War Marshal Helix
Technological Terror
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIAL FEATURES
Purely a weapon of harassment and area denial, the L66 is incredibly small, light, and inexpensive to make. Around 2.5 centimeters in diameter, an untrained eye could mistake the flat gray disks as coins or loose machine parts.
Given its miniscule profile, troops can carry a great many of these explosives without significantly weighing themselves down. The mine is primed by pressingly firmly down on both sides of the disc, between one's fingers, prompting a loud click upon successful activation. After a brief, ten-second grace period, the charge is armed.
The mine can either be placed by hand, fired with a launcher, or tossed, but in either case it will adhere to any surface it touches during the pre-arming stage, activating its chameleonic metal surface to blend in. There it waits indefinitely, until it senses nearby movement.
When triggered, the mine detonates a tiny fragmentation charge, shattering its metal casing along thousands of microscopic fault lines. The result is a 2-meter wide blizzard of X18-impregnated microshrapnel, which can cause a chain reaction with other nearby L66 mines.
Given its size, the L66 has both a very limited damaging radius and fairly poor direct killing power on its own. A hapless enemy soldier is unlikely to be slain even by a very close-by detonation, but the shrapnel can occasionally nonetheless blind, deafen, or shred soft tissue in general, leaving potentially gruesome flesh wounds. These weapons are excellent at slowing enemy advances both indoors and outdoors, threatening painful and lingering injury unless they are avoided or cleared. In larger clusters, they can potentially be fatal, and the toxic effects of their shrapnel can often gradually sap the strength of passing armies.
In more open battlefields, it is not unknown for these weapons to be dropped from aircraft, blanketing an area in the thousands and rendering large swathes of land uninhabitable. Only tedious, expensive minesweeping operations can remove these tiny terrors, and most often these can still overlook a few.
- Intent: To create a small, cheap land mine for Helix Solutions
- Image Source: N/A
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
- Manufacturer: Helix Solutions
- Affiliation: Helix Solutions
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: L66 Firefly
- Modularity: No
- Production: Mass-Produced
- Material: Shiftsteel, X18
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
- Classification: Shrapnel Charge
- Size: Tiny
- Weight: Very Light
- Explosive Type: X18 shrapnel
- Delivery Method: Thrown/Launched/Placed
- Effective Range: Average
- Area Of Effect: Point-Blank
- Damage Output: Low
SPECIAL FEATURES
- Self-Camouflaging
- Highly Portable
- Radiotoxic
- Pint-Sized: The L66 is extremely small and lightweight, able to be carried in large numbers.
- Chameleon: The Firefly mine is capable of self-camouflaging, making it more difficult to spot.
- Radiotoxic: The Firefly discharges toxic shrapnel upon detonation.
- Just A Flesh Wound: Individual mines lack much in the way of immediate killing power.
- Direct Impact: The mines possess a very small effective radius, and are unlikely to wound past 2 meters or so.
Purely a weapon of harassment and area denial, the L66 is incredibly small, light, and inexpensive to make. Around 2.5 centimeters in diameter, an untrained eye could mistake the flat gray disks as coins or loose machine parts.
Given its miniscule profile, troops can carry a great many of these explosives without significantly weighing themselves down. The mine is primed by pressingly firmly down on both sides of the disc, between one's fingers, prompting a loud click upon successful activation. After a brief, ten-second grace period, the charge is armed.
The mine can either be placed by hand, fired with a launcher, or tossed, but in either case it will adhere to any surface it touches during the pre-arming stage, activating its chameleonic metal surface to blend in. There it waits indefinitely, until it senses nearby movement.
When triggered, the mine detonates a tiny fragmentation charge, shattering its metal casing along thousands of microscopic fault lines. The result is a 2-meter wide blizzard of X18-impregnated microshrapnel, which can cause a chain reaction with other nearby L66 mines.
Given its size, the L66 has both a very limited damaging radius and fairly poor direct killing power on its own. A hapless enemy soldier is unlikely to be slain even by a very close-by detonation, but the shrapnel can occasionally nonetheless blind, deafen, or shred soft tissue in general, leaving potentially gruesome flesh wounds. These weapons are excellent at slowing enemy advances both indoors and outdoors, threatening painful and lingering injury unless they are avoided or cleared. In larger clusters, they can potentially be fatal, and the toxic effects of their shrapnel can often gradually sap the strength of passing armies.
In more open battlefields, it is not unknown for these weapons to be dropped from aircraft, blanketing an area in the thousands and rendering large swathes of land uninhabitable. Only tedious, expensive minesweeping operations can remove these tiny terrors, and most often these can still overlook a few.
Out Of Character Info
Intent:
To create a small, cheap anti-infantry mine for Helix Solutions
Technical Information
Affiliation:
Helix Solutions
Modular:
No
Material:
Shiftsteel, X18
