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Not much room left in your luggage or backpack? We've got just the box of death for you!
Intent: Fold Up Blaster Carbine, Reliable, Easy to drop safely into the field, and Cheap to Mass Produce.
Development Thread: N/A
Manufacturer: Fire For Effect
Model: OS-PBC-770 Portable Blaster Carbine.
Affiliation: Fire For Effect Closed Market, Special Orders Only.
Production: Mass Produced
Material: Trimantium
Classification: Fold Up Blaster Carbine
Size: Handheld
Length: 600mm Extended, 200mm by 200mm by 50mm (thick) Folded
Weight: 3.5 Kg
Ammunition Type: Power Cell in Clip
Ammunition Capacity: 250 Shots
Effective Range: Maximum 200 Meters, Optimum 100 Meters.
Rate of Fire: Five Round Burst Fire, Semi Automatic or Full Auto
Special Features:
Can be made very compact to be carried in kits, or dropped in crates. Sturdy when folded, and so able to be dropped quickly in the field via containers on mass, in support of units in the field, or into population centers to arm militia units such as the sithwatch. x20, x15, x10 and x5 infrared scope optional as a mounting. Able to be stored relatively hassle free underground in crates for armed resistance cells. Excellent rate of fire.
Description:
For their first bulk order unique to the One Sith, FFE went for something reliable and dependable, wanting to make a good first impression. These contracts are worth billions to them in the long run, the one sith military machine being as big as it is. So they picked a standard blaster carbine, designed to be able to relieve entrenched units with high velocity crate drops, also to fill a niche role that not many if any weapons do. FFE then accelerated the weapon's rate of fire to give it a fighting chance against modern armor or shields.
Another fine secondary or even tertiary weapon for those long missions, the PBC folds up into a pistol sized square box shape to be placed in your backpack. When folded it is very tough to damage by accident, allowing for many of these weapons to be compactly dropped via crates to relieve troops in the field, or stored underground in caches to mount a resistance to any occupying forces. Sitting behind an average blaster rifle's range of 300 meters, it carries half the ammo of other modern carbines but has double the standard 100 meter effective range.
Blasters as a rule are able to be stopped by a variety of common armors these days, and indeed shield types. They rely on overwhelming the target with a fast rate of fire to try and do some damage by breaching the armor, or clever tech. The PBC-770 does the former, fires very fast. As a modernized carbine from an established weapons producer, its rate of fire has been tweaked upward to be on par with modern slug throwers, cutting through its cell in 50 seconds on full auto easy enough, making its sustained effective rate of fire roughly 5 bolts a second. This makes the PBC vulnerable to overheating if it is continually used or reloaded too many times. Thankfully they are a throw away weapon being easily stored as they are, and individuals can quite happily pack a few with them for their bargain price.
Strengths:
+ Compact and easily carried as a secondary or even tertiary weapon.
+ Sturdy when folded, makes for dropping them in a hurry, or even at height possible, especially when securely set in a crate.
+ Exceptional rate of fire, on par with slug throwers, to try and breach modern armor or shields.
+ Good Range for a Carbine.
+ Cheap, Cheap, Cheap.
+ Scope good to x20 magnification, and infrared for night use.
Weakness:
- Half Ammo for a Modern Carbine.
- Standard Blaster Damage per shot, individual bolts stopped easily by many modern armors or shields.
- Two Clips and you'll be overheating without a few minutes cooldown.
- No single fire mode reduces accuracy, offering a minimum of a five round burst due to the fire rate.
- No special tech such as a grenade launcher, scanning device, or resistances to a force user, just an infrared scope.
- Vulnerable to being blocked by a saber or reflective weapon, but due to the sheer number of bolts fired per second, it might present a hazard.
Existing Chaos Techs:
x-31-Blaster Carbine
Scout Carbine
Rifle Example
Relevant Threads
OS Contracts
Rate of Fire of a Modern RL Weapon
