Tactical Cutter

[Bloodknight]

Intent: To create a cutting device easily accessible on the field
Development Thread: None
Manufacturer: Abrogation Inc.
Model: X-1
Affiliation: Independent
Modularity: None
Production: Limited
Material: Durasteel, power pack
Description: A foot long hunk of durasteel that looks a lot like a black, featureless lightsaber handle, this is a fusion cutter like no other. The tactical cutter was made for Xanthanatos for use when something needs to be cut, but placing a weapon down in order to draw a fusion cutter or lightsaber would just be plain impractical. As such, this device is made as an attachment to firearms sized carbine and up. When the button on the device is pressed and held, a blade of bright yellow plasma will erupt from the emitter and Pierce through just about anything within a foot and a half in front of it.

It's short range ensures enemies would have to be up close and personal (and less-than-sentient enough to stand right in front of a blaster), making it less of an effective anti-personnel device. It's high intensity would make it extremely dangerous to use as a backscratcher, toilet paper, nose hair trimmer, toothpick or for shaving, cutting hair or dicing onions

Classification: Fusion Cutter
Size: Handheld/Underbarrel attachment
Length: 1 ft
Weight: .5 kg
Other Features: Great birthday candle

 

[Popo]

@[member="Xanthanatos"]
Alright, I hate to say it, but I'm going to have to deny this. Here's why:

First off, what you've essentially done is made a mass produced (Minor production is still kind of mass produced, just not on the same scale), short bladed (shoto) lightsaber bayonet attachment. Lightsabers can only be made by Force users so even limited production is sketchy with a lightsaber type blade, simply because most 'saber type weapons are made specifically by the user, for the user.

Second off, this weapon is impractical for the intent you've listed. I've used bayonets in the field and it is literally hard as hell to cut anything with a bayonet attached to the rifle short of, maybe, a cloth or canvas tent side. It's far more practical to take a second or two and reach for the sharp combat knife on your webgear or, in SW, your lightsaber. Also, your intent doesn't match your description at all except to describe, in attempted humor, what it does not do.

Essentially, you've made something that could easily be abused and we can't have entire regiments or even squads of soldiers running around with lightsabers attached to their weapons as bayonets. Also, it looks more like a PvP tool than an actual utility tool, which contradicts what is possibly one of the most important parts of a submission: the intent.

Second chance this if you'd like, but if you're just looking for a PvP weapon for yourself, you'll probably be better off subbing a bayonet lug attachment for your shoto lightsaber instead.

 

[Fabula Caromed]

Approved for second chance, with concessions noted in the second chance thread.

 

[Ashin Varanin]

@[member="Xanthanatos"] - Drop the production to Limited and I'll approve it on the understanding that if I ever see a full squad of troops using these, it'll be retroactively denied.

Also, please add a notation that this will not block lightsabres.

 

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