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- Intent: Create a conceptual ammunition technology designed and manufactured by the Grutter Norr Ryk's State Defence Industries for use in their modern ranged ballistic firearms; in the tradition of Norr-designed ammunition being ferociously cruel to casualties, this one is radioactive.
- Image Source: N/A.
- Canon Link: N/A.
- Permissions: N/A.
- Primary Source: Cherenkov radiation, polonium, poison dart, radiation, radiation bomb, uranium.
- Designed: 880-890 ABY.
- Manufactured: 891 ABY-Onwards.
- Manufacturer: State Defence Industries.
- Affiliation:
- Grutter Norr Ryk.
- Citizens.
- Grutter Norr Ryk.
- Market Status: Closed-Market.
- Model: Fergif Pil Munysje (Norr: Poisoned Pil Ammunition).
- Modularity: Yes (Ammunition calibre and jacketed material can vary. Can be manufactured without radioactive core).
- Production: Mass Production.
- Material: Durasteel, Duranium, Polonium, Titanium, Tungsten, Uranium.
- Classification: Ballistic/Kinetic Ammunition Technology.
- Ammunition type:
- Armour-Piercing Caseless Full Metal Jacketed Radioactive Projectiles (With radioactive core).
- Armour-Piercing Caseless Full Metal Jacket Projectiles (Without radioactive core).
- Weight: Varies according to the dimensions of the ammunition.
- Armour-Piercing Duranium/Durasteel/Titanium/Tungsten Jacket.
- Polonium/Uranium/Alpha & Beta Radioactive projectile.
- Acute Radiation Sickness: These projectiles, when embedded into organic tissue, begin rapidly releasing the energy contained in the radioactive isotope that makes up the ammunition's core; the amount of released energy in the projectile is sufficient to rapidly induce physical symptoms to contact exposure such as burns, necrosis or ulceration. Metabolic symptoms can include Disorientation, fever, hair loss, infection and nausea.
- Armour-Piercing: When supersonic or hypersonic velocity, the projectile's metal jacketing is thicker at the tip and generally heats between 300 to 800 degrees Celsius under atmospheric friction depending on speed and atmospheric density; these characteristics assist in boring through thin ceramic or metal armour and those generally those constructed from polymer or derivative plastoid-type materials.
- Kinetic Energy: This ammunition carries kinetic energy behind it; its' kinetic energy scales depending on the mass and velocity of the projectile. Examples with high kinetic energy pose an issue for targets using lightsabres as their weapons. Any circumstance in which a lightsabre finds itself impacting the shell will generally see the lightsabre's hilt receive the bulk of its' carried kinetic energy. This could result in the lightsabre jolting unexpectedly in the user's hands or knocking it clean from their grasp. Radiation: The projectiles are designed to shed most of their thin jacket during flight except the armour-piercing tip; if a target survives the initial impact, the toxic radioactive core does its' work, and significant bleeding, notwithstanding the untreated acute-onset radiation poisoning, is fatal in minutes and attentive care is required for survival.
- Contrail: As the projectiles move through a medium and their jacket is shed with the radioactive material exposed, they generate a distinctive highly energised blueish contrail due to the emission of Cherenkov radiation, which can be trailed back to the source of the projectile.
- Droids: Due to their metallic construction and inorganic nature, droids are significantly less vulnerable to these projectiles than organic targets.
- Gravity: Unlike directed energy weapon projectiles with little atomic mass, these solid projectiles have a relatively high mass, which translates to high weight in an atmospheric setting; they are significantly more affected by phenomena like the Coriolis effect and the effects of gravity, especially at long range.
- Mass: Ballistic ammunition in the contemporary context is inferior to directed energy cartridges for a critical reason: solids have more mass than gasses. Additionally, physical projectiles take up greater storage volume at the personal level and in vehicles. As a result, soldiers equipped with weapons using this ammunition will typically be left carrying smaller quantities of ammunition than a contemporary opponent utilising standard energy weapons.
- Recoil: For ammunition of this nature, significantly scaled up, there needs to be consideration given to recoil management, inertial dampeners, and other recoil mitigation technology that can alleviate some of these issues, but it will generally translate into larger design sizes.
- Radiation: Once the projectiles have lost their shielded jacket, they pose an ecological risk to the environment and, more importantly, the people in it, including potentially the wielders, all of whom can become secondary casualties if they inhale the harmful alpha and beta radiation left in the air by the contrails or come into contact with the projectile.
- Vacuum: This ammunition is significantly less effective in a vacuum environment for two reasons; Firstly, in the absence of an atmosphere, the projectile doesn't heat due to friction. Secondly, without any atmosphere, the thin metal jacket around the radioactive core doesn't shed as intended, making this ammunition ill-suited as a candidate for warship weapon ammunition.
Poisoned Pil ammunition is a form of pill-shaped ballistic ammunition and the cruel invention of Norr weapons' technology used by the Norr Ryk; it generally consists of a highly toxic core constructed from uranium or polonium surrounded by a caseless dense material used as a shield that doubles as a jacket. The materials eligible for shielding include Duranium, Durasteel, Titanium and Tungsten. The shielding also doubles as an armour-piercing jacket assisting the deadly projectile in penetrating its target. The radioactive ammunition eventually decays into lead as a byproduct. The shell is highly dangerous; the Grutter Norr Ryk prohibits live-fire use in an open-air terrestrial environment within their territory due to the risk of environmental contamination. The prototype ammunition that won the production tender for an infantry-designated marksman rifle was a 110 grain 6.5 gram 10x60mm full titanium jacket uranium round fired at 1715 metres per second from a test platform that impacted its' target at a range of about 200 metres with approximately 9,558 joules of kinetic energy at a temperature of about 800 degrees Celsius. In an individual combat weapon system application, the poisoned pill ammunition is dangerous to unarmoured or lightly armoured targets.
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