Alric Kuhn
Handsome K'lor'slug
Intent: To create a weapon to counter all of these silly unbeatable armors.
Development Thread: If Necessary
Manufacturer: Vanir Technologies
Model: VT-Disruptor Knife
Affiliation: Closed-Market
Modularity: No
Production: Limited
Material: Terenthium & Desh Alloy, Diathium Powercell, Aurodium, Duraplas
Classification: Knife
Size: One-Handed
Length: 34.3cm
Weight: .39kg
Special Features:
- Disruptor Field
- Flashlight Hilt
- Duraplas Hilt
- Disruptor Field: The Disruptor Knife, as it's name would imply, as one great advantage. Surrounding the base blade of Terentium and Desh Alloy is a small film of aurodium. This aurodium is hooked into a small generator contained within the hilt of the knife itself. This means when activated, the aurodium is capable of projecting a miniscule layer of the same type of energy that is normally found within the shot of a disruptor weapon. This field is then encaptured within a magnetic barrier, keeping it 'around' the blade of the knife. What effect does this have? The same effect as any disruptor weapon, specifically one like the VT-Needle Disruptor. When the field is active the Disruptor Knife is capable of cutting through pretty much any material, slicing easily through metal, rock, and of course flesh.
- Knife: When the Disruptor field is not active, the blade is still that, a blade. It is not the sharpest, and it is not the most durable, but it's still quite a good knife. Capable of cutting things and slicing some other things.
- Interference: The Disruptor knife is of course, not perfect. The Energy field that is projected around the blade itself is volatile, so volatile in fact that when it comes into contact with certain other energy fields it tends to fail. This failure is a backlash of the containment field into the hilt, causing a short within the powercell and then a subsequent violent, and quite powerful explosion of the Diathium powercell. This explosion is enough to tear the users arm off, or kill them entirely if they're not wearing any sort of armor. Most noticeably this effect occurs when the field of the Disruptor Knife meets the containment field of a lightsaber. In all such tests, the Disruptor knife came to a violent end. Of course, one could simply turn the Disruptor field off but then the Lightsaber would slice through the knife's regular edge, which would of course permanently disable the disruptor field due to the lack of a stable platform.
- Blade Eater: Due to it's nature as a Disruptor weapon, the VT-DF is quite simply put, destructive at a base level. This means that even to itself, the Disruptor knife is harmful. The mixture of Terenthium, Desh, and Aurodium allows the blade of the knife to survive for quite some time, but eventually the disruptor field will simply 'eat' through the blade itself. This means that constant use of the Knife's disruptor field will eventually render the knife completely useless until it's blade is replaced. This can be mitigated by effective control of the Disruptor field, but even then after an hour total of use, the blade must be replaced.
- Power Cycle: The blade's power supply is only capable of rendering the blade active for one solid minute. After this minute passes the blade requires a recharge time of ten minutes. A good combatant however can stretch this time, turning the blade on and off frequently so that the Disruptor field is only active when it actually slices. This makes the blade last longer in combat and also adds a learning edge to using the Disruptor Knife.
The VT-Disruptor Knife came about as a way for soldiers, specifically Saeva Incorporated Mercenaries, to fight heavily armored opponents that are now so prevalent on the battlefield.
As armor technology continues to develop and expand, it has become incredibly clear that most weapons are simply not keeping up. Though high powered rifles and heavy blaster cannons are still capable of penetrating most armor, there are some manufacturers in the galaxy who have begun to production of Powered Armors as well as Phrik monstrosities that even some turbolasers struggle to penetrate. This has of course been a subject of contention for Vanir Technologies before, and with the production of the VT-Needle Disruptor the problem was somewhat solved. However, the question eventually came up of what would happen when one of these massive tank like armors came in close.
The solution, albeit a somewhat audacious one, was the production of a weapon that would allow a soldier to fight back even while getting their windpiped crushed by a guy in power armor.
The development of Disruptor Weapons for Vanir Technologies has always been an interesting step, with the VT-Needle being first, the Missile Second, and now the VT-Disruptor knife being third.
In truth, the Disruptor Knife is hardly a weapon of mass destruction nor a weapon designed to be the perfect solution. In reality the Disruptor Knife takes many of it's design aspects from the famed Lightsaber, using a near replica of the plasma blades containment field as well as the same powercell. Where they diverge is the use of a 'stabilizing agent', which in the Disruptor Knife's case is it's Terenthium and Desh, Aurodium alloy blade. This blade allows the projector in the hilt to 'filter' over it, stabilizing the normally chaotic particles of the disruptor weapon. This stabilizing agent is of course used up and suffers deterioration, but lasts long enough that the blade is still useful.
There are of course risks in the use of the Disruptor Knife, as with most other weapons.
The greatest of these risks is the use of the blade against Lightsabers. The weapon reacts violently when met with a lightsaber blade, the two energy fields meeting causing a massive surge of energy which the Diathium powercell simply cannot handle. Even the most heavily armored user of the blade will suffer the loss of their hand, if not their entire arm if this were to occur. At times the explosion has been so violent that it caused the end of a test subjects life(RIP George).
Despite this, the Disruptor Knife is an incredibly useful tool, allowing even the most common of soldiers to fight back against the heavily armored Titan's of today's battlefield.
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