Reluctant Murderer
THUNDAHVELIN: GLORY TO ALL WHO CARRY IT
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To make a really scuffed weapon.
- Image Source: The RPF Forum [x]
- Canon Link: None.
- Permissions: None.
- Primary Source: None.
- Manufacturer: Harri, Auxiliary of the Brotherhood of the Maw. [x]
- Affiliation: Brotherhood of the Maw [x]
- Market Status: Open Market
- Modularity: Yes. The warhead can be modified to be incendiary, concussive, ionic or chemical.
- Production: Mass produced.
- Material:
- A large stick. Typically taken from wood, or rebar.
- A sensor node, the type found in most airlocks and doors for automatic use.
- Two hardened prongs. Typically of durasteel or durasteel alloy.
- Explosive warhead. Variable in use, but comprised of either household chemicals, electronics or fertilizer dependent on the type.
- Classification: Dependent on the choice of warhead, the Thundahvelin can act as an ionic weapon, an incendiary, concussive or alternatively in anti-vehicle capacity, or even as a chemical weapon.
- Size: Very Large
- Weight: Heavy
- Explosive Type: Dependent on the warhead
- Ionic
- Concussive
- Incendiary
- Chemical
- Delivery Method: Thrown
- Effective Range: Average
- Area Of Effect: Large
- Damage Output: Very High
- The Battery: As apart of the detonator, a frayed household battery has been added to it. This in turn cuts shields, and allows the weapon to pierce shields.
- Sensor: The sensor within the detonator knows that upon its impact, it will go boom. These sensors are typically scavenged from the doors of gutted dwellings or vessels.
- The Hooks: At the very tip of the Thundahvelin are designed to pierce armour slightly, in the seconds before detonation, and maximise the hurt. Most of these are tempered, and made from durasteel and affiliate alloys.
- The Warhead: It varies in regards to its size and capacity, but typically it's explosives cooked inside of a can. Either in the form of a crude ion bomb, some homemade explosive, or some hideous chemical waste. In any case, it's kept at the top until detonated.
- Multi-Purpose: Test of the Thundahvelin have shown it to be effective in an anti-personnel or vehicle role, dependent on the warhead.
- Easy To Make: The components for the weapon are scavenged largely from homemade sources. The explosive, made with kitchen chemicals. The sensor components from doors, and household batteries sourced for the shield piercing effect.
- Shield Piercing: Testing on a few salvaged shield systems has shown that the Thundahvelin is actually quite a potent weapon, able to pierce most if not; all personal and armoured shield systems.
- Range: To really use it, you sort of need to be in range to be able to throw it. So you’ll need to be at a distance, within the range of most blasters. Hardly ideal.
- Impact Explosive: Once the sensor within the the warhead detects an impact, it detonates. Even if you miss. Which you may, given how awkward these are.
- Thick Armour: The Thundahvelin struggles against larger, densely armoured targets. It’s best deployed on weaker points, or on lightly armoured targets.
Today Gentle Ken was set to kill Harri, one of the Chiss Auxiliaries with whom Braygar decided to enslave. Apparently this was on the racial basis. Blue skin makes you smart(?). Well in any case, Harri has of course been the victim of many crude pranks and been provoked to such action many a time. Such as having buckets of urine thrown on him, filling his boots with more urine, and feeding him the moldiest, urine soaked rations that can be salvaged. Well, today was the day the man broke. Gentle Ken had allowed one of his Massiffs to chew the bedding on Harri’s mattress. He later went missing, and no one noticed. Until there was an explosion.
The hanging offence which Harri was found summarily guilty of, was that he had managed to detonate the lock mechanism on Gentle Ken’s Massiff pen. A miraculous feat, given the care in which Ken cares for his hounds. As the beasts are kept both behind a reinforced durasteel plated cage, that it is powered with an augmented shield system. In any case there was an explosion, sending the whole pack running into the wilderness. Gentle Ken was almost about to tear Harri a new one with his saca tripas when Kerri intervened. Kerri wanting to investigate. Given he knew of the kennels safety precautions and Harri had no clearance for explosives. When questioned, Harri admitted he’d managed to make a potent explosive, with three articles. One. A broken battery to one of the torches. Two, fat taken from the wash up. And three, a sensor. He’d combined them crudely, and with a stick, flung it right at the lock, detonating it.
Harri, at both now Braygar and Kerri’s request demonstrated his design. It was quite crude. But when tested again on a piece of wood, protected by a small shield his ordnance penetrated both the shield and blew up the plank. The others tested it a bit. On a speeder bike, then on a womp rat, and then on a protocol droid. And then womp rats again. Much to their delight. So much so Braygar decided to commute Harri’s punishment from execution, to that of just finding the massiffs.
Unfortunately for him, he lost an arm and a leg, although I’m not entirely convinced that was an accident. No matter what, justice was served, and now sans limbs Harri has been transferred to the care of Quartermaster Joh’s care. As of writing this, about a thousand of these things, which the others are calling ‘Thundahelins’ have been put around. Currently there’s now a rush for scrap metal and components. Given the ease of manufacture, it’s hard to see how these things won’t become the norm.
This is Rausgeber, signing out.
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