Melee Weapon Review HHT-148 "Jawbone" Chainsaw

[Helix]

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

• Intent: To create a breaching tool/weapon for the Dzara
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• Canon Link: N/A
• Permissions: N/A
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PRODUCTION INFORMATION

• Manufacturer: Helix Privateers
• Affiliation: The Dzara
• Market Status: Closed-Market
• Model: HHT-148 Jawbone
• Modularity: Yes
• Production: Minor
• Material:
  
  • Overall Construction: Helsteel
  • Teeth: Kensium/Blightsteel/Helsteel
  • Electronic Components: Helglass

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

• Classification: Chainsaw/Vibrosaw
• Size: Large
• Weight: Very Heavy

SPECIAL FEATURES

• Self-Sharpening Blades
• Superheated Teeth
• Highly Damage-Resistant

STRENGTHS

• Can Opener: The Jawbone's frightening RPM and superheated metal teeth render it excellent for removing many common battlefield obstacles and barricades.
• Man Opener: The Jawbone makes for a highly dangerous (if somewhat sluggish) melee weapon, capable of tearing through most man-portable (or vehicular) armors like a hot knife through butter.

WEAKNESSES

• Cacophonous: The Jawbone is noisy while powered on, and even noisier while in use. Utilizing the saw in a quiet or discrete manner is effectively impossible.
• Mountainous: The Jawbone is heavy, bulky, and (unless wielded by a user of greatly-superhuman strength) impossible to swing quickly.

DESCRIPTION

As much a tool as a weapon, the Jawbone is designed to remove obstacles of both the living and inanimate varieties. In most configurations, this is a heavy, inelegant, smoke-belching beast utilized by the physically-strongest soldier in a squad. It measures a full meter (and change) in length.

Weight and noise issues aside, the Jawbone makes for an excellent breaching tool. Each of the saw's individual teeth are forged utilizing Kensium, Helsteel, and Blightsteel, then honed to a metal-peeling edge. The resultant cutting plane is supremely resistant to heat, impact, and wear, and will gradually regenerate any chipping or dulling of its structure.

Each Jawbone unit is powered via an integrated KBR power cell, providing an exceptionally long operational lifespan. This internal microreactor provides enough horsepower to generate truly staggering RPM for the weapon's chain (typically in the neighborhood of 20-30k rotations per minute).

Unusually, the Jawbone's normal operation sees part of its toothed chain run directly through the white-hot Otherplasma reaction that powers it. As a result, the saw's rotating teeth visibly glow with heat, adding an energy-based melting force alongside the weapon's normal physical slicing action.

Few substances can withstand the Jawbone's ravages for long. It is often used to saw through starship bulkheads, breach fortified bunkers, and destroy particularly-hardy foliage.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, particularly-deranged Dzara personnel have also taken to using the Jawbone as a weapon. While heavy and slow to swing, a solid strike from this machine is potentially capable of tearing an armored soldier neatly (or messily) in half. Few forms of man-portable armor will suffice against a tool designed to breach starship-grade barricades.

Accompanied by the earsplitting snarl-roar of its operation, there are few more potent psychological weapons in existence.

 

[Krass Wyms]

Helix

Hello, I will be handling this

• Can Opener: The Jawbone's frightening RPM and superheated metal teeth render it excellent for removing many common battlefield obstacles and barricades.
• Man Opener: The Jawbone makes for a highly dangerous (if somewhat sluggish) melee weapon, capable of tearing through most man-portable (or vehicular) armors like a hot knife through butter.

Most can be pretty ambiguous and what is common for one military will likely be different for another. SO if you could clarify with some material examples and how it functions with generally restricted more saber resistant materials with its superheated teeth.