Unreviewed Terrorblasters

[Evander Thule]

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

• Intent: To create personal ranged weapons for Evander Thule
• Image Source: N/A
• Canon Link: N/A
• Permissions: N/A
• Primary Source: N/A

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

• Manufacturer: Helix Privateers
• Affiliation: Evander Thule
• Market Status: Closed-Market
• Model: N/A
• Modularity: Yes
• Production: Unique (2 examples extant, utilized by the same person)
• Material:
  
  • General Construction: Blightsteel
  • Ammunition Block: Helsteel
  • Stun-Generator: Storm Iron
  • Electronics: Helglass
  • Internal Ammunition Priming Rays: Otherplasma
  • Internal Anti-Mechu Layer: Helixium

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

• Classification: Flechette Launcher
• Size: Very Small
• Weight: Very Light
• Ammunition Type: Energized Helsteel Flechettes
• Ammunition Capacity: Very High
• Effective Range:
  
  • Lethal: Personal
  • Nonlethal: Personal
  • Grenade: Average
• Rate of Fire:
  
  • Lethal: Extreme
  • Nonlethal: Extreme
  • Grenade: Low
• Damage Output:
  
  • Lethal: Very High
  • Nonlethal: Very Low
  • Grenade: High
• Recoil: High

SPECIAL FEATURES

• Multiple firing modes
• Stunning aftereffect
• Integrates into the user's forearm
• Can be retracted for concealment

STRENGTHS

• Tenderizer: Terrorblasters possess exceptional damage and rate of fire up close, and are ideally suited for dealing with numerically-superior opponents.
• Shocking Blast: Terrorblasters feature an optional stun mode, capable of inflicting brief but complete paralysis, and a light grenade-launcher analogue setting.

WEAKNESSES

• Close-In Killer: Aside from their fragmentation mode, Terrorblasters suffer from very short range across the board.
• Empty Tank: Terrorblasters fire either tiny metal shards at a blistering rate, or single chunks of energetically-charged shrapnel. In either case, their ammunition consumption is high, and can easily be burned through quickly.

DESCRIPTION

A custom weapon designed for a past client, these small arms were built by the Helix Privateers, and are designed to be integrated into cyborg physiology.

The Terrorblaster is normally wrist-mounted, folding neatly into its owner's cybernetic arms. It can be extended or retracted again with a mental command.

Internally, these are exceptionally sophisticated weapons, taking miniaturization to a heretofore-unprecedented level. The Terrorblaster accepts small blocks of solid Helsteel as ammunition, which can be fed into the weapon through the somewhat-unsettling means of unfolding the user's artificial forearm.

When the weapon is fired via an autonomic impulse from the user, small Otherplasma rays split a thin cross-section from the block, then carve dozens of microscopic faultlines throughout this fragment's structure.

This process also superheats the fragment to the point that it visibly glows with heat. The fragment is then split and ejected from the short barrel of the Terrorblaster with incredible violence.

The resultant directed spray of shrapnel is short-ranged, but profoundly deadly. The pre-faulted Helsteel chunk splits into countless tiny, needle-like flechettes, intended to lance through armor and shred whatever may be underneath.

When fired on full-auto, and utilized within short distances, these weapons can sweep a large room or a hallway clean of life in short order.

Optionally, the user may instead fire on a less-lethal setting. In so doing, the flechettes are reduced in both number and power, but imbued with the cyan lightning typically seen in Storm Iron. This usually delivers a violent electrical shock on impact, briefly incapacitating any who are struck by it.

Last, but certainly not least, the Terrorblaster features a third firing mode. This setting projects the aforementioned metallic chunk in its entirety rather than splitting it, effectively creating a small fragmentation charge. While necessarily limited in damage and blast radius, this can nonetheless allow the Terrorblaster to tackle packed infantry or light vehicles at greater range than normal.