Approved Ranged Weapon Ssi-Ruuvi Bashreeft-type Entechment Hammer

[Dazzleskin]

SPECIAL FEATURES

• Entechment head
• Chain
• Internal power relay

STRENGTHS

• Deals high physical damage
• Drains a portion of the life energy of those hit
• Internally relays that power to a preset nearby large piece of Ssi-Ruuvi technology, such as a ship's power core or a portable shield generator

WEAKNESSES

• Short range
• Bulky and cumbersome and designed for Ssi-Ruuvi hands; can be used one-handed but generally not by humanoids
• Relatively low rate of fire (as the chain needs to retract and reset the entechment head from whatever it has just mauled, a process that takes perhaps a second)
• Low efficiency power uptake compared to full-scale entechment technology
• Can only relay power to other Ssi-Ruuvi technology, not to galactic standard tech base

DESCRIPTION
How do you entech a target into valuable energy in the field without strapping them into something the size of a table? If you're a Ssi-Ruuvi commander of a certain disposition, you turn entechment into a big mean gun-like device that blasts a macehead-style projectile on a chain. The projectile smashes its target and drains a portion of its life energy, especially if kind of embedded; the chain then rapidly retracts the projectile. The weapon contains an internal power relay that sends the collected power to somewhere reasonably nearby that needs it.

The undeniable practicality of this approach has made Bashreeft-type Entechment Hammers a staple of Ssi-Ruuvi outreach efforts, and more than one Unknown Regions raider crew, since the late 9th century.

 

[Delsin Shaw]

Why am I not surprised that you of all people would be making Doom Weapons.

Good work. Enjoy.

Approved.

Dazzleskin