Approved Ranged Weapon BOLT-THROWER KARBINE-93 | UNITED IMPERIA

[United Imperia]

BOLT-THROWER KARBINE-93

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

• Intent: To downgrade and discount the SRK-65 into a new, modern, and affordable package!
• Image Source: E-1 Enforcer blaster rifle
• Canon Link: NA
• Permissions: THE Tavlar's Blessing
• Primary Source: SRK-65 Particle Beam Service Rifle | ARC-9965 blaster rifle

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

• Manufacturer: United Imperia
• Affiliation: Imperial Remnant Factions | PMCs | Galaxy-at-large
• Market Status: Open Market
• Model: BTK-XCIII
• Modularity: None, combined with proprietary parts making post-factory additions difficult if not impossible.
• Production: Mass-produced
• Material:
  • Polymer Furniture
    • Low quality, impure, and famously brittle
  • Eleton Gas
  • Low threshold heat sink
  • Stamped durasteel components
    • Internal bulk leading to a heavier weight
  • Low charge blaster power packs
  • Inbuilt, non-removable macroscope
  • Integrated blaster suppressor
• Classification: Service Blaster Carbine
• Size: Average
• Weight: Heavy
  • Cheap materials, cheap quality, heavy-make.
• Ammunition Type: Eleton Gas Power Packs
• Ammunition Capacity: Very Small | 20 Bolts
• Effective Range: Average | 500 Meters
• Rate of Fire: Very High
  • There is no real cap on the rate of fire for the BTK-XCIII, accelerating the longer the trigger is held down -- the only thing holding this back is the barrel warping from the heat and the low capacity of its power packs.
• Damage Output: Low
  • Eleton gas is the poor man's tibanna, only able to reliably punch through light armors.
• Recoil: Very Low
  • A heavy, low power blaster made out of stamped materials -- most of the kickback is absorbed into the weapon's weight itself.

SPECIAL FEATURES

• Better Than A Rock, Sometimes
  
  • The bolt-thrower is mentionable for its poor workmanship, anti-marksmen sighting, over-heating components, and cheap manufacturing -- these realities create the one impressive feature; the cost per-unit. Dwarfing even the expense of a DL-18, the BTK-XCIII cost a measly 250 credits to purchase in any fair-trade Galactic market.

STRENGTHS

• Your Hearing Loss is NOT Service Related
  
  • One of the few quality-of-life features, the integrated suppressor minimizes the need for hearing protection for the shooter -- as well as adding light stealth capabilities to the weapon.
• Suppressing Fire
  
  • While unsustainable, the 2,000/RPM the BTK-XCIII could theoretically get up to makes a fireteam armed with these blasters able to force a much larger squadron to keep their heads down.

WEAKNESSES

• Improvised Hand Grenade
  
  • The BTK-XCIII overheats very, very easily. If power cells are cycled too fast and fired at too great a rate, the weapon is liable to simply explode in the users' hands. Essentially turning it into a fragmentation grenade. This is normally lethal.
• Exposed Internals
  
  • Don't get it wet, don't get mud in it, don't use it in a sandstorm.
    
    • On second thought, don't use this weapon outside of a hospital-clean firing range.
• Held Together With Plastoid Tape
  
  • Despite the weapon being anti-repair with proprietary parts, it breaks surprisingly easily in the field. With the low-quality polymer regularly cracking under even simple stressors.
    
    • This normally translates to ordering a whole new blaster, as repairing the weapon is more expensive than a replacement.

DESCRIPTION

The first product to be released by the syndicalist weapons guild of United Imperia, the BOLT-THROWER KARBINE-93 promises to live up to the history of the E-11 platform for the modern age at an affordable price! This weapon is intended to be mass-produced in simple stamp manufacturing plants and dispersed in gross numbers. Cheap and dead basic, the blaster is one of desperation. As United Imperia's first step into arms-manufacturing, they aim to catch the market of cash-strapped revolutionaries and budget-shopping PMCs.

 

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United Imperia

Nicely made sub.

Approved.