted to have a restraining bolt naturally. For example it would be much easier to instill the command “Cease Fire” onto a Sith Battle Droid than “Attack Darth Junra”.
Givin Cartel studies also found one more variable that severely affected the performance of the GC Restraining Bolts, time between memory wipes. Due to the lack of self-programming a freshly-wiped droid possesses it is remarkably easy to control via the GC-Bolter, but as a droid went longer and longer without memory wipes it became less efficient. Droids that have achieved sentience are the most difficult to control, with average restrain time being recorded at 6.97 seconds. Overall the wrist-mounted GC-Bolter is a strong new product on the market designed to aid droid-fighters everywhere.
