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Unreviewed Penumbra Neutralizer

Manufacturer: First United Astral Engineering
Market Status: Closed Market
Production: Unique
Weight: Heavy
Size: Large
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Mellifluous Magenta

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Mellifluous Magenta
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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
  • Classification: Plasma Rifle - Otherplasma
  • Bolt Color / Appearance: Faint, shimmering, and hazy streak of purple-black anti-light. Edges are refracted into a barely perceptible heat-haze flicker, making the bolt incredibly difficult to track with the naked eye and virtually invisible against dark backgrounds.
  • Muzzle Visual Signature: The weapon produces only a faint, brief flicker of purple-black anti-light and a wave of heat distortion at the muzzle when fired.
  • Sound Signature: Bolt is totally soundless in-flight, as its vacuum sheath prevents any atmospheric disturbance. At the point of the shooter, only a faint mechanical click of the firing mechanism and a low, brief hum from the magnetic acceleration coils can be heard, both of which can be quieted if the weapon is equipped with a silencer. Upon impact, the bolt typically has a sharp, thunderclap-like report as the vacuum sheath surrounding the bolt collapses.
  • Muzzle Velocity: 4 km/s
  • Size: Large
  • Weight: Heavy
  • Ammunition Type: Compressed Otherplasma Canister
  • Ammunition Capacity: Small - 20 Shots / Compressed Otherplasma Canister
  • Effective Range: Extreme
    • Exoatmospheric Range: ~30 km
      • Theoretically infinite due to zero drag, but in practice limited to set value due to target movement and accuracy limitations.
    • Standard Atmospheric Range: ~18 km
      • Range is limited by the endurance of the air resistance-nullifying vacuum envelope, which in typical atmospheric conditions lasts slightly longer than four seconds before dissipating.
  • Rate of Fire: Semi-Automatic
  • Damage Output: Extreme
    • Muzzle Energy: ~200 kJ
    • Thermal Energy Release: 8–10 Million °C
  • Recoil: Average
SPECIAL FEATURES
  • Data and Information Security
  • Combat Electronics
  • Control Systems
  • Power, Energizing, and Discharge Systems
    • FAE/G-02 “Glimmerweave” Q-Vacuum Entrainment Cell - Power System
    • Primary Excitation Chamber
      • Fusion chamber where raw Otherplasma is ignited and condensed. Draws power directly from the Glimmerweave.
    • Plasma Stabilization Field Generator
      • Set of emitters surrounding the excitation chamber that project a containment field around the bolt during the energizing process. The field maintains the bolt's semi-solid, condensed state throughout ignition and acceleration.
    • Magnetic Acceleration Coils
    • Muzzle Vacuum-Sheath Emitter Ring
      • Ring of precision emitters around the muzzle that creates a vacuum envelope around the semi-solid Otherplasma bolt at the moment of firing. This vacuum sheath is a localized gravitic shear that peels the atmosphere away from the bolt's surface, effectively nullifying air resistance and drag. In addition, since the bolt moves through a hard vacuum envelope that isolates it from the surrounding atmosphere, the bolt is totally silent.
      • The vacuum envelope around the semi-solid Otherplasma bolt self-sustains for ~5 seconds through velocity and physics, before dissipating as atmospheric pressure (in standard atmosphere) gradually erodes the vacuum gap from the edges inward.
    • Precision Firing Module
      • Control assembly that governs the entire firing sequence. On trigger pull or electronic activation, the firing module does the following:
        • Verifies that all systems are primed.
        • Signals the Glimmerweave for energy pulse delivery.
        • Sequences the excitation chamber ignition.
        • Triggers the stabilization field.
        • Fires the MAC coils in sequence.
        • Activates the emitter ring at muzzle exit.
  • Utility and Safety Systems
STRENGTHS
  • Witch Blade: The Penumbra Neutralizer’s robust construction provides exceptional resistance to battle damage, extreme temperatures, and structural stress. Agrinium foiling and shielding protects sensitive electronics against ion and EMP attacks, while the systems-integrated terentatek hide provides Force-resistance that shields critical systems from techno-sorcery, mechu-deru, and other Force-based interference. As a result, the weapon is incredibly robust and reliable, even under conditions of extreme stress.
  • Symbiotic Fire-by-Thought: The FAE/S-07 enables fire-by-thought actuation, reducing reaction time to the speed of neural transmission rather than mechanical trigger pull. When linked to compatible armor or HUD, the user can acquire targets, operate the weapon’s functions, and fire with zero perceptible delay. This allows for split-second responses against multiple threats, giving the user a decisive advantage in close-quarters duels.
  • Silent Execution: The vacuum sheath completely isolates the bolt from the atmosphere during flight, eliminating all sonic signature. As a result, targets receive no auditory warning of the shot. Only the faint mechanical click of the firing mechanism and a brief magnetic hum are audible at the point of the shooter, both of which can be suppressed. The bolt’s visual signature is also minimal, being both difficult to track and virtually invisible against dark backgrounds. The muzzle flash is equally subdued, allowing KV-027 to engage targets with minimal risk of revealing her position.
  • Triple Threat: The Penumbra Neutralizer delivers devastating firepower at extreme distances. Fired at hypervelocity speeds, the semi-solid lance of Otherplasma is surrounded by a vacuum sheath that eliminates drag for over four seconds. As a result, the bolt can reach out to nearly 18 km in atmosphere and over 30 km exoatmospherically. At impact, the bolt delivers kinetic energy comparable to a heavy slugthrower autocannon, alongside stellar core-temperature thermal energy. This is generally sufficient to defeat light vehicles, bunkers, and even beskar armor (and armor made of similarly exotic materials) in a single shot.
  • Dimensional Striker: The bolt inflicts a triple-threat damage profile upon impact. Shockwave-generating kinetic impact can deliver catastrophic hydrostatic shock and structural shattering. Thermal energy can vaporize the wound channel and carbonize surrounding material. Finally, radiological contamination from Otherplasma's exotic dimensional origin can produce deep tissue radiation burns, cellular damage, and wounds that refuse to heal normally. This combination ensures that even near-misses are potentially lethal.
  • Extreme Precision: The Penumbra Neutralizer maintains surgical accuracy out to its furthest range increment, consistently able to hit targets the size of a credit chip at distances exceeding 18 kilometers. This precision stems primarily from ultra-precise design tolerances and the vacuum sheath, the latter of which ensures zero ballistic drift from air resistance, allowing the bolt to follow a perfectly predictable trajectory from muzzle to target.
  • Shapeshifter: The rifle’s ergonomics are not fixed. Programmable matter within the weapon’s frame reshapes itself to the user’s hand upon biometric verification, creating a perfect anatomical fit for any species, cybernetic configuration, or armored glove. Controls can be repositioned or re-mapped via neural, blink, and voice command. While the Penumbra Neutralizer is meant only for KV-027, the programmable ergonomics allow her to have a perfect fit with the weapon.
WEAKNESSES
  • Unwieldy: The Penumbra Neutralizer has a large frame and a rate of fire markedly lower than that of a standard blaster rifle. It is generally slower and more difficult for KV-027 to wield in close-quarters than a smaller, lighter weapon.
  • Inertia Damper Dependency: The recoil mitigating inertial damper is an active electronic system. If the damper fails, whether due to battle damage, EMP (despite the hardening), or a software glitch, the rifle’s will immediately become extremely sharp. In such a case, the recoil impulse will carry the muzzle to the sky after only a single shot, making follow-up shots incredibly difficult. This creates a single point of failure: without the inertial damper, the weapon’s effective rate of fire is significantly lowered, limiting the amount of damage that the shooter can do in a given timeframe.
  • Extradimensional Terror: While the Penumbra Neutralizer fires a silent bolt, the impact itself is unmistakable, distinct, and often terrifying. The thunderclap-like report of the vacuum sheath’s collapse, the migraine-inducing flash of black anti-light, and the disorienting wrongness of extradimensional blackfire can immediately alert enemies to the presence of an exotic, sophisticated, and hyper-lethal threat. This can trigger a disproportionate hostile response, potentially making a given mission more difficult.
DESCRIPTION
A semi-experimental weapon, the Penumbra Neutralizer was created by First United Astral Engineering, who took the opportunity to experiment with directly weaponizing the exotic, extradimensional substance called Otherplasma. After efforts to stabilize the substance to more reliably burn at extreme, stellar core temperatures rather than randomly fluctuating proved successful, work was initiated directly on creating an Otherplasma sniper rifle.

