The Griffin of Zakuul
Plasma Disruptor Rifle
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a squad heavy weapon for the Hegemony.
- Image Source: Erik Rading
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: Plasma, Disruptor
- Manufacturer: Olympian Armorsmiths
- Affiliation: The Hegemony
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: Plasma Disruptor Rifle
- Modularity:
- Stock
- Sights
- Ornaments
- Bipod
- Production: Minor
- Material: Titanium, Blaster & Disruptor Components
- Classification: Plasma Disruptor
- Size: Large
- Weight: Heavy
- Ammunition Type: Tibanna Gas Cell
- Fire Mode: Normal | Charged
- Ammunition Capacity: Average | Low
- Effective Range: Average | Long Range
- Rate of Fire: Low | Very Low
- Damage Output: Very High | Extreme
- Recoil: Average | Very High
- Plasma Disruptor - By combining the two technologies, the weapon fires bolts of plasma which desintegrate the molecular structure of the target through immense heat. The heat is a side effect which will also affect a very small area around the hit target. When hitting armor plating it will make immediate repairs very difficult due to the still hot and melted surroundings of the impact.
- Disruptor + Energy Damage
- Firing Modes
- Effective against nearly any type of target
- Unstable, prone to jam
- Firing it too often can make the weapon explode
- General low rate of safe fire
Technology should never be forbidden and neither should its application. There are no evil or devilish weapons, only those who carry it can misuse it. Therefore the Olympian Armorsmiths see little need and pay little respect to the galactic approach to banning disruptors. It is either way a law which is undermined and navigated around at any given moment, especially by Special and Black Ops units.
The Plasma Disruptor Rifle is the first of a series of this kind of weapons, designed to be carried in a squad as its heavy weapon. It offers good armor piercing capabilities as well as suppressive ones due to the area of impact heat radiation. It is available to all Hegemony forces, except for on-ship usage, as its destructive potential could be desastrous when hitting an outer hull from the inside.
