Stopping Power (Past Thread / Development Thread) *Completed*

[Kista Bralor]

[SIZE=18pt]Stopping Power (Past Thread / Development Thread)[/SIZE]​

Location: Kista’s Home /Her father’s laboratory​

Time Line: Kista age 14​

Development: Research for a Mandalorian ripper pistol, five slotted cylinder, with 50 caliber rounds. ​

Post Count: 1​

The sounds of slender fingers littlie tap away at keys on a keyboard.​

[Impute User Name] Kista Bralor​

[Enter Password] Hardluck​

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“Let’s see what we can find”, Kista now logged in started to look through her dad’s data base. She had a general idea of what she wanted. “What to do”, she slowly clicked through different categories. At the screen there were several choices. “Capital ships”, her eye brows perked up. “Interesting, but no”, her eyes scrolled down the list to the next category. “Assault Walkers”, she shook her head, “nope, that is not it!”

“Armors”, her eyes gleaming with excitement on that one, “You I shall look at later!”

There were several other categories after the one she was look at right now. The one she was look at right now,”There you are!” “Firearms”, she said while nearly bouncing out of her seat!


Clicking the option of firearms, more options came up. The first two categories were on the obvious, pistols and then rifles. “Yes” Ksita said with, or more like sang. It was in a lovely tune of glee. “Pistols”, she sang out the next word too!


“Kista what are you doing”, Kista’s dad had stopped banging on the forge.


“Just study pistols on your computer”, she yelled out so her dad could hear her.


“That is terrific sweetie but could you go over and check the temp regulator. I don’t think the actuator is revolving”, he dad asked. He would have himself if he could walk away from the forge. Timing and heat was critical. One false move and he could create a flaw that would weaken the piece he was forging.


“Ok daddy”, Kista got up from her seat and then looked back over at the computer. “Don’t go anywhere”, she pointed at the computer being a bit silly. The she got up to go help out her dad.

 

[Kista Bralor]

[SIZE=18pt]Stopping Power (Past Thread / Development Thread)[/SIZE]​

Location: Kista’s Home /Her father’s laboratory​

Time Line: Kista age 14​

Development: Research for a Mandalorian ripper pistol, five slotted cylinder, with 50 caliber rounds. ​

Post Count: 2​

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Skipping back over to the computer Kista stopped at her chair. Placing her hands on the back of the computer, she leaned over. “Did you miss me”, she winked at the computer. The computer was still on and she still had to choice what type of firearm category to pick. First category was rifles. The second one was pistols. The rest did not matter because Kista sat down and clicked the choice of pistols.

More options in the form of more categories came up. There were energy weapons. Several other categories and there was slug throwers. Kista got a wicked smile. “Slug throwers”, she said while clicking that option. She always had a thing for energy propelled metal objects flying through the air at a target. Was it the loud bang it made? Or was it the heavy impact a beskar round into a target.


Many more options came up. There was a ton of Mandalorian ripper designs. There were many more designs from other worlds. There were very many different types of calibers to choose from.

Then Kista heard the home holo-com-system beep. Someone was trying to call? “I got it”, Kista got up from the computer again. She knew her dad was still in the process of making a shoulder piece for a suit of armor.

 

[Kista Bralor]

[SIZE=18pt]Stopping Power (Past Thread / Development Thread)[/SIZE]​

Location: Kista’s Home /Her father’s laboratory​

Time Line: Kista age 14​

Development: Research for a Mandalorian ripper pistol, five slotted cylinder, with 50 caliber rounds.​

Post Count: 3​

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Back at the computer again Kista was back trying to compile data. The first thing to do was chose a type of caliber. She looked over several options. Kista look her guns to go boom. Well most of the time. She did like silencers but for this gun. Well she was randomly coming up with an idea. “That’s it”, she clicked on a choice. The option she chose was 50 caliber designs. Thing was, this was just the initial research stage. She obviously did not have the strength to fire a weapon like this, yet.

