AMCO
I'm Sorry Dave
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
The Hellpyre is a compact (compared to certain other flamethrowers), a highly-lethal weapon known to be monstrously effective in close quarters, but somewhat less suitable for hostage rescues, fighting near civilians (unless you don't mind dead civilians), and similarily delicate situations.
The standard fuel can be swapped out for alternate effects - a few, like CA-54, are perfect for non-lethal use by police forces, while some others are horrific even compared to being burned alive. CA-79 in particular is an unofficial variant that Globex goes to great lengths to distance itself from. It is still freely available on the black market, of course - the Galaxy has no scarcity of war-profiteering smugglers with a stunted moral compass.
- Intent: A flamethrower for the Open Market - complete with various alternate fuels.
- Image Source: Destiny 2 Curse of Osiris - Perfect Paradox by Ryan Won-Young Choi
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: Flamethrower | Fatty
- Manufacturer: The Globex Corporation
- Affiliation: Globex Security Division
- Market Status: Open-Market
- Model: KIIR-26 'Hellpyre' Flamethrower
- Modularity: Significant; see Special Features.
- Production: Mass-Produced
- Material: Hexalloy.
- Classification: Flamethrower+
- Size: Large
- Weight: Heavy
- Ammunition Type: High-Pressure Tank
- Ammunition Capacity: Small
- Effective Range: Point Blank
- Rate of Fire: Extremely High
- Damage Output: Very High
- Recoil: Average
- A Hellpyre has three weaponised segments - the emitter nozzle, an under-barrel stun blaster, and a sharpened spike. The spike can be fitted with vibroemitters, but these are often left out to cut costs with the expectation that soldiers 'put their back into it and kill the old way.'
- Those who object to the very concept of non-lethality can replace the stun blaster with a regular blaster.
- The spike can be removed, should the user have no wish to poke holes in skulls.
- Hellpyres only have enough fuel for about ten seconds of continuous firing; this can be alleviated with short, controlled bursts - or strapping a massive tank of highly explosive fuel to your back and rushing into battle while screaming like a maniac. To each their own.
- Hellpyres are compatible with a variety of at-times unconventional fuels, listed non-exhaustively below.
- CC-66, or 'Combustible Compound Sixty-Six', is the standard metric against which the rest are measured - this substance 'burns hotter than hell', sticks to whatever it hits, and can burn underwater or even (briefly) in the vacuum of space. Its distinctive blue flames are the last things many a victim has seen before their ocular nerves are fried by the heat and the flesh seared from their bones. It burns hot enough to melt durasteel, at least in sufficient doses, and is said to be capable of 'boiling Mandalorians alive with ease'.
- CB-V7, or 'CryoBan Variant Seven', is less flashy but no less deadly - the substance drains heat with horrific efficacy and has even been known to leave durasteel brittle enough to be broken by a Hellpyre's fore-mounted spike. Globex's chemists even made it sticky.
- CA-37, or 'Chemical Agent Thirty-Seven', takes the form of a sizzling green stream of 'war crimes given physical form'. It is a superbly potent acid - and just as importantly gives off toxic fumes well-suited to ruining respiratory systems. To make matters worse, it tends to stick to the target like CC-66 and CB-V7 before it, though unlike the former it may trickle off alongside 'melting armour and/or flesh'.
- CA-54, or 'Chemical Agent Fifty-Four', is the polar opposite - a stream of greyish, inoffensive-smelling goo that hardens within moments of contact, forming a shell around targets to incapacitate them. It is even possible to breathe through the substance - how humane!
- CA-79, or 'Oh Force, What Have We Done?', is a strictly illegal variant produced by the Apex Research Collective for the black market. It contains a 'safe' variant of the Blackwing Virus - people exposed to it will suffer various detrimental health conditions while corpses exposed to it reanimate as flesh-eating zombies. These zombies are incapable of spreading the infection... unless it mutates.
- BYOS, or 'Bring Your Own Substance' - found a void stone? Pulverise it and mix it with acid! (NB! May void the warranty.)
- Nasty Way to Go: Hellpyres feature inbuilt, high-pressure tanks and tight nozzles - perfect for unleashing a focused beam of flesh-melting fire or comparatively nasty concoctions. Victims are often only identifiable through genetic examinations and survivors may be maimed.
- Nastier Way to Go: High-pressure tanks are great for conserving space and not so great if ruptured by enemy fire or a misfire.
The Hellpyre is a compact (compared to certain other flamethrowers), a highly-lethal weapon known to be monstrously effective in close quarters, but somewhat less suitable for hostage rescues, fighting near civilians (unless you don't mind dead civilians), and similarily delicate situations.
The standard fuel can be swapped out for alternate effects - a few, like CA-54, are perfect for non-lethal use by police forces, while some others are horrific even compared to being burned alive. CA-79 in particular is an unofficial variant that Globex goes to great lengths to distance itself from. It is still freely available on the black market, of course - the Galaxy has no scarcity of war-profiteering smugglers with a stunted moral compass.
