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Approved Tech LPD-23 Firespike Submachine Gun

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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

  • Intent: To provide a slugthrower submachine gun in the Lucerne Personal Defense line-up
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  • Canon Link: N/A
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PRODUCTION INFORMATION
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
  • Classification: Slugthrower submachine gun
  • Size: Small
  • Weight: Light
  • Ammunition Type: Slugs
  • Ammunition Capacity: 40 slugs per magazine

  • Reload Speed: Average
  • Effective Range: Personal
  • Rate of Fire: High
  • Stopping Power: Average
  • Recoil: Average
SPECIAL FEATURES


  • Slugthrower: The Firespike is an advanced primer ignition blowback operated firearm that uses conventional cartridges consisting of a projectile, propellant, and primer. This relatively simple design makes it exceptionally reliable in the field and unaffected by ion or EMP weapons.

  • Threaded Barrel: Since the action does not require the barrel to move, the Firespike's barrel is threaded and highly compatible with a wide variety of muzzle devices such as compensators, silencers, and flash hiders.

  • Modular Slugs: As with many other conventional slugthrowers, there is a wide variety of ammunitions available for it, ranging from simple hollow-point ammunition and armor-piercing bullets to exotic explosive tipped rounds and acid-filled bullets.

  • Variable Rate of Fire: Firespike has an ambidextrous selector level, which unusually does not have specific set fire rates, but allows users to adjust the rate of fire based on how high or low they set the selector lever at. The lower the selector level is, the lower the rate of fire. This allows users to easily select semi-automatic or low burst fire for precise and easily controlled attacks, or select a high rate of fire for inaccurate sprays of fire for dealing with multiple enemies or suppressing fire.
Strengths:
  • High Rate of Fire: While the Firespike's 12mm round is nothing to sneeze at, the Firespike's real strength is its fairly high rate of fire that can overwhelm enemies by its sheer volume of fire.
  • Modular: The Firespike, like most slugthrowers, is a relatively adaptable weapon. Not only can it accept different types of ammunition, but the threaded barrel similarly allows a variety of attachments such as silencers and compensators to be added as well. The stock is also adjustable for length of pull, allowing it to be easily adapted to different people's ergonomics or for ease of storage.
Weaknesses:
  • Short Range: Relying on a relatively slow-moving and large bullet makes the Firespike relatively short-ranged even compared to many other submachine guns, with an optimum range of forty five meters. Some shooters can compensate for the high drop by angling the gun upwards, but it's not very reliable nor accurate.
  • Simplistic Sights: The Firespike only comes with a fairly basic sight set-up that is only drift-adjustable with a punch and hammer, which is not the sort of operation that one wants to conduct on the battlefield. In addition, no provision has been made to allow the sights to be upgraded or augmented by a scope in order to reduce production costs for the weapon.
DESCRIPTION
The LPD-23 Firespike Submachine Gun is a close-quarters weapon designed to use the 12mm Stormburst round originally designed for the pistol of the same name. By using an existing cartridge, Lucerne Personal Defense hopes to make both guns more marketable to organizations as they would share a common ammunition supply despite fulfilling different roles. To that end, LPD focused on obtaining a controllable but high rate of fire with the Firespike, which was accomplished through using an API operating system along with an inline design to reduce perceived recoil by directing the recoil impulse more towards the center of the shooter. Aiding this design philosophy is the addition of an ambidextrous rate of fire selector that allows users to experiment with setting a rate of fire that is just right for them by using a rate reducer. This allows users to set the gun's rate of fire to the highest level that they are able to comfortably control.

The design of the 12mm Stormburst cartridge itself is specifically designed for ease of control, which aids this design philosophy because it has a more gentle and steady recoil impulse than many of its counterparts. This translated into a larger bullet moving at a slower, subsonic speed. This gives the weapon significant "knock-down" power at short ranges and a quick ballistic drop after typical close quarters engagement ranges. While this latter quality is disliked by older gunslingers, it also comes with the attribute of a larger bullet carrying more of a payload, which many users feel like compensates for the weapon's short range. The following are some of the more common loadings of 12mm Stormburst.

Full Metal Jacket: A simple solid slog of lead or other dense material covered in a thin jacket of copper. This is probably the most common and cheapest ammunition available for the Firespike. It is reasonably effective against most person-sized targets.

Hollow-Point: Another common variety, the hollow-point is designed to rapidly expand in diameter when it hits a target. While this makes it inefficient at penetrating through personal armor, it also ensures peak performance in unarmored targets with a very little chance of overpenetration, which makes it a common choice for police and marine units which are concerned about damaging bystanders or their surroundings.

Explosive-Tipped: This is basically a hollow-point bullet whose internal cavity filled with detonite. When the bullet collides with the target or object, the kinetic impact detonates the detonite. Because of the shape of the metallic portion of this bullet, it actually acts as a micro-shaped charge, with the detonite being focused forward into the target. This ammunition, like its Galactic Civil War counterpart, is well-suited for penetrating through many body and droid armors.

Stun Bullet: This round consists of lightly-constructed, sublethal plastic shell that contains bothan stun spores. Upon impact, the spores either enter the body or can be inhaled by the target. Depending on the target, the effect can range from mild nausea and vomiting to unconsciousness.

Acid-Filled: At a glance, this appears to be a typical full metal jacket cartridge. However, the jacket of this round actually acts as a reservoir for Trifaraleen gas. If the bullet penetrates into the target, the gas will be released into the target itself to rapidly eat at tissue. Against impact against armor and other hard objects, the gas will rapidly corrode a portion of the impacted target before dissipating away.

As with most submachine guns, the Firespike is bested in close-quarters combat, such as in urban areas or inside of starships. This niche makes it common as a police and marine weapon, where its lack of range is not an issue but its high rate of fire is useful when dealing with numerous enemies. Additionally, 12mm Stormburst's subsonic nature and the Firespike's ease of accepting silencers because of its threaded barrel makes it an easily silenced weapon, which has lead to its use for more covert operations by commandos and counter terrorist organizations. These same qualities have made it an attractive weapon to criminal elements, though none have been acquired in significant numbers by crime groups.
 
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