“Kista”, her dad called her again.​

“Coming dad”, Kista got up and went to go see what her dead needed. ​

 

[Kista Bralor]

[SIZE=18pt]Stopping Power (Past Thread / Development Thread)[/SIZE]​

Location: Kista’s Home /Her father’s laboratory​

Time Line: Kista age 14​

Development: Research for a Mandalorian ripper pistol, five slotted cylinder, with 50 caliber rounds.​

Post Count: 4​

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Again there were options. There was not just one design of a 50 calabier slug thrower. There was Mandalorian designs and non Mandalorian designs. There was just too much information to compile in a short amount of time. There was one category here she seen she could choose from. It was a program where it compiled the data to give performance data and tell you the pros and cons of each weapon. So if you typed in you wished to find a pistol that had a fast trigger play it would show you a list of pistol to choose from.

“Ok”, Kista thought about it for a moment. “What do you want Kista”, she asked herself. “Let’s see about stopping power and fast triggers”, she started to type in the words.

“Kista”, he dad called her again.​

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“Yes daddy”, she called back.​

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“I need your help again”, he asked for her help again.​

 

[Kista Bralor]

[SIZE=18pt]Stopping Power (Past Thread / Development Thread)[/SIZE]​

Location: Kista’s Home /Her father’s laboratory​

Time Line: Kista age 14​

Development: Research for a Mandalorian ripper pistol, five slotted cylinder, with 50 caliber rounds.​

Post Count: 5​

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Back at the computer again, Kista was looking over the new complied data. Still there was a lot of information. She had to narrow the options down again. “How am I going to do that”, frustrated she sat backwards into the chair. After staring at the computer for a few minutes, Kista sat forward again.

“Maybe that is the answer”, the screen changed as it flipped a new program bar up. She still had the pistol information up on one bar and now she could start another function and the second. Kista began typing. Her fingers danced over the keys in a rapid motion. She was essentially writing a whole new computer program. A program that could gather the data, bust it down to an easier way to find the information she needed.

“This could take a while”, she continued keep on typing.

 

[Kista Bralor]

[SIZE=18pt]Stopping Power (Past Thread / Development Thread)[/SIZE]​

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Location: Kista’s Home /Her father’s laboratory​

Time Line: Kista age 14​

Development: Research for a Mandalorian ripper pistol, five slotted cylinder, with 50 caliber rounds.​

Post Count: 6​

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A couple hours later…​

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“Gawed this is taking like forever”, her voiced sounded fatigued. She felt that fatigue through her whole body. Sitting in one location for hours was just not good for anyone. The computer was rung numbers and downloading a few things anyways at the moment. She did not need to sit at the computer for the moment. So Kista got up out of her chair and left the room.

Well she partially left the room. The libratory slash forge was more like a converted warehouse. It was mainly a large open area with sections dedicated to curtain tasks. Kista just left one section and went into another. This new area she had went into double as a kitchen and a break room. Over on the counter of the kitchen section was a large chromed pot. It was actually an industrial stimcafe pot used to brew large quantities of stimcafe.

Yawning she stretched and slipped her cup under the tap for the stimcafe. With an apathetical motion with her other hand she went to press the release button. Nothing came out. “What the feeth”, she whispered. She whispered it because if she just blurted it out her dad would hear. If he heard her swear again she would have to put more of her allowance into the swear jar. That would mean less of her credits in her pocket.

She looked over at her dad. Nope he did not hear her. She did not only look over there because she was worried he might have heard her cursing. She looked over there with a sneer because it was apparently her father was the culprit. He took the last cup and did not make a new pot. Her shoulders relaxed though and she took a deep breath. Her dad was working hard to make another clan member a new suit of armor. Her dad was a buddy man being a master smith. He was a good man and an Alor’ad in Clan Bralor. So he took the last cup and did not realize it. It was a forgivable crime.

