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Character
OS-116 "Sith Killer" Ammunition
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a type of ammunition for select characters that is specially designed to take down Force Users/those wielding lightsabers.
- Image Source: Andre-Lang Huynh via www.artstation.com
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: Baradium, Cortosis
- Manufacturer: Obsidian Star Technologies
- Affiliation: Order of the Silver Jedi, Obsidian Star Technologies, Closed-Market
- Model: OS-116
- Modularity: No
- Production: Semi-Unique
- Material: Depleted Baradium Slug, Cortosis-weave Jacket, explosive powder
- Classification: Incendiary Ammunition
- Size: Average
- Weight: Heavy
- Explosive Type: Baradium micro-charge
- Delivery Method: Fired
- Effective Range: Average
- Area Of Effect: Personal
- Stopping Power: Extreme
- Explodes on impact causing a high amount of damage to all but the most heavy of armor types
- Cortosis jacket will short out any lightsaber that makes contact with it, making deflecting or blocking these projectiles with a lightsaber extremely difficult
- Depleted Baradium Slug: Upon impact with a surface, the Baradium slug explodes causing a powerful but highly localized explosion which can damage or destroy most common types of armor with ease. Basic durasteel armor provides little to no protection to this weapon and even beskar or alchemically altered armors can usually only take three to four shots with this before it starts to buckle
- Cortosis Wave Jacket: The Baradium slug is fully covered with a weave made from Cortosis. In situations where a lightsaber comes in contact with the bullet, such as in an attempt to deflect or destroy the bullet with a lightsaber, the lightsaber would short out and be rendered useless.
- Heavy: Because the slug of this bullet is made from super-dense Baradium, each bullet weighs approximately twice that of a normal bullet of its caliber. While individually this might not make much of a difference, when added together in a magazine, particularly on firearms with a larger magazine size, this can make the weapon heavier to carry and throw off the weapon's balance.
- Prohibitively expensive: Due to the expensive nature of acquiring both Baradium and Cortosis, along with the very difficult and intensive process needed to create the ammunition, each of these bullets is extremely expensive. Well over 2000 credits a piece. As a result, using them in any sustained action and carrying them in any significant quantity becomes so expensive that only the most wealthy of operators will even be able to consider purchasing them.
The "Sith-Killer" Incendiary bullet is Obsidian Star's first foray into projectile ammunition. It is made up of a depleted baradium slug and has a full cortosis-weave jacket around it. It can be made in a variety of calibers but is inordinately expensive to produce thus limiting its use to that of Semi-Unique. The baradium slug is designed to explode on contact, allowing the bullet to penetrate almost all kinds of armor. Even beskar and Sith alchemically enhanced armor will give away after a few shots, depending on thickness or the skill level of the Sith Alchemy used. The Cortosis-weave jacket gives the bullet the ability to short out any active lightsaber that comes into contact with it, making deflecting or destroying incoming fire from these bullets extremely problematic.
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