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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To provide a personal blaster cannon in the Lucerne Personal Defense line-up
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- Canon Link: N/A
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- Manufacturer: Lucerne Personal Defense
- Affiliation: Directorate, Silver Jedi Concord, Lucerne Personal Defense customers
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: LPD-27 Flamestorm Assault Blaster Cannon
- Modularity: Rail attachments, scope, other typical blaster modifications
- Production: Mass-Produced
- Material: Blaster cannon components, Durasteel casing, electronics, micro repulsorlift, Permex furniture, Magnatomic Grip Panels
- Classification: Personal Blaster Cannon
- Size: Very Large
- Weight: Heavy
- Ammunition Type: Power pack and gas canister
Blaster Cannon Mode Supercharged Mode Repeater mode Ammunition Capacity: High (200 shots) Low (40 shots) High (350 shots) Effective Range: Average Battlefield Average Rate of Fire: High Low Extreme Damage Output: High Extreme Low Recoil: Average Average Average
- Picatinny Rail: This rail just to the left of the weapon's midsection allows the Flamestorm to accept a variety of aftermarket scopes, sights, and other attachments.
- Variable Fire Modes: The Flamestorm can be set to use several different gas and power consumption levels, allowing it to adapt and full different roles as needed.
- Repulsorlift Generator: The Flamestorm comes with a built-in micro repulsor to make it easier to carry the weapon and move it around.
- Built-in Bipod: The Flamestorm comes with a bipod that flips down from a compartment under the barrel, allowing it to be more easily used from a stationary position. This can be removed and replaced by tripod for improved stability, but the tripod cannot be retracted.
- Pivoting Spade Handle: The gun's rear grip can be rotated to point upwards (as shown in the picture) to allow easy from the hip firing, or rotated downwards to better enable prone/stationary firing.
- Data Uplink: The Flamestorm as a dataport that can allow it to link through a wire or wireless adaptor to HUDs in personal armor, visors, and vehicles.
- Stun Settings: The Flamestorm does have stun setting in its blaster cannon and repeater modes, which aside from not inflicting regular blaster damage are otherwise identical in terms of performance.
- Variable Fire Modes: The Flamestorm can alter the intake of its ammunition and firing cycle to allow it to be used in different weapon roles, making it a highly versatile personal heavy weapon.
- High Rate of Fire (Repeater Mode): The Flamestorm can operate as a standard medium repeating blaster not unlike the Mark II Medium Repeating Blaster, allowing it pour a high volume of fire. This is typically used for fire suppression role, though it also seems some use against groups of small, aerial targets.
- Magnum Stopping Power & Battlefield Range(Supercharged Cannon Mode):The Flamestorm can supercharge its bolts in a manner similar to the Hornet Interceptor's supercharged laser cannons, but the practical effects are more like that of BB-23 heavy blaster cannon. The produced bolt is enough to disintegrate sections of duracrete and durasteel or devastate a small number of clustered targets. It is frequently compared to and equivalent to a portable laser cannon, making it exceptionally dangerous to heavily armored battle droids and many vehicles.
- Bulky: The Flamestorm is a fairly large weapon, making it heavy and difficult to maneuver despite the addition of a microrepulsorlift.
- Low Stopping Power (Repeater Mode): The individual blaster bolts in repeating mode are fairly weak given the weapon's size, each being roughly equivalent to that of a compact blaster rifle.
- Slow rate of Fire (Supercharged mode): The supercharged bolts take time to build up full charge to fire, and then the weapon needs some time to cool down once fired, leading to a relatively slow rate of fire in this mode.
The LPD-27 Flamestorm is Lucerne Personal Defense's take on the assault cannon popularized by Galactic Republic troops during the Cold War. It is a bulky blaster weapon that shares more in common internally with a crew-served repeating blaster rather than a personal weapon. Despite its size and power, the Flamestorm is designed from the ground up to be operated by a single person. This is accomplished by carefully mimicking ergonomic choices from tried and tested assault cannon designs used in the Clone Wars and practically shows in the weapon's excellent balance despite its size by careful placement of its underslung handles. Unlike many of these older designs, the Flamestorm also incorporates a built-in microrepulsorlift, which reduces some of the felt weight. But given the power drain from this feature, it typically is only activated during particularly arduous physical activity such as long marches or during rapid assaults when under enemy fire. Despite its weight, many users find its tactical flexibility in its different fire modes well worth that tradeoff.
Blaster Cannon Mode: The Flamestorm acts as a typical personal-scale blaster cannon, sometimes referred to colloquially as an 'assault cannon', with each bolt packing a significantly higher punch, close to that of the classic E-Web's bolt. This is typically enough to cut through armored soldiers and significantly damage light vehicles such as speeder bikes and small walkers. With sustained fire, it can even damage small starships and aerial vehicles.
Repeater Mode: The Flamestorm focuses on obtaining a high rate of fire at the loss of individual bolt damage and cohesion. Individual bolts are typically as powerful as those of a blaster rifle. This typically makes it useful as a fire suppression weapon, and oftentimes fulfills a role classically filled by slugthrower machine guns. Because of its portable nature, however, the Flamestorm notably lacks an extended ammunition supply. This means that it is best used in burst capacity, or only as a temporary means of suppression fire.
Supercharged Mode: The Flamestorm focuses on producing massive blaster bolts with impressive power. In this mode, the Flamestorm's bolts can sometimes outright disintegrate person-sized targets and becomes a significant threat to many enemy vehicles. Bolts in this mode often produce a small blast radius of a meter or two, which means it highly effective against clustered together infantry and other lightly protected targets. Unfortunately, this power comes at the cost of a slow recharge time and a greatly reduced ammunition capacity.
Flamestorms are typically issued as squad level support weapons, often acting as alternative to repeating blasters, especially in highly mobile groups such as scouts and light infantry. They also frequently are found in the hands of short-range shock troops, such as shipboard marines and urban combat specialists. The weapons are also large and ergonomic enough that wookiees and other larger species have little trouble using them as basic personal weapons. Because of the potential power of these weapons and the local legalities of possessing such weapons, the vast majority of Flamestorms are in government and company hands, rather than individual users.
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