 

[Kista Bralor]

[SIZE=18pt]Stopping Power (Past Thread / Development Thread)[/SIZE]​

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Location: Kista’s Home /Her father’s laboratory​

Time Line: Kista age 14​

Development: Research for a Mandalorian ripper pistol, five slotted cylinder, with 50 caliber rounds.​

Post Count: 7​

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Stimcafe in one hand and a bowl of pretzels in the other Kista made her way back over to the computer. The down was complete and so was the number crunching her computer was doing. Her new program was complete.

Now in her seat again, her fingers went typing mad again! She was back to her research. The new program was in a questioner type format. You answered a bunch of questions to narrow down your search to fine exactly what you’re looking for or a group of stuff you would be looking for. This program was compatible with all of the blue prints on the Bralor data base on crafting.

Theoretically this should give her maybe ten items to look over instead of a couple hundred. Ok a couple hundred was exaggeration. She is fourteen and a young lady. They tend to over exaggerate problems. Yes she was being a little dramatic about the issue. However because of this she had developed a useful program her clan could use in the future. Take the positive with the negatives, right?

 

[Kista Bralor]

[SIZE=18pt]Stopping Power (Past Thread / Development Thread)[/SIZE]​

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Location: Kista’s Home /Her father’s laboratory​

Time Line: Kista age 14​

Development: Research for a Mandalorian ripper pistol, five slotted cylinder, with 50 caliber rounds.​

Post Count: 8​

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“OK, now that is operational. Let find us some base designs”, slender fingers started typing rapidly again. Her seed and coordination were abnormal for a human. Technically I suppose you could call her a near human. Her mother was less than human and at one time considered a Vong. Kista’s mother was captured and had under gone alterations. Not all of the alterations could be removed safely. These alterations had added complications to the pregnancy and Kista’s mother dying in child birth. It was something The Vong could have prevented with their technology but one th Mando’ade did not have the knowledge to prevent.

So Kista’s bone structure was different then the average human female. It was smaller and a little more fragile. It was a limitation she would have to deal with the rest of her life. It was something she would always have to be aware of. There was even a possibility if she was to ever become pregnant she too could have complications.

The physical benefits she gained? She gained heightened speed and agility. She also had a heightened mental computing ability to adapt coordination skills in a fluid rapid quick pace. It allowed her a shorter time span to take a weapon, aim it, fire it and make decent shots.

Things she typed in to narrow the search….​

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Firearms…​

Pistols…​

Mandalorian Rippers…​

50 caliber rounds​

Cylinder chambers​

Deathwalker hammer and firing pin…​

Hairline triggers…​

Her physical limitations and strengths…​

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Nine total blue prints came up on the screen. Some were similar but some were designed with some odd futures. There was also some holo videos and weapon performances. There was more. Each blue print came with performance stats. Now she had some information to review!

 

[Kista Bralor]

[SIZE=18pt]Stopping Power (Past Thread / Development Thread)[/SIZE]​

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Location: Kista’s Home /Her father’s laboratory​

Time Line: Kista age 14​

Development: Research for a Mandalorian ripper pistol, five slotted cylinder, with 50 caliber rounds.​

Post Count: 9​

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The very first thing she looked at was next to the title of each blue print. Next to each title had a color coated risk factor of breaking bones in the wrist due to kick back? All of them had risk. Some were a high risk factor, some were medium, and there was a couple that had a low risk factor. With her bones this would be an issue. That is unless she can find a way to reduce the kickback of the weapon. She might have to go with a low risk blue print.

The Vong use anti-gravity technology but they use bio tech. Though that does not mean she could not use the science behind the application and design new tech off of Vong knowledge about gravity. She might have to go with the low risk.

Kista pulled up what were the common stats for all of these pistols with the low risk. 350 grain bullet that could propel a bullet almost 2,000 feet per second. The muzzle energy produced was over 3,000 pounds of force. That would be over 13. Newtons per second. That would be a lot of force to be putting on Kista’s wrist.

