Luku Plika (Destruction Bug)

[Ardgal Raxis]

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

• Intent: To expand on a Wookie Sub
• Image Source: Here
• Canon Links:
  Blast Bug
  Sparkbee
• Restricted Missions: N/A
• Primary Source: N/A

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

• Manufacturer: RMIA
• Model: Luki Plika
• Affiliation: Closed Market (ask first)
• Modularity: Minor--Color or appearance may be changed
• Production: Mass Produced
• Material: Yorik Coral, sparkbee, living tissue

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

• Classification: small Vong biot, personnel Missile, grenade
• Size: Handheld
• Length: .2 meters
• Weight: .4 kg
• Ammunition Type: Itself
• Ammunition Capacity: Fired once
• Effective Range: Personal
• Rate of Fire: Single Action

SPECIAL FEATURES

• Rapid Flight speed
• Vong biot
• Missile
• Explosive
• Homing Missile
• Small target

DETAILED SPECIAL FEATURES

• Vong Biot: Since this is a vong biot, is pretty much unable to be affected by the force, for good or bad
• Rapid flight speed: This biot is designed to fly at speeds that rival those of your average missile
• Explosive: This thing is a personal missile, basically, so it detonates
• Small target: This thing is pretty small, and that makes it hard to shoot, hit, or otherwise damage.
• Homing Missile: See strengths and details for how it works in full detail, but basically this thing acts like a homing missile in flight, it locks on its target visually and flies till it hits it.

Strengths:

• Homing Missile: This small bug homes in on its targets pretty well. Its visual receptors are pretty great, so its good at what it does--moving in to hit a target with maximum damage and efficiency, even if that means moving around a few barriers.
• Safe against Squishy: This bug is no mere impact explosive. So, if someone smashes the bug on the user, the user is ok (even if its a waste of a good biot). There is an internal charge that makes this badboy detonate.

Weaknesses :

• Short flight distance: This bug is designed to go a short distance then detonate. It can't go across a battlefield or go searching forever, its made for personal range. Also, this thing is limited to line of sight, so really, if you can't see it (at least initially) it won't really have any idea where to go, and will stay put.
• Wind: This thing is pretty small. Winds at like 20 mph and higher could totally mess with this thing's flight patterns, slow it down, or (if its coming from behind) speed it up. In effect, wind could change its direction, even temporarily, and slow down or whatever.
• Space: The Luku Plika has a need for air to fly. Without even a thin atmosphere, the Luku Plika is basically just a plain old grenade.
• Prepping: The Luku Plika isn't some weapon you can just pick up off the shelve and use--or just grab off a dead body and use. Establishing the low-grade telepathy link requires exposed skin for the Luku Plika to penetrate and syphon blood from and about 15 minutes to prepare the link. Effectively, its not gonna be an isntant thing in the combat situation.

DESCRIPTION
While ships, speeders, and land warfare is fantastic, there has been a tragic lack of development with Vong made personal weapons. At RMIA we love the Amphistaff as much as the next guy but we also love something even more--being able to make cool weapons that change the playing field.

The Sparkbee is great, fantastic really in the way it works, giving us great things like the blast bug. So the Shaper experts working for RMIA went to work on making it do something even better. Using it starts before combat even begins.

The Luku Plika works off of low grade telepathy. It acquires a very basic form of it by drinking a small amount of the users blood (like a mosquito). It hurts a little, but its nothing lethal. Once this telepathic link is established, the Luku Plika goes dormant until it either siphons off someone else's blood or until it is sent on its path.

As a tiny little thing, the Luku Plika will fit in your ammo pouch and is about the size of a magazine or grenade. It doesn't really offer any trouble until you take it out and are ready to use it. All the user has to do is send a visual image of the target and its round about location to the Luku Plika and the bug will take off with missile like speeds, home in on it, and blast. The explosion is fairly sizable, temperatures reach 2750 degrees Fahrenheit (1370 C), in a 1 meter radius, and an understandable concussive wave follows strong enough to knock most beings off their feet and a boom that is pretty loud too and rather disorienting. The heat radiates out from that explosion of course, getting cooler. So, even if someone is able to avoid the direct blast or heat, they still have the concussion wave to deal with, which can turn your insides into jello pudding (metaphorically of course).

The bad thing is, the Luku Plika has a limited range, so it can't just go off searching a field for whoever you want to blow up, its a line of sight type weapon (sorry for all you blind folks) and the visual has to be pretty strong--strong enough to where you've seen the individual within the past 3 seconds or know them really really well, other wise the psychic impression won't be strong enough. Also, this thing is a bug, so high winds can knock it about and affect its flight pattern.

All in all, its just a unique sort of living weapon for soldiers to bring to the game field to shake things up.