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- Intent: To provide a long blaster-style rifle in the Lucerne Personal Defense line-up
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- Manufacturer: Lucerne Personal Defense
- Affiliation: Directorate, Silver Jedi, Closed-Market
- Model: LPD-36 Hammerfire Heavy Blaster Rifle
- Modularity: Rail attachments, scope, other typical blaster modifications
Production: Mass-Produced
- Material: Hadrium barrel and internals, Phrik-Condensed matter composite receiver and barrel shroud, typical blaster rifle components, Permex furniture, Magnatomic Grip Panels
- Classification: Blaster Rifle
- Size: Large
- Weight: Heavy
- Ammunition Type: power pack, gas canister
- Ammunition Capacity: 80 (power cell), 300 (blaster gas)
Reload Speed: Slow
Effective Range: Long Range
Rate of Fire: Average
- Stopping Power: High
Recoil: High
Stun Setting: Like most blasters, the Hammerfire does have a stun setting.
Picatinny Rail: The Hammerfire does have a Picatinny rail on its upper and lower receivers, which allows it to use a variety of over the counter weapon's attachments such as aftermarket sights, scopes, lasers, secondary weapons, etc.
- Long Range: The Hammerfire has a longer range than many of its blaster rifle counterparts, and effectively fills the classic battle rifle role in a manner similar to the A280 or GLX Firelance.
- Heavy Hitter: The Hammerfire packs a heavy punch with good penetration, making it exceptionally useful against armored soldiers or targets taking cover behind various barriers.
- Durable: The Hammerfire is built to be extremely sturdy, using a phrik-condensed-matter composite frame and barrel shroud along with Hadrium internals (for thermal control) and shock-resistant Permex furniture. A Hammerfire can be subjected to a wide variety of abuses in a myriad of environments and still function reliably.
- High Recoil: The Hammerfire packs a punch, and with that punch comes a corresponding recoil. While not unmanageable with some practice, this recoil effectively reduces its practical rate of fire to below that of an average blaster rifle.
- Bulky: The Hammerfire is a fairly large and bulky weapon, making it more tiring to carry and slower to track against close-range targets than many blaster rifles, especially compact weapons like the classic E11.
- Reduce Ammunition Capacity: The Hammerfire needs more reloads than the average assault-style blaster rifle because it uses up more gas and power per shot in order to obtain its high power.
The Hammerfire is Lucerne Personal Defense's version of a 'long blaster', known for their long range and high power. Originally conceived as yet another attempt to recreate the StarAnvil, the Hammerfire project quickly turned from simple duplication to adapting existing components to try and mimic its performance. To that end, the designers enlarged the XCiter to handle more blaster gas per shot and added a long series of precisely formed galven coils to improve bolt cohesion. This leads to improved damage per bolt and long range respectively. In order to match the StarAnvil's legendary durability, the design team veered far away from the original Star Anvil's design and used material advances such as synthetic Phrik and condensed-matter composite to improve basic receiver durability. Permex furniture added another layer of environmental and shock resistance. Internally, the Hammerfire uses Hadrium castings which are then precisely machined in order to better regulate thermal changes, making it reliable in a variety of extreme climates. Unfortunately, these changes also make the Hammerfire bulkier and kick heavier than the average blaster rifle.
These tradeoffs make Hammerfires exceptionally valuable when fighting in wide and open terrain, particularly on wild and untamed worlds. It has consequently become popular with wilderness fighters and expeditionary forces, many of whom like to style themselves as accomplished marksmen. Because of that, LPD sells the rifle with a variety of off the shelf scopes to its customers. With some practice, many users can hit targets at long ranges. More accomplished shooters or those with deeper pockets often upgrade the rifle's scope. Unsurprisingly, large numbers of Hammerfires have been sold to Silver Jedi and Directorate affiliated forces, but it has also seen moderate and steady sales to planetary security services and big-game hunters.