Thinking more about it, she knew maybe at the most she would only be able to fire this pistol a couple time in a short breath of time. If she did not, it would put too much stress on the wrist bones. That would be a huge issue. Having a broken bone after fire a huge pistol like this would suck!

 

[Kista Bralor]

[SIZE=18pt]Stopping Power (Past Thread / Development Thread)[/SIZE]​

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Location: Kista’s Home /Her father’s laboratory​

Time Line: Kista age 14​

Development: Research for a Mandalorian ripper pistol, five slotted cylinder, with 50 caliber rounds.​

Post Count: 10​

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“Well, let’s watch a holovid”, Kista clicked on the first video. The first holovid start with some dramatic music and a logo. Then the scene changed very sudden and made Kista jump back. It went from logo to a man standing really close to a camera. We’re talking an up close shot of a man’s face. This man, he looked like a complete lunatic. Ok it was not just a scene change of a man’s face. The man yelled hello in a super high screechy voice. It scared the chit right out of her. Not literally because that would have been gross and awkward!

Then the camera adjusted panning backwards. Kista could now see what this man was wearing. Combat boots, camouflage pants, and a black wife beater t-shirt. The man was missing many front teeth and he had a military hair cut. It was such a freaky screen Kista did not know if she turn it off. She was a bit captivated wondering what this freak show was about to do. Was he going to shot someone?

She kept watching. The man must have had a really low education. Kista was having difficulties understand the man’s strange accent. Still this man he had a big pistol. It was a revolver and it was a 50 caliber. He was talking and standing in front of a firing rage outdoors. There was beer bottle. Metal targets. There were also large melons out there.

“Please just stop talking and shot something already”, Kista rolled her eyes at the man.​

Then he pointed the pistol.​

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[SIZE=18pt]Boooom![/SIZE]​

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Kista jumped again!​

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Kista’s eyes enlarge and she smirked. The man had fire the pistol. It hit one of the melons. It just exploded when it got hit. Ok it seemed like it almost disintegrated. Many, many pieces of melon went everywhere. It was, Kista was so excited. So excited she wanted to watch another holovid!

 

[Kista Bralor]

[SIZE=18pt]Stopping Power (Past Thread / Development Thread)[/SIZE]​

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Location: Kista’s Home /Her father’s laboratory​

Time Line: Kista age 14​

Development: Research for a Mandalorian ripper pistol, five slotted cylinder, with 50 caliber rounds.​

Post Count: 11​

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Then the man pointed the gun at a piece of metal plating. Well the man claimed it was a piece of derasteal platting. The man fired the pistol again. The man missed the target. She was not surprised as she believed the man was drinking prior to starting to film this.

Then the man lined up another shot. He fired and this time he hit the target. Without the man going over and picking up the target she could see there was a hole clean through the metal target. This, this was awe-inspiring.

Kista wanted one but she would have some tinkering to do. She would have to find a way to reduce the kickback. Could she only find a way to do this without losing the stopping power?

 

[Kista Bralor]

[SIZE=18pt]Stopping Power (Past Thread / Development Thread)[/SIZE]​

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Location: Kista’s Home /Her father’s laboratory​

Time Line: Kista age 14​

Development: Research for a Mandalorian ripper pistol, five slotted cylinder, with 50 caliber rounds.​

Post Count: 12​

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“There is just no way”, Kista sat back in her chair. “You just do not know enough about that tech”, she said while throwing her hands up in the air.
“Ok, relax”, giving herself a peep talk she was going to think this through. “You may not be able to use a hand gun like this now but in the future you could”, she began typing again trying to get projected numbers on how her bones would be able to handle the kick back in a few years from now. She just had to wait tell the computer to finishes calculating it.

