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Tired of hauling around that assault rifle day to day, want to pack actual clothes too in your luggage when you go away?
Want an affordable gamechanger, or a gun that won't let you down?
We at FFE appreciate your need to have a gun you can depend on, that doesn't weigh more than a Herglic carrying its young.
Tired of hauling around that assault rifle day to day, want to pack actual clothes too in your luggage when you go away?
Want an affordable gamechanger, or a gun that won't let you down?
We at FFE appreciate your need to have a gun you can depend on, that doesn't weigh more than a Herglic carrying its young.
Intent: To offer a compact, reliable sonic wave pistol on par with chaos’s modern technology, and a counter to many blaster and slug resistant armors that don’t yet build resistances for sonic wave energy. *Note sonic wave energy differs from regular sonic rifles in how it interacts (discharges) concussively against lightsabers and matter such as armor.
Development Thread: N/A
Manufacturer: Fire for Effect
Model: SW-12 Jack-Knife
Affiliation: Closed Market, from Fire for Effect’s Marketplace thread, or a sponsored representative.
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Modularity: No
Production: Mass Produced
Material: Basic Durasteel
Classification: Sonic Wave Pistol
Size: Handheld
Length: 150 mm
Weight: 952 g
Ammunition Type: Sonic Wave Charge
Ammunition Capacity: 60 Charges. (20 Shots)
Effective Range:
Optimum 20 Meters
Maximum 50 Meters
Rate of Fire: Semi Automatic, 3 Round Bursts, no single or autofire option
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Special Features: Sonic weapons by their definition can cause disorientation when you are struck by them, but this is less likely in the condensed form of sonic energy. Sonic wave or sonic blaster weapons fire a concentrated mass of sound that is devastating to living tissue, when struck they explode concussively outward in an omnidirectional but very small blast given this is a pistol charge.
Description:
Fire for Effect are constantly looking for weapons the public can buy that fill a niche, or try to give them the edge over their opponents, it was decided that the galaxy at large needed a new competitive, compact and reliable pistol. With the wide rise in slug and blaster resistant armor, sonic wave weapons are a natural choice, a concentrated mass of sound rather than blaster energy, causing a concussive force. Sonic wave weapons differ from regular sonic rifle's or pistols somewhat, using small explosive spheres of concentrated sound rather than focused bolts of sonic energy or expanded stun blasts. The ammunition is fired in an energized containment sphere, exploding on impact in all directions rather than puncturing, bursting internal organs if striking exposed skin in a small radius under the impact wound, and damaging or rupturing any inorganic matter nearby such as unresistant armor. It should be noted this is a pistol, so the radius is confined to where it hits, an arm, a leg, or a small surface area.
A marked difference to regular sonic rifles or pistols that pass around a lightsaber blade, sonic wave technology instead explodes on contact with a lightsaber, both however are one example of how sonic energy interacts differently to regular blasters.
Weaknesses:
-Limited Ammunition, 3 rounds a time at 60 per cell, with no option for a single shot mode.
-Much lower max range than a blaster pistol, with the optimal range being a bit lower as well.
-Very hard to repair if it breaks, replacement parts are near impossible to fit.
-No complex equipment, a deadly but otherwise basic weapon.
-Small surface area for the ammunition's concussive force.
Strengths:
+Explodes on contact with lightsabers or anything else, rupturing inorganic matter such as armor, and bringing concussive force to damage or burst internal organs if striking unarmored targets or contacting exposed tissue.
+Not a slug, not a blaster shot, sonic wave energy requires different counters and resistances to protect against concussive sound waves specifically.
+Can cause disorientation if struck non fatally, but this is less likely when using the wave technology.
+Reliable, no complex equipment means there is little to break down.
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Reference Links for existing canon tech.
Sonic Blaster
Sonic Blaster