Like all FAE-produced weapons, the Penumbra Neutralizer comes with a full suite of the company’s utility systems and standard components. A Ghost Link allows the shooter to control the weapon via thought, the Glimmerweave functions as the power source (chosen for its power delivery capability), a Prism Core serves as the onboard oversight droid brain, and a host of yet more systems make the weapon a breeze to wield in spite of its extreme technological sophistication.

The Penumbra Neutralizer's damage profile is a devastating triple-threat combination of thermal, kinetic, and radiological effects delivered simultaneously upon impact. The bolt strikes at 8–10 million degrees Celsius, unleashing stellar core temperatures liable to instantly vaporize material at the point of impact, ignite flammables nearby, and radiate enough heat to cook organic tissue even on near misses. This thermal fury is compounded by the bolt's extreme kinetic energy, which delivers roughly 207 kilojoules of force. This allows the semi-solid Otherplasma bolt to reliably smash through targets, generate catastrophic hydrostatic shock in organic tissue, unleash molten spalling from armored surfaces, shatter structural materials, and penetrate armor that would stop conventional anti-materiel rounds. Finally, the bolt's exotic dimensional origin introduces a radiological damage component. This can cause deep tissue radiation burns, cellular disruption, and lingering contamination of wound sites, with the vacuum sheath preserving the bolt's exotic radiation during its extended flight to deliver an intensified dose upon impact.

The bolt’s hypervelocity passage and sheer thermal radiation also have an extreme chance of inflicting damage even on a near-miss. Potential effects include but are not limited to: Retinal damage from anti-light exposure, eardrum rupture from the shockwave, clothing ignition from the heat flux, second-degree burns on exposed skin, disorientation or confusion from the psychic terror of the extradimensional plasma, and yet more.
 

Out Of Character Info

Intent: Create an Otherplasma-based sniper weapon for KV-027.
Permissions: See Body

Technical Information

Affiliation: KV-027
Model: N/A
Modular: Yes
Effective Range: Extreme
Rate of Fire: Semi-Automatic
Material: See Body
Ammunition Type: Compressed Otherplasma Canister
Ammunition Capacity: Small
Damage Output: Extreme
Recoil: Average
Ranged Class: Sniper Rifle
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