 

[Kista Bralor]

[SIZE=18pt]Stopping Power (Past Thread / Development Thread)[/SIZE]​

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Location: Kista’s Home /Her father’s laboratory​

Time Line: Kista age 14​

Development: Research for a Mandalorian ripper pistol, five slotted cylinder, with 50 caliber rounds.​

Post Count: 13​

The computer was still trying to calculate the new data. Kista, she got up from her chair. She paced back and forth a few times, and then walked over to the break room. She wanted this pistol. The question remained how she was going to do this. It was a powerful hand slug thrower. It could potently do a lot of damage anything it hits. The suckie thing right now the kick back could potently do damage to her wrist. Standing at the counter she tapped her fingers upon the counter over and over again. “Come on Kista”, she said hoping to think of something.

Right now she had nothing. She had to find something. Maybe design a new firing pin? How would a new firing pin reduce the kick back? The kick back comes from the release of the raw power of the blast!

 

[Kista Bralor]

[SIZE=18pt]Stopping Power (Past Thread / Development Thread)[/SIZE]​

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Location: Kista’s Home /Her father’s laboratory​

Time Line: Kista age 14​

Development: Research for a Mandalorian ripper pistol, five slotted cylinder, with 50 caliber rounds.​

Post Count: 14​

“That is it Kista”, she simply shook with excitement. “You’re not the first who wish to find a way around recoil”, she started pacing back and forth again. This time she was talking out loud to herself.

“Large gun use a hydralulic recoil mechanism. There are some smaller arms that use this but normally they’re simi-automatic weapons. That was out of the question. There was another method, muzzle breaks. If I just made slots at the tip of the barrel then I could reduce some of the recoil. Done deal”, Kista started to walk back over to her computer desk.

 

[Kista Bralor]

[SIZE=18pt]Stopping Power (Past Thread / Development Thread)[/SIZE]​

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Location: Kista’s Home /Her father’s laboratory​

Time Line: Kista age 14​

Development: Research for a Mandalorian ripper pistol, five slotted cylinder, with 50 caliber rounds.​

Post Count: 15​

Over at the desk Kista pulled out some paper and a pencil. It was a very archaic method but Kista liked it. She also had a bit of an amateur skill in drawing. Sitting down she started to draw a line. Then another and then intersected them. The drawing slowly began to take form. It was the tip of a barrel of a pistol. At the tip were several slots were on each side. An idea was forming. The muzzle breaks will discharge some energy after the blast reducing the recoil. It was perfect!

 

[Kista Bralor]

[SIZE=18pt]Stopping Power (Past Thread / Development Thread)[/SIZE]​

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Location: Kista’s Home /Her father’s laboratory​

Time Line: Kista age 14​

Development: Research for a Mandalorian ripper pistol, five slotted cylinder, with 50 caliber rounds.​

Post Count: 16​

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Kista looked at the next step, the hammer of the pistol. Essentially the hammer strikes the charge and it goes kaboom. Sounds pretty simple, right? There were technical aspects to this but yes it was pretty straight forward. A hammer for a small caliber would not due. If there was not enough starting kinetic force there would not be any continuing discharge of energy. Really what she was looking was cosmetics and a scary sounding name. “Here is one”, she said finding a design on the computer. “The Hammer of the Gods”, she said and marked the design in faves!

 

[Kista Bralor]

[SIZE=18pt]Stopping Power (Past Thread / Development Thread)[/SIZE]​

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Location: Kista’s Home /Her father’s laboratory​

Time Line: Kista age 14​

Development: Research for a Mandalorian ripper pistol, five slotted cylinder, with 50 caliber rounds.​

Post Count: 17​

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“let’s see what other basics we will need”, Kista looked over the data. She needed a trigger design out of the options given. All of them were a double-action design. Basically it needed to cock the hammer before the pistol could fire. There were several options. One included a simpering system that did not need to use much strength to cock then lock the hammer. It was a more expensive option but one she would need.

