Did Someone Order a War?
Press play and watch the fireworks
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: Pop up heat-seeking rocket turret. Designed for droids, vehicles, starfighters, drones, corvettes, indoor rooms, small firing platforms, or smaller structures.
- Image Source: Here
- Canon Link: Dual Turret | MMLT | Autoturret
- Permissions: FFE is owned by my characters.
- Primary Source: None
- Manufacturer: Fire For Effect
- Affiliation: Fire for Effect, Closed Market
- Model: TRD-1, Twin Rocket Deathsticks
- Modularity: Ammunition Type
- Production: Minor
- Material: Durasteel Armor and Structure | Turadium Frame | Detonite Explosive
- Classification: Turret Rocket Battery
- Size: Average
- Weight: Average
- Ammunition Type: Rocket, Explosive
- Ammunition Capacity: Average
- Effective Range: Long Range
- Rate of Fire: Average
- Stopping Power: High
- Recoil: High
- Fire and Forget Heat-seeking or dumbfire rocket battery.
- Hidden turret. The weapon folds into walls, speeder roofs, and the back of droids for example. Able to automatically fire on hostiles or trespassers if programmed to.
- A fairly good range for a turret of its class. It would be ideal to hit fleeing speeders, approaching jump troopers mid-air or close formation infantry squads at a distance for example.
- Hidden and automated. The weapon can easily fold into place and await trespassers. If programmed to the weapon will pop up, target, and automatically fire until it is out of ammunition.
- Excellent area denial weapon. For a limited time, the weapon can make sure a corridor or doorway isn't accessed or failing that bring the area crashing down. Better yet it can defend positions from a distance making it hard to stop.
- Vulnerable to heat countermeasures seeking to mask signals. Dumbfire mode can be engaged but then this makes it a fire and pray weapon.
- Not useful in a group of vehicles or heat signatures, the weapon will lock to warm targets you don't want it to. You can mitigate this by directing it obviously but your target can use other vehicles or heat sources as cover after firing.
- The ammunition doesn't discriminate. Once fired, and often fired on mass, it will make a mess of anything near its target, friend or foe. Not to be used in civilian crowds, unless you really are not a people person.
Sometimes you just want a gun you can set to fire and forget, while you do things like drive, kick someone off your speeder, or take a relaxing cigarette. This is a simple weapon that anyone can use, and its damned good at is job. Its job being to make a very loud noise and create a series of explosions.
While the TRD-1, Twin Rocket Deathsticks lacks any chickenfoolery or the marketing gimmicks of the TBD-1 minigun, they are intended for an audience who wants a reliable and often covert weapon that packs a punch. Great for defense outside your home, eliminating threats before they even get a good look at the place. The TRD-1 is also a first-rate weapon for personal speeders or smaller ships like corvettes, surprising their opponents out of unlikely areas of the ship, structure or vehicle the TRD-1 can catch them off-guard.
Honestly given the nature of this gun, most of those weapon techs at FFE weren't that interested. Its just a reliable weapon that makes a boom. Sure it stays hidden but other than that, its not very high tech or special. Which incidentally the company has been told some people prefer. When visible the turret is simple, grey, and has two linked rocket batteries either side of the main supporting structure. A reasonable turn rate gives it a reliable 360 degrees of fire on most targets.
One weapon tech was overheard to comment, yeah but who wants to just blow people up. Well, apparently sales are looking quite good, especially among those with a view to home defense and explosive remodeling of their neighbor's apartments. Whether it's home security, demolition or party surprises on the move you are looking for, the TRD-1 doesn't disappoint.
