The Hunger
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a heavy gun for ground troops, but also for optional attachment to ships and vehicles.
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- Canon Link: [X]
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
- Manufacturer: N&Z Umbrella Corporation| Nargath Holdings
- Affiliation: Closed-Market
- Model: NZ RF-600
- Modularity: The handle bars can be removed and exchanged for mounts when used as a ship or vehicle's weapon placement.
- Production: Minor
- Material:
- Durasteel Components
- Ersteel 145 barrel construction
- Duraplast shell components
- Heat resistant Carbonite coating
- Classification: Blaster
- Size: Very Large
- Weight: Very Heavy
- Ammunition Type: Power cell
- Ammunition Capacity: Large Can hold up to three powercells or be linked to an external powersource.
- Effective Range: Average
- Rate of Fire: High
- Stopping Power: Very High
- Recoil: Low
- Can also be used as weapon placement on vehicles and ships
- Has anti lock and anti-jamming components
- Won't overheat due to use of heat resistant materials
- Mow down the enemy: A combination of a high firing rate with a very high stopping power make this weapon a very impressive tool in the heat of battle, aided with a rather low recoil, it has an impressive accuracy for a weapon of it size and weight, granting the ability for one single man to stand up against a whole squad of enemies if need be.
- Long life: Due to the use of heat resistant materials, the barrels rarely, if ever overheat, allowing for the user of this weapon to simply squeeze the trigger and spray the enemy with blasterfire until either they themselves are dead or the large ammunition capacity runs completely dry.
- Sturdy weapon: Built with quality durasteel and ersteel components, along with smart mechanical systems such as anti-locking and anti-jamming, make this one heck of a reliable and sturdy tool to bring into battle, able to take on a few hist of blasterfire itself before any repairs would be necessary.
- Very cumbersome weapon: As it is a very heavy and large type of weapon, it isn't just something every man can wield properly, making it a rather cumbersome tool to be used by those either not having the physical capacity or the training to use weapons of this size and weight.
- Limited mobility: When wearing this weapon, the user's mobility is guaranteed to suffer, as running with this weapon already requires some top notch strength and endurance, performing any acrobatics such as leaping would be near impossible. Due to needing both hands to wield it, this should not come as a surprise.
The desire to have a decisively larger and more potent weapon for potential military clients lead to the engineers of Nargath Holdings delving deep into weapon's lore of old, finding the perfect candidate for an adaption on the desing in the form of the old Z-600 rotary blaster Cannon which had been used for more than fifty years in conflicts such as the clone wars and the galactic civil wars over eight centuries ago. Utilizing this design, the engineers decided on working with heat resistant materials to lower the chances of jamming, locking and overheating of the weapon significantly and thus allowing for a longer shelflife of the weapon.
As the design progressed, it had been noted that due to the heavy weight and size,it would perhaps be a bit cumbersome for the untrained people to use, but these operational flaws for people would not count towards vehicles and ships, thus making the optional use as a weapon placement a logical step.
Factoring in a low recoil alongside high fire ratio and impressive destructive power during the initial tests granted this weapon it's approval from the higher upt to be put into production, with the boardmembers of the N&Z umbrella corporation being fairly certain there would be ample room in the market for a weapon like this.
