Sterling Kinslayer
Slayer of False Gods
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To Codify Sterling's primary defensive emplacements
- Image Source: Here
- Canon Link: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
- Manufacturer: Sterling Kinslayer
- Affiliation: Sterling Kinslayer
- Model: N/A
- Modularity: No
Production: Limited
- Material: Duraplast, Durasteel, Electronics, Physical attachment device, mag clamp, Blaster components
- Classification: Blaster Miniaturized Turret
- Size: Small
- Weight: Average
- Ammunition Type: Power cell, gas canister
- Ammunition Capacity: 50 shot cells, 200 shot canister
Reload Speed: Very Slow
- Effective Range: Personal
- Rate of Fire: High
- Stopping Power: Average
- Recoil: Average
- Multiple Attachment points
- Remotely controlled
- Compactability
- Remote Control: The turrets can be set to follow lists of commands such as passive mode vs aggressive modes from afar.
- Compactability: By design, these devices can be compacted to be transported easier, making them transportable in small groups by even one individual.
- Wide View: The turret can turn in a relatively wide 'cone' from 45* left and right, almost able to aim completely up and down.
- Pick your place: Can use physical means or magnetic means to 'stick' to walls.
- The back: Get behind the turret... it's pretty useless. Don't even have to get around, it can't even aim all the way left or right.
- Slow Reload: The turrets must be manually reloaded, which can be a problem in extended firefights. The time it takes to reload even with extensive knowledge of the device is remarkably long due to the device requiring to be fully compacted before it can be reloaded.
- Still pretty bulky: Even an exceptional individual with plenty of space would find it nigh impossible to carry more than three or four of these at once. Even then they are produced at a low, low rate.
As a living fortress, Sterling could not be left on his complete lonesome to handle every situation thrown at him. He had to be able to supply his own backup so to speak, and a limited line of production was made for compact-able miniature turrets. These were relatively small, not terribly bigger in size than a disassembled blaster pistol, and spare parts. A few moving pieces that snap together nicely and folding legs, but the device could be carried with relative ease. Naturally this made the turret about equivilant of a blaster pistol, and justified to his sensibilities why it would be allowed. No different from a shotgun really. The flaw came in making them compact and useful. While it wasn't a problem really to make them useful in aim, there was a minimum size, still too compact to use extensively. Combo with the required manual reloading and honestly a pistol would be more useful in anything more than an ambush.
Still, as an ambush device, Sterling's turrets were excellent in small numbers.. especially if a six foot angry man was also charging.
