knight_of_fire98
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Intent: A new standard issue armament to give Stormtroopers a fighting chance against hostile lightsaber wielders, and as a non lethal ranged alternative to blaster rifles.
Development Thread: If Necessary
Manufacturer: First Order
Model: X-11E
Affiliation: First Order
Modularity: No, but weapon comes in both left and right handed variants.
Production: Minor (Most squads will have at least one Stormtrooper trained to use one)
Material: Durasteel
Classification: Sonic Rifle
Size: Handheld
Length: 660mm
Weight: 6kg
Ammunition Type: Power cell
Ammunition Capacity: 60 shots
Effective Range: Short-Range Battlefield
Optimum (Lethal) Range: 0-50 meters,
Potentially Non-Lethal: Up to 300 meters.
Migraine Inducing/Disorientating: Up to 400 meters.
Rate of Fire: Semi-Automatic.
Special Features: Lever enables weapon operator to increase or decrease spread of the sonic blast to suit situations where accuracy or spread takes precedence.
-The further forwards the lever is pushed, the tighter the spread. The smallest the spread can be is a circular sonic wave with a diameter of 15cm.
-The further back the lever is pulled, the less tight the spread.The largest the spread can be is a circular sonic wave with a diameter of 150cm
Strengths:
-Sonic Weaponry is capable of penetrating simple shielding far more effectively than common blasters.
-Sonic blasts cannot be deflected by lightsabers, making them far more likely to significantly injure someone wielding one.
-Wide spread can hit multiple foes.
-Can shatter bone, debilitate enemies, rupture organs and disrupt the focus of force users.
-Foregrip folds up to allow easier storage.
Weaknesses:
-Battery Pack is exposed, a precise shot can disable the weapon.
-Short ranged compared to other weapons
-Incredibly loud, without a helmet and noise protection it can blow out the users ear drums.
-Can not be set to stun, only distance and limb shots enable targets to be taken out non lethally. Making capture difficult.
-Heavy, may quickly tire out users not used to the particually lofty weight. Subsequent decrease in accuracy could result in friendly fire if the blast fires near users feet.
-Though Sonic Weapons work in water, the wave will spread out much further. Massively increasing the risk of potentially lethal friendly fire.
-It takes a short amount of time to switch between wide and low spread.
Description: Developed in secret using data and plans collected by the ancient and once all powerful Galactic Empire. This weapon has been developed from the reverse engineered weaponry of the now extinct Geonosians, and the Imperial sonic pistols from long ago as a solution to increase Stormtroopers combat effectiveness and survivability against hostile lightsaber wielders, and to act as an effective means of ranged crowd control.
Sonic blasters are well known as a cruel and efficient weapon to those who can get their hands on them, capable of causing an enemy to bleed to death without shedding a drop of blood by rupturing someones internal organs and blood vessels. When facing foes who have encountered these weapons before or seen their effects and lived to tell about it, Stormtroopers armed with this weapon are likely to be immediately targetted due to the danger they present.
The X-11E utilises a containment sphere to trap its high impact concussive energy to prevent the sound dispersing uncontrollably into the area around it until it a target has been hit, increasing the weapons effective range and keeping its damage potential high at close range. At longer range, damage begins to fade after 50 meters as energy is lost due to the resisting force of air particles and as dust gathers at the waves head, which in significantly filthy areas may reduce visibility for both friend and foe a huge amount of dirt enters the air.
Past 50 meters, and up to 300. The wave carries enough power to shatter bone, rattle a brain to cause unconciousness, and can effectively wind targets or induce vomiting if the blast comes into contact with the stomach. At 300 meters +, much of the initial force is lost but the the sudden change in pressure can
still create dizzyness, migraines and pop someones ears.
The weapons discharge is also colourless, but is none the less visible by the way it moves through and displaces air.
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