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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: Create a conceptual ammunition technology designed and manufactured by the Grutter Norr Ryk's State Defence Industries for use in modern ranged firearms, like all things involving the Norr and weapons trying to harken to their central themes of: Ferocity, Discipline and Brutality.
- Image Source: Source.
- Canon Link: N/A.
- Permissions: N/A.
- Primary Source: mono-molecular edge, railgun, verpine shatter gun, quarrel.
- Designed: 874-877 ABY.
- Manufactued: 884 ABY-Onwards.
- Manufacturer: State Defence Industries.
- Affiliation:
- Grutter Norr Ryk.
- Citizens.
- Grutter Norr Ryk.
- Market Status: Closed-Market.
- Model: Punt Munysje (Norr: Pointed Ammunition).
- Modularity: Yes (Ammunition caliber can vary from ultra-low to cannon-sized according to weapon system).
- Production: Semi-Unique.
- Material: Duranium, Titanium, Tungsten.
- Classification: Ammunition Technology.
- Ammunition type: Titanium spike with mono-molecular depleted duranium penetrator.
- Weight: Varies according to dimensions of the ammunition.
- Mono-molecular depleted duranium penetrator.
- Titanium projectile.
- Atmospheric superheating: When used in your typical atmosphere, the resistance against the projectile as it moves through the air at high velocities causes the titanium and tungsten to superheat to about eight-hundred degrees Celsius in a standard atmosphere; this has significant implications for injuries caused by the projectile. Near-hits can raise the internal temperature of full body armour to dangerous levels and cause third-degree burns to exposed skin.
- Impalement injuries: Due to the nature of the projectiles, they can be subject to size, causing impaling injuries, which typically require intense and labour-intensive surgery to remove the fixed object, which would be the weapon's ammunition. These injuries in a medical context can usually only be treated in a hospital setting. The bullet is much like its' designers, ferocious.
- Lightsabres: With significant kinetic energy behind the projectiles, attempts to block the path of the high-velocity shots, even if successful, would generally transfer their kinetic energy onto the magnetic field of the weapon and the grip, almost certainly sending it flying from the wielder grip if it also didn't inflict injury to the wielders themselves.
- Mono-molecular penetrator: The ammunition is a quarrel shaped like a spike with a titanium body and a depleted duranium penetrator. The titanium body has a mono-molecular penetrator at the projectile's tip; the ammunition can punch through even the densest armour, with a few notable exceptions, such as Mandalorian Iron.
- Contrails: When fired in the atmosphere, as the heated projectiles pass through the several hundred-degree colder atmosphere around them, they generate distinctive steamy contrails in their wake, which invariably lead back to the shooter's position. This creates a hazard for concealed shooters such as marksmen or snipers; additionally, it readily identifies the location of defensive positions.
- Decibel Level: Due to its' kinetic nature and the incredible velocities the ammunition achieves, the sound of them being discharged from a weapon system is significantly louder when compared to its' directed energy weapon peers. Unprotected exposure to the sound of the ammunition moving through the air results in the acute and transient onset of Tinnitus in most humanoids, with repeated or protracted exposure resulting in hearing damage.
- Deflection: Despite high velocities due to the shape of the projectiles, there is an elevated risk when compared to directed energy weapons that the ammunition at extraordinarily steep impact angles, typically less than seven degrees that the shot will be deflected away from the surface; this will normally be observed more in low-calibre low-mass ammunition.
- Feed systems: Weapons using this ammunition technology require a feed system to get the ammunition from its' storage container to the magnetic accelerators inside the weapon. Feed systems are imperfect and can break, and magazines in personal firearms lose spring tension over time, especially when under load for long periods.
- Gravity: Unlike directed energy weapon projectiles with little atomic mass, these solid projectiles have a relatively high mass, which translates to high weight in an atmospheric setting; they are significantly more affected by phenomena like the Coriolis effect and the effects of gravity, especially at long range.
- Mass: Ballistic ammunition in the contemporary context is inferior to directed energy cartridges for a critical reason: solids have more mass than gasses. Additionally, physical projectiles take up greater storage volume at the personal level and in vehicles. As a result, soldiers equipped with weapons using this ammunition will typically be left carrying smaller quantities of ammunition than a contemporary opponent utilising standard energy weapons.
- Personal deflector shields: Generally speaking, personal deflector shields are an efficient means of defeating the ammunition technology as they hinder the projectile and its' kinetic energy before striking the target.
- Recoil: For ammunition of this nature, significantly scaled up, there needs to be consideration given to recoil management, inertial dampeners, and other recoil mitigation technology that can alleviate some of these issues, but it will generally translate into larger design sizes.
The pointed ammunition is a projectile technology pioneered by the Grutter Norr Ryk's State Defence Industries, who issued a requirement to the organisation in 874 ABY to produce an ammunition type that could be used in Infantry firearms, have better performance at penetrating the modern armour systems on the modern battlefield than standard directed energy weapons and then deliver sufficient kinetic energy onto any known humanoid target and liquidate it. State Defence Industries tested various designs over a decade and tendered three. The winner was an inert projectile 255 grain 15 gram 4.5x152mm Titanium spike with a depleted duranium penetrator featuring a point forged into a mono-molecular edge. , When fired from the magnetically-accelerated test platform, the projectile reached the supersonic velocity of 1650 metres per second. The shot penetrated 8mm of high-quality armour plate at a range of about 250 metres and put down about 20,000 joules of kinetic energy into the target State Defence Industries' 'Pointed Ammunition' won the tender, and a variety of ammunition types and weapons chambered in it have been ordered ever since. Due to their high velocity, and superheat in the atmosphere, the projectiles leave visible contrails in their wake from the air where they have superheated. Due to their length, the rifle appears to be throwing 'spears' at the enemy. Weapons that use these projectiles have been aptly named 'Norr spear guns' or 'Norr needle guns'; among the holonet military blogger community, they are infamous for the ghastly injuries they inflict. It is worth noting that when Depleted Duranium is unavailable due to material shortages, the same penetrator gets made from Tungsten.
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