Approved Tech I.M.D. Repeating Particle Rifle

[Darth Banshee]

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

• Intent: To shoot particle bolts at people
• Image Source: Here
• Canon Link: Here
• Restricted Missions: None
• Primary Source: None

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

• Manufacturer: Independat Military Developers
• Model: I.M.D. Repeating Particle Rifle
• Affiliation: Closed-Market
• Modularity: No
• Production: Minor
• Material: Durasteel, particle rifle components

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

• Classification: particle gun
• Size: Handheld
• Length: 1 meter
• Weight: 6kg
• Ammunition Type: Particle bolts, tibian gas canisters
• Ammunition Capacity: 30 Tibian gas Canisters and Power cell
• Effective Range: 1000m
• Rate of Fire: Single action, semi-automatic
• SPECIAL FEATURES
• Targeting scope

Strengths:

• Explodes on impact
• Good range
• Good against Lightsabers

Weaknesses:

• low ammo
• prone to emp and ion

DESCRIPTION
The weapon use standard Particle gun technology, to fire particle bolts at an enemy. The bolts works once it makes impact, it explodes as it hits enemy, if they wearing armour, if not the bolt will just go stright through and impact on the ground, if it hit's at all. As while accurate, it has been known to is it targets, from time to time. As it required railgun tech to work the, the weapon could be damaged by emp or ion, as it damage circuits that make it work. The weapon was also very good against lightsabers, as if it was to be blocked, then it would explode on impact with it. this in turn would make it shake violently, and possibly even damage the wrist of the force user. Due to range it also came with an in built scope, though it low ammo capacity meant it was no good for an itchy trigger finger.

 

[Netherworld]

Hello, I'll be the factory judge reviewing your submission. If you have questions, please feel free to respond to this thread once we are underway.

 

[Netherworld]

[member="Darth Banshee"]

You're using the wookieepedia canon Plasma rifle as the concept for this weapon. The problem here is that they've got nothing in common, which puts the capabilities of this submission into questionable light.

Type: Underwater blaster rifle

That's all the article says on the plasma rifle, which essentially means it was a blaster rifle capable of firing projectiles underwater.

The cartridge works once it makes impact, it activates the plasma which then burns into the enemy

it would explode with some force

• These two statements contradict each other. Does it burn through? Does it explode?
• Furthermore, nothing in the description actually explains how this would work. Plasma is a substance generated in extreme circumstances, most often by heat. What would sustain the plasma inside a cartridge? The heat required to maintain any substance in the form of plasma is well beyond what a railgun could endure, or, indeed, the person holding it. Or the cartridge encasing it, for that matter.

From how this reads, you're basically trying to put blaster bolts inside bullets, which... doesn't work for many reasons, chiefly because of what I listed above. Blasters shoot bolts of plasma formed from tibanna or some other gas kept compressed in a canister. This gas is energized at the time of pressing the trigger, then shot out the barrel and at the enemy. You can't carry energized plasma around in a magazine.

As it stands, this submission doesn't work. Please rework it from the ground up, or I will have to deny it on concept.

 

[Darth Banshee]

[member="Netherworld"]
Hi I am sorry I miss something in description but before my edit, I think better ask.
The plasma would be contained in small magnet inside the cartridge.
Once it makes impact that would dissipate, and that when it becomes live.
Hence the exploding when hitting a lightsaber

rational for that was this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_confinement_fusion

 

[Netherworld]

[member="Darth Banshee"]

There's several problems with that.

1. Cartridges are excessively small. Each of these cartridges would require not only 'a' magnet, but a whole magnetic device capable of sustaining the plasma for effectively indefinite periods of time. Cramming that much tech into something so small presents problems in and of itself.
2. Each individual cartridge / magnetic confinement device would require a power source of considerable power. Each cartridge.
3. The magnetic nature of the railgun would most definitely interfere with the magnetic field sustaining the plasma inside a cartridge. The moment you tried to fire, several things could happen. Either the plasma would burn through the gun OR the gun's rails would go boom OR maybe both of those.
4. This would be insanely expensive to produce.
5. No magnetic field is capable of suspending the plasma for more than a few seconds. That makes it impossible to carry around this sort of ammo, and/or load it into any kind of gun expecting to walk away with yourself or the gun intact.

On top of the above host of issues, this, at the end of the day, offers no considerable advantage over the canon particle bolt. Those explode on contact with obstacles (including lightsabers) and thus provide the effect you're looking for with this weapon.

The real-world concept is cool and definitely has potential inside SW, but not as a cartridge. Either rework this weapon into some form of particle rifle, or, again, I'll have to deny it on concept.

 

[Darth Banshee]

[member="Netherworld"] redone, as particle rifle.
I was trying to figure out how it the cannon one was mean to work, when came up with that.
Cheers for the idea.

 

[Netherworld]

[member="Darth Banshee"]

Please just go over the submission again and change all references of plasma bolts and such. You also can't propel energy with a railgun, as there's no magnetic particles inside tibanna. Please also remove mentions of solid projectiles.

Once you've shifted the sub over into a particle rifle as a whole, I can stamp this.

 

[Darth Banshee]

[member="Netherworld"] done, I hope

 

[Netherworld]

[member="Darth Banshee"]

You still have mentions of railgun tech in your Description sections. Please remove them.

Quick release magazines Physical shot fired

and the magazine had a button that just made the empty cartridge drop to the floor.

• These all reference a slugthrower type of weapon. Particle bolts use power cells and gas canisters for ammo. Please edit your submission accordingly.
  
  

  Ammunition Capacity: 30

• Here as well. Both the power cell and the gas canister capacity must be listed for an energy weapon.

The bolts works once it makes impact, it explodes as it hits enemy, if they wearing armour, if not the bolt will just go stright through and impact on the ground.

• This sentence is currently worded so it implies that particle bolts pass straight through non-armored enemies. Please remove it, as it has insta-hit implications.

 

[Darth Banshee]

[member="Netherworld"] edited
and put this line in
if not the bolt will just go stright through and impact on the ground, if it hit's at all. As while accurate, it has been known to is it targets, from time to time.

I agree nothing is an auto hit, ever

 

[Netherworld]

Awesome. Pending Admin Approval. Thanks! [member="Cira"]

 

[Jamie Pyne]

Approved.