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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Zohlees Vyshraal passed much of his love for travel and adventure onto his son through his teachings and lessons, one of the few items that came to represent this is the homespun slugthrower he gifted to Ravraa near his own retirement. Zohlees had always preferred slugthrowers to blaster rifles, he found them to be more reliable and require more skill than the traditional hot shot would think. Throughout his career, if you could call planet hopping, smuggling, and being a no good dirty spacer a career, he always made note to have some form of slugthrower on him. These would range from pistols, to carbines, to rifles. Zohlees, oddly, never kept much care for these tools, and when they would eventually give on him, he would salvage what he could and store them in a workshop aboard his ship. These bits and bobs were the founding pieces that would go into making the Helravn Rifle.
Zohlees had a peculiarity, however, and that came with large creatures of the Galaxy. While most may be enamoured with the pure strength and wild untapped nature of these beasts, while one may look on a rancor with fear, they could also look on them with an understanding that they were one of the natural creations of the universe, this couldn't be true for Zohlees. He viewed himself as some form of honorable warrior, some form of glory hound, and when he was first exposed to a wild rancor while making deals with a Felucian chief, he made it his job to prove that the sentient species would always be the top of the food chain. Thus, when he went to work on the Helravn, he was certain to create a weapon that could down even these monsters of legends. What came of this was a rifle specialized so in caliber that it was nearly impossible to use on a daily basis with the resources that a spacer had available to him, regardless, the weapon was still constructed. The Togruta won many trophies with the tool, even once snapping through the engine of an escaping pirate's vessel with the tool. In short, it was the explorer's "boomstick", something that he could whip out to use when the solution to his situation was simply "more gun."
The tool, at the end of the day, was nothing more than a big game rifle overgloated into something more. Zohlees had traveled with the weapon for many years, allowing Ravraa to tinker with it when they had some spare time. Slowly teaching his son the odds and ends of the weapon, how the firing pin worked, the different parts under the receiver, the faults of the jam enhancer, and in general, simply how to take apart and reassemble the weapon. The proper oils and buffs to use on the wood, and how to care for the metals. All in all, Ravraa was taught how to worship the weapon.
Eventually, age would catch to Zohlees, along with growing interests at home, and soon, the wayward explorer was forced to settle down and begin to focus on a single place for some time. Ravraa, however, still held his father's adventurous spirit. When the time came, and the son went to leave into the wild beyond, he was offered a parting gift from his father, his beloved rifle.
Ravraa used the tool for many years, hanging it in his arms as a deterent to any that would oppose him. However, once the Togruta found himself in service to the NIO, he was forced to sit the slugthrower down in favor of a more traditional blaster. Now, with his renown and rank marching steadily onwards, he once again has been able to reunite with his dad's first.
- Intent: To create a unique slugthrower for Ravraa and to flesh out his backstory further.
- Image Source: Fallout Wiki: Service Rifle
- Canon Link: Slugthrower
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source/s: Slugthrower Rifle - Slugthrower Carbine
- Manufacturer: Ravraa's father, Zohlees Vyshraal.
- Affiliation: Ravraa Vyshraal
- Model: Helravn Mark Zero, slapped together based off of scavenged designs over the years.
- Modularity: No
- Production: Unique
- Material: Durasteel and Kashyyyk-wood
- Classification: Slugthrower Rifle
- Size: Average
- Weight: Average
- Ammunition Type: Extra heavy Slugs, roughly equivalent to the .600 Overkill. [wiki link] [american hunting rifles link]
- Ammunition Capacity: Small | 15 round magazine
- Effective Range: Long
- Rate of Fire: Low (Semi-auto)
- Stopping Power: Extreme
- Recoil: High
- Purposefully Underpowered
- The Hammer. Most slugthrowers would simply plink off of plasteel or betaplast armor, as most modern designs can take much more variable damage than simply blaster shots, however, there is a limit. Due to the nature of the weapon being intended to take down thick skinned and scaled game, if a shot makes it's mark on a standard infantryman, odds are the round will crack through the plating and get to the more sensitive bits underneath.
