OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIAL FEATURES
STRENGTHS
WEAKNESSES
DESCRIPTION
Banned in many jurisdictions, a ballistic knife has a short, powerful spring in its handle. The spring launches the blade and tubular tang out as a projectile. In typical Mandalorian fashion, the Mandalorians looked at the ballistic knife and asked two questions:
A springknife is a beskar ballistic knife compatible with a wide variety of armor attachment points. Generally, the user fits the springknife to a forearm bracer, yielding the following combat options:
- Intent: A forearm weapon that's not flamethrowers and wrist rockets.
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PRODUCTION INFORMATION
- Manufacturer: Some traditional Mandalorian armorers
- Affiliation: Can be used by Mandalorians without asking
- Model: Springknife
- Modularity: Is a module. Compatible with a wide variety of Mandalorian armor mountings, primarily on the forearm.
- Production: Limited
- Material: Beskar
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
- Classification: Armor-mounted ballistic knife
- Size: Average for a knife
- Weight: Heavy for a knife
- Ammunition Type: Blade
- Ammunition Capacity: 1
- Reload Speed: Very Slow (requires manually placing a new blade in the handle/launcher, partially against the force of the spring)
- Effective Range: Personal
- Rate of Fire: Very Low
- Stopping Power: Very High
- Recoil: High
SPECIAL FEATURES
- Ultrasonic vibroblade generator
- High-powered spring
STRENGTHS
- Can be used as a melee weapon, either attached to the gauntlet/bracer or removed
- Essentially silent
- Can pierce many kinds of personal armor
- Highly resilient, even to lightsabers
WEAKNESSES
- Ultra-low ammunition capacity (1)
- Very short accurate range (~5m); tends to tumble beyond that point
DESCRIPTION
Banned in many jurisdictions, a ballistic knife has a short, powerful spring in its handle. The spring launches the blade and tubular tang out as a projectile. In typical Mandalorian fashion, the Mandalorians looked at the ballistic knife and asked two questions:
- Can I bolt it to my armor?
- Can I make it out of beskar?
A springknife is a beskar ballistic knife compatible with a wide variety of armor attachment points. Generally, the user fits the springknife to a forearm bracer, yielding the following combat options:
- Fight with the blade extended and attached to the bracer
- Fight with the blade retracted, and extend it at a critical moment, not unlike the Jedi Trakata technique
- Launch the blade as a single-use projectile
- Remove the entire springknife from the bracer and use it as a normal ballistic knife
- Use an already-launched blade/tang as a normal knife
