Did Someone Order a War?
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: HETAP High Explosive Terror, Armor Piercing Round.
- Image Source: Here
- Canon Link: Depleted Baradium | Armor Piercing Missile | BC22
- Permissions: FFE is owned by my characters.
- Primary Source: None
- Manufacturer: Fire For Effect
- Affiliation: Fire For Effect, Closed Market.
- Model: FFF-HETAP, Focused Fear Fire, High Explosive Terror, Armor Piercing Round.
- Modularity: None.
- Production: Mass-Produced
- Material: Baradium 357 Chemical Explosive | Mullinine Casing and Shrapnel | Toxic Coolant | Depelted Baradium Armor Piercing Tips
- Classification: HETAP, High Explosive Terror, Armor Piercing Round.
- Size: Large
- Weight: Very Heavy
- Explosive Type: Chemical
- Delivery Method: Fired
- Effective Range: Battlefield
- Area Of Effect: Average
- Stopping Power: Average
- An average projectile with good range for the size of gun it's fitted to, which is very large or extremely large, typically intended to cut through modern capital ship armor or thick structures.
- Usually fired out of a Mass driver or Railgun, the projectile could theoretically work in any direct fire weapon. It has a violent screaming sound while in the atmosphere or on impact.
- Baradium-357's coolant named Directive 44 is able to produce violent and irrational psychotic impulses upon exploding in a gaseous cloud, lingering and spreading after the initial explosion.
- High Penetration against hull and armor both with the initial depleted baradium's explosive impact and the projectiles sharp Mullinine casing. Delivering an explosive payload of Baradium-357 internally into walkers, structures and capital ships. Fragmentation of the sharp Mullinine can also be lethal to anyone in the vicinity.
- It is designed for very long-range fire out of guns like mass-drivers and railguns designed to do so. Having a very loud ear-piercing scream when the weapon impacts, or en route in the atmosphere, the sound can cause fear or lower morale when people understand what is coming.
- After cracking open structures, walkers and capital ships, targets will have their crew or passengers exposed to the coolant's toxic fumes often sending them violently insane. Making this a very effective bunker buster to smoke out targets.
- Combustible, uses a toxic coolant FFE have named Directive 44, based on the Centax Purifying Liquids to keep the chemical in check. If the coolant or chemical is exposed to air before firing, the resulting reaction can cause the people aiming the weapon to experience the same effects as their intended target.
- Although the projectile isn't small, it does often go cleanly into the armor of something, not causing external damage to the armor. Even internally though this is a dangerous projectile, the explosive potential could be greater still. Instead, it opts to pack itself with less explosive but fragmenting material, and also a layer of coolant with which to cause the gaseous effects.
- Illegal. Due to the nature of this weapon, chemical warfare is often illegal on many worlds, as is transporting the weapon there.
Fire For Effect are still often employed by more colorful groups looking for an edge on their competitors. Most of which have lost most of their power these days, or been crushed under the heel of large organizations. A few still have teeth, and occasionally they will look up their old friends at FFE for an answer.
As is traditionally the case, if FFE are making something, a much-awaited twin suitcase full of spices is deducted from expenses. Their testing methods haven't got any prettier but certainly more efficient. Still arming gangs to engage other gangs in the cycle of life, gaining field results and test data the galaxy over. Goros the Hutt is rumored to be dead, perhaps he is, but if so he'd have enjoyed the design they've put together.
Nicknamed rotten screamers for the way they cut the air in the atmosphere and the sound they make as they impact. The FFF-HETAP is a large sleek looking projectile by all accounts. Too sleek for Fire For Effect's tastes, who during testing went and uglied up the weapon's nose cones with pictures of Ewok sith lords, after smoking too much of the empire's finest spicetraitor Corellian splitter half-mix. Nevertheless the usual way this weapon presents itself is tidy looking, and if it wasn't filled with a chemical compound looking to cut into your hull and explode inside sending you all mad, it might be considered a sleek work of art.
Exposure to the compound causes violent and irrational psychotic impulses, though it is difficult to tell if its the Baridium-357's proximity affecting the toxic liquid or if the coolant alone is capable of this without the Baridium-357 isotope. Further testing is required and will likely be ongoing if this company's past is anything to go by. Baridium-357 itself was discovered quite by accident when going through the data archives, unknown to FFE a certain HRD droid was given the information, by a certain Nayus salesman, who heard it from a cloaked figure who only referred to herself as Kae from the Galactic Alliance.
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