- Reliable. Most slugthrowers can stand punishment. Mud, snow, rain, being submerged underwater, being slammed and butted into corners, rattling in the back of a truck. As long as the user makes sure to strip and clean the rifle occasionally, it will reliably cycle rounds when a magazine is slammed home.
- Rancor Killer. Read on the tin, larger caliber size allows the weapon to challenge larger creatures.
- BSG - Big Scary Gun. This gun fires loud, it fires hard, it's a morale dampener all on it's own. While someone firing a blaster at your position may make you think twice before peaking out, when you hear the Gods bring down thunder just around the corner, you might think three times.
- Irregular design. Due to the history of the slugthrower, finding the specific parts that were used to Frankenstein it together is rare and nearly impossible. Many times, should a spring break or a bolt crack, the part will have to be custom machined to be replaced.
- Held together with duct tape. The weapon, while reliably crafted, has issues with it's caliber/stability ratio. The weapon, if fired like a mad man, will simply fall apart in the user's hands. While the semi-auto function goes as fast as one could theoretically pull the trigger, without a delay for the gun to settle, things will break.
- Whoah, easy girl. The kick of this rifle punishes the solider using it, leaving bruises easily to an unpadded shoulder. While the pattern of recoil is quite perdictable, up. The amount of up that the rifle actually kicks could floor a first time user. Normally, it will be best to fire this rifle while stationary, prone, or brace on cover. On the move firing is possible, but will hinder accuracy.
Zohlees Vyshraal passed much of his love for travel and adventure onto his son through his teachings and lessons, one of the few items that came to represent this is the homespun slugthrower he gifted to Ravraa near his own retirement. Zohlees had always preferred slugthrowers to blaster rifles, he found them to be more reliable and require more skill than the traditional hot shot would think. Throughout his career, if you could call planet hopping, smuggling, and being a no good dirty spacer a career, he always made note to have some form of slugthrower on him. These would range from pistols, to carbines, to rifles. Zohlees, oddly, never kept much care for these tools, and when they would eventually give on him, he would salvage what he could and store them in a workshop aboard his ship. These bits and bobs were the founding pieces that would go into making the Helravn Rifle.
Zohlees had a peculiarity, however, and that came with large creatures of the Galaxy. While most may be enamoured with the pure strength and wild untapped nature of these beasts, while one may look on a rancor with fear, they could also look on them with an understanding that they were one of the natural creations of the universe, this couldn't be true for Zohlees. He viewed himself as some form of honorable warrior, some form of glory hound, and when he was first exposed to a wild rancor while making deals with a Felucian chief, he made it his job to prove that the sentient species would always be the top of the food chain. Thus, when he went to work on the Helravn, he was certain to create a weapon that could down even these monsters of legends. What came of this was a rifle specialized so in caliber that it was nearly impossible to use on a daily basis with the resources that a spacer had available to him, regardless, the weapon was still constructed. The Togruta won many trophies with the tool, even once snapping through the engine of an escaping pirate's vessel with the tool. In short, it was the explorer's "boomstick", something that he could whip out to use when the solution to his situation was simply "more gun."
The tool, at the end of the day, was nothing more than a big game rifle overgloated into something more. Zohlees had traveled with the weapon for many years, allowing Ravraa to tinker with it when they had some spare time. Slowly teaching his son the odds and ends of the weapon, how the firing pin worked, the different parts under the receiver, the faults of the jam enhancer, and in general, simply how to take apart and reassemble the weapon. The proper oils and buffs to use on the wood, and how to care for the metals. All in all, Ravraa was taught how to worship the weapon.
Eventually, age would catch to Zohlees, along with growing interests at home, and soon, the wayward explorer was forced to settle down and begin to focus on a single place for some time. Ravraa, however, still held his father's adventurous spirit. When the time came, and the son went to leave into the wild beyond, he was offered a parting gift from his father, his beloved rifle.
Ravraa used the tool for many years, hanging it in his arms as a deterent to any that would oppose him. However, once the Togruta found himself in service to the NIO, he was forced to sit the slugthrower down in favor of a more traditional blaster. Now, with his renown and rank marching steadily onwards, he once again has been able to reunite with his dad's first.
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