 

[Kista Bralor]

[SIZE=18pt]Stopping Power (Past Thread / Development Thread)[/SIZE]​

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Location: Kista’s Home /Her father’s laboratory​

Time Line: Kista age 14​

Development: Research for a Mandalorian ripper pistol, five slotted cylinder, with 50 caliber rounds.​

Post Count: 18​

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Bopping through info Kista was looking around for accessories. A scope, no she did not want one.It takes time to bring the scope up to your eyes and then peer done the scope. Other words it takes too much time. Kista kept looking. Laser sights, ”Yep!” There were a number of designs but one caught her eye. One that you can link to a hud. It had potential and pretty straight forward. Through the hud you could turn the laser on or off. Or link the laser sight through a targeting system in the hud to increase accuracy. She placed that one on faves to.

 

[Kista Bralor]

[SIZE=18pt]Stopping Power (Past Thread / Development Thread)[/SIZE]​

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Location: Kista’s Home /Her father’s laboratory​

Time Line: Kista age 14​

Development: Research for a Mandalorian ripper pistol, five slotted cylinder, with 50 caliber rounds.​

Post Count: 19​

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“Ok let’s review your information Kista”, slinder fingers danced over the key board again. “We have a 50 caliber pistol with a cylinder core. In the cylinder there are only five chambers you can stick slugs in. Right now the ammunition is irrelevant. To reduce kickback, or what is called recoil there will be muzzle breaks. Everything else is pretty much standard with an exception of a laser sight that can be linked to a standard hud found in a helm. There will still be kickback but not so high that I will not be able to use it. Then the major drawback would be this gun only holds five slugs at a time. This is when mostly everyone I will be in a gun fight with will be using weapons that will have hundreds of shots before they will have to reload. Those two things are some pretty big draw backs. If I fire this weapon right after the second shot I risk breaking my wrist.”

 

[Kista Bralor]

[SIZE=18pt]Stopping Power (Past Thread / Development Thread)[/SIZE]​

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Location: Kista’s Home /Her father’s laboratory​

Time Line: Kista age 14​

Development: Research for a Mandalorian ripper pistol, five slotted cylinder, with 50 caliber rounds.​

Post Count: 20​

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Kista’s eye brow perked up. Leaning forward she tapped the computer screen lightly. “What the kark”, she whispered hoping her dad did not hear that. The bar that was making calculations had stopped at 67%. She tapped the screen again to hoping that the numbers would start to move again. It was a ridiculous hope that a simple tap of the screen would do it, but she did do it.

It did not move. She was unsure about this but she flipped up that bar and took a look. The read out data was looking good. Estimations on reducing the recoil were good. There was an unknown factor though. The thing is when recoil happens the kinetic energy flows through your body and into the ground. There were a few factors to compute this. The person’s size and body mass comes into play. The larger you are and the more weight you have helps when absorbing the impact. The other factor was harder for a computer to calculate because it was body movement. The way you move when you fire a pistol help with the recoil. The last factor would be tech on the pistol.

In the case of a large caliber pistol Kista was worried that the flow of kinetic energy through her wrist would crack or brake bone. Now where the computer was having trouble calculating was Kista’s movement factor. There just was no data to correlate in this instance. Her movements are considered irregular for the data to be compiled. The irregularity was it only had the average movements of what a standard human would have. The truth was she was not standard. Because of genetic memory she inherited some bio technology from her mother. Something Kista did not talk with just anyone. At one point, when the One Sith took Alderaan and started to defile Alderaan with Vong tech. Kista’s mother was one of the Alderaains who was captured and altered. Her mother could not get the entire tech applications removed. She also did not know it would bring complications to a pregnancy. It resulted with her mother’s death at child birth and with Kista having a bone deformity. It also gave Kista her heightened agility and her reactionary timing. The computer was having trouble calculating Vong tech, “There was one way to solve this!”