Approved Ranged Weapon Qazûr-Pattern Soulpistol Mk. I

[Darth Prazutis]

• Intent: To submit a compact heavy blaster pistol designed as the signature sidearm of the Umbral Guard and other high level Kainate executioners, providing a flavorful, thematically appropriate backup weapon for close-quarters combat and ranged executions.
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• Manufacturer:
  
  • Malsheem Hypernautics and Manufacturing
• Affiliation:
  
  • The Kainate
• Market Status: Closed-Market
• Model: Qazûr-Pattern Soulpistol Mk. I
• Modularity: No
• Production: Limited
• Material:
  • Qazur Weave
  • Alchemized Bloodsteel Receiver and Barrel Shroud
  • High-Density Blaster Components and Focusing Array
  • Pyroclast Alloy
  • Inscribed Sith Runes & Micro-Circuit Sigil Lattice

• Classification: Heavy Blaster
• Size: Small
• Weight: Average
• Ammunition Type:
  
  • Standard Blaster Power Cell
  • Tibanna Gas Cartridge
• Ammunition Capacity: Small - 18 full power shots per cell / gas load before recommended swap.
• Effective Range: Average
• Rate of Fire: Average
• Damage Output: Very High
• Recoil: High

• Qazûr Weave Nerve-Binding Grip: The grip and portions of the internal frame are wrapped in Qazûr Weave, subtly interfacing with the wielder's nervous system to provide intuitive recoil management, draw speed, and trigger control. For attuned users, this creates an almost seamless "extension of the hand" feeling.
• Agony-Branding Bolt Modulator: The Soulpistol's focusing array shapes each bolt to deliver a brief, localized neuromuscular shock concurrent with impact. Targets struck experience a flash of paralyzing pain or numbness a heartbeat before tissue damage manifests, making glancing hits disruptive and full hits agonizing.
• Execution Oath Rune-Array: A strip of engraved High Sith and Qazûr sigils along the slide reacts to vocalized sentences of judgment. When the wielder formally pronounces a verdict (often in High Sith or Epicant), the runes dimly ignite and remain active until the next shot is fired, creating an unmistakable visual cue that an execution has been carried out "under sentence."
• Attunement & Anti-Theft Safeguard: Each pistol is ritually keyed to an authorized bearer or cadre. Unauthorized users suffer feedback through the Qazûr Weave grip in the form of sharp, distracting pain and degraded targeting stability, discouraging theft and battlefield scavenging.
• Sorcerous Conduit Mode (For Force Users): The internal lattice can be used as a channel for certain Force techniques (fear, pain, or domination-adjacent abilities), allowing a Sith wielder to "ride" a bolt with an additional psychic sting pr other effects.

• Heavy Execution Sidearm: The Qazûr-Pattern Soulpistol is built as a compact execution weapon rather than a light sidearm. Each shot hits with a punch greater than a heavy blaster, making it brutally effective at close to moderate ranges against and still effective against even heavily armed combat armor like Beskar or Impervium.
• Lightsaber and Deflection Resilience: The Soulpistol utilizes advanced particle beam blaster technology. This creates powerful bolts that explode once their path is impeded. Due to this it ensures any force user using a lightsaber to block or deflect will suffer disastrous results from the attempt, as they are washed with agonizing energy.
• Agony-Branding Impact: The neuromuscular shock imparted by the bolt modulator means that even near-misses and grazing hits can stagger or momentarily lock up a target, buying the Umbral Guard precious instants to reposition, close in with their pikes, or deliver the killing blow. Against crowds and prisoners, its reputation alone can break morale.
• Bound to the Verdict: The Qazûr Weave interface and attunement rituals make the weapon exquisitely responsive in the hands of its rightful bearer. Umbral Guards benefit from improved control, faster target acquisition, and reduced perceived recoil, giving them a small but meaningful edge in precision shooting compared to a standard heavy pistol.

• Limited Magazine, High Drain: The dense, overcharged bolts and the agony-branding modulation put significant strain on the weapon's power system. The Soulpistol carries fewer effective shots per cell than many heavy blasters, making it ill-suited to extended firefights without frequent reloads or support.
• Harsh Recoil & User Hostility: Even with its balanced frame, the Soulpistol kicks hard. In the hands of untrained or unauthorized users, the Qazûr Weave actively fights them, introducing pain and micro-tremors that severely degrade accuracy. Non-elite troops or enemies who pick it up will find it more liability than prize.
• Dark Side Dependent: While under Force Nullification, the Soulpistol's mystical features go dormant. The agony-branding effect weakens to a mild sting, the rune-array does not respond, and the weapon functions as a mundane, if still very high powered, heavy blaster.

Designed in concert with the creation of Qazûr Weave and the forging of the Umbral Guard, the Soulpistol was never envisioned as a common sidearm. The Shadow Hand wanted a weapon his executioners could carry into halls of power, ritual chambers, and war councils, something small enough to disappear beneath a cloak, but unmistakable once drawn. A pistol that did not simply kill, but pronounced a verdict.

The Shadow Mind and Malsheem's foundries responded with a compact heavy blaster wrapped around a spine of Qazûr Weave. The first prototypes were tested in secrecy on condemned traitors within the depths of the Sith Citadel on Dromund Kaas, their reactions studied as much for psychological effect as for lethality. Early designs burned too hot, their neuromuscular shocks causing instant cardiac failure more often than intended. The final pattern tempered that excess, yielding a weapon that made death a process, a flash of paralyzing agony, a breath to realize what had happened, and then the burn.

In the hands of an Umbral Guard, the Soulpistol feels less like an object and more like a coiled decision. The Qazûr Weave in the grip drinks in the wielder's pain and focus, binding the weapon into the closed loop of their nerves. Many Guards report that, in the moment before they fire upon a sentenced target, they can feel the condemned's fear echoing through the pistol as if it were a conduit. Whether this is superstition, a side-effect of their conditioning, or a genuine dark resonance is a question only philosophers and sorcerers care to debate.

Operationally, the Soulpistol is carried as a secondary instrument to the Qazûr Execution Pike and the Umbral Aegis. It comes into play when corridors are too tight for a pike swing, when a target must be put down at range without disrupting a formation, or when an execution must be performed in full view of witnesses as an object lesson. Before such killings, many Umbral Guards invoke the Qazûr Oath in High Sith or Epicant; The rune-array along the slide responds, flaring from dull ember to sharp, arterial red. When the trigger is pulled, that light gutters out, as if the weapon has consumed the sentence along with the life as a bolt is hurled at supersonic velocity.

Among the inner circles of the Kainate, the sight of a Soulpistol leaving its holster carries a specific, chilling clarity: Negotiations have ended. No appeals remain. The verdict has already been written, and it is about to be delivered at the speed of light.

 

[Krass Wyms]

Very Nice

Approved