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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Intent: To provide a sonic pistol in Lucerne Personal Defense's inventory
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PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Manufacturer: Lucerne Personal Defense
Affiliation: Directorate, Silver Jedi, Closed Market
Model: LPD-22 Furor Sonic Pistol
Modularity: Upper and Lower Picatinny Rails, "B" version removes sonic disruptor setting
Production: Mass-Produced
Material: Durasteel frame, Permex Furniture, sonic pistol components
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Classification: Sonic Pistol
Size: Small
Weight: Light
| Sonic Pistol Mode | Wave Stunner Mode | Sonic Disruptor mode | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ammunition Capacity | 40 | 120 | 10 |
| Reload Speed | Average | Average | Average |
| Effective Range | Personal (30 meters) | Personal (60 meters) | Personal (20 meters) |
| Rate of Fire | Average | Very High | Very Low |
| Stopping Power | Average | Low | Very High |
| Recoil | Low | Very Low | High |
- Sonic Pistol: The Furor is a sonic weapon, which fires compressed bolts of high-intensity sound, or alternatively can act as a nonlethal stun weapon by emitting a high-pitched cone of wailing noise that can cause disorientation or a loss of consciousness.
- Variable Fire Modes: The sonic projector in the Furor can have its output frequency altered, allowing the Furor to produce a variety of sounds, from typical compressed sonic bolts to area of affect sonic stun waves to tightly compressed and highly energized sonic disruptor bolts.
- Picatinny Rails: The Furor features a pair of Picatinny rails on the top and bottom, which allow it to accept aftermarket attachments such as scopes, sights, and tactical lights.
Strengths:
- Exotic: While not any more powerful than the typical blaster pistol, the Furor's exotic nature grants it a number of small advantages compared to typical blasters, such as improved performance within water and other liquids and an inability to be blocked by most lightsabers.
- Variable Fire Modes: The Furor's output frequency and pulse can easily have its settings changed, allowing it to fulfill the roles of a typical sonic pistol, wide beam sonic stunner, and sonic disruptor with the turn of a dial.
- Heavy Damage (Disruptor mode): In the disruptor mode, the Furor can inflict an incredible amount of damage as it breaks down materials at the molecular level. This makes it unusually powerful for its size and well suited to damaging or destroying heavy targets.
- High Rate of Fire (Stunner Mode): In stunner mode, the Furor produces almost constant pulses of sound, giving little respite to those the user is trying to subdue.
- Short Range: The Furor, like most sonic weapons, has a relatively short range in all of its fire modes.
- Vacuum: The Furor is entirely useless in vacuum, as its sound waves cannot effectively in this medium. This makes it fairly unpopular for space-going users such as pilots and spacetroopers, who have the distinct possibility of having to use a weapon in that environment.
- Slow Rate of Fire (Disruptor Mode): While incredible powerful in disruptor mode, like most disruptors, it also has a very low rate of fire combined with little ammunition capacity and a very short range. This makes this mode of limited utility during extended fights.
- Low Damage (Stunner Mode): While in stunner mode, the Furor is not supposed to inflict damage, it is relatively low-powered for a stun weapon, often taking several seconds to take full effect whereas a typical stun blaster may only take a second. This is partially offset by the Furor's ability to affect multiple targets at once.
The Furor is Lucerne Personal Defense's first foray into the sonic weaponry market. While broadly comparable in basic performance to typical blaster pistols in its traditional fire mode, LPD focused heavily developing the Furor's ability to modulate its sonic projector. This allows end users to change the intensity and the frequency of the weapon's sonic waves, which in turn allows it to produce effects similar to already existing sonic weapons. This allows the Furor to take the place of those weapons with just the adjustment of a dial.
The Wide beam sonic stunner was prioritized first, taking developmental cues not only from the ancient Juggernaut War Droid's weapon, but also the more modern and advanced Sil-50. In this setting, the Furor produces a cone of low-frequency disorienting sound that disrupt people's equilibrium or knock them unconscious. This cone is approximately half a meter wide at around three meters from the barrel, and up to five meters wide at its maximum effective range of sixty meters. Other common effects include nausea, dizziness, disorientation, and short term memory loss. The nature of this area of effect makes it particularly useful for law enforcement officers as a riot control weapon, because it does not permanently harm its targets and disrupts large groups of targets at a time. Pest Hunters and wild life control specialists also found it useful because it reduces collateral damage to a minimum while the area of effect nature of the weapon means that it does not need direct hits against agile and fast moving targets.
The sonic disruptor takes the opposite approach of the stunner, producing extremely narrowly focused, high frequency waves in a single, highly energized bolt. When this bolt hits a target, the intense vibrations contained within the bolt reverberate into and inside the target, which can cause significant molecular disruption. In practical effects, the effects of the Furor in this mode are almost indistinguishable from a typical energy-based disruptor pistol. Though the Furor packs impressive power in this mode, it is also extremely short-ranged and packs a long recharge time between shots. Combined with the potential catastrophic effects of a missed shot, most adopting organizations rarely encourage using this mode. However, this mode is exceptionally useful when facing large, heavily shielded or armored targets or when trying to demolish formidable barriers.
Given the controversial ethics of using disruptor-based weaponry on many worlds, Lucerne Personal Defense is extremely careful and limited in who they sell the mainline Furor too. Consequently, the vast majority of sales have been to military and police units where the legal issues can be dealt with fairly straightforward. For civilian users and more limited markets, Lucerne Defense does sell a LPD-22B, which does not have the disruptor setting, but is otherwise the same weapon. This version is particularly popular on water worlds and worlds where regulations are conventional blasters are more strict.