OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: A personal weapon for Avery Regailis.
- Image Source: Link
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
- Manufacturer: Avery Regailis in conjunction with an anonymous gunsmith.
- Affiliation: Avery Regailis.
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: N/A
- Modularity: N/A
- Production: Unique
- Material: Durasteel, Plasteel, Slugthrower Components, Wroshyr Wood.
- Classification: Slugthrower
- Size: Small
- Weight: Light
- Ammunition Type: Slugs
- Ammunition Capacity: Very Large
- Effective Range: Average
- Rate of Fire: Low
- Damage Output: Very High
- Recoil: High
- The barrel includes an attached cleaning rod for maintaining the weapon's ability to fire in the field.
- Close to the cleaning rod is a compartment for storing extra slugs.
- The weapon's primary strength is the stopping it holds in such a small size. While it can't make any ridiculously long shots, that doesn't bother its usage much. The closer a target is, the more brutal the expected outcome can be. When first fired, the shot is expected to have a velocity of a speeder at maximum. Another strength, which is often overlooked, is the weight of the weapon, which is useful in smashing windows, faces, etc.
- While the weapon doesn't have any limiting factors in itself to the rate of fire, the user should apply their own. If the user should become too trigger happy and begin firing without end, the camber shield, which just so happens to hold the slug, would fly off in direction of the user along with the slug itself. While this might sound bad, it is only a safety measure put in place to prevent the slug compartment from getting too hot and therefore, exploding, which could harm people in the vicinity.
The weapon itself shares many physical similarities with that of an officer's S-5 heavy blaster pistol and for good reason. During the first year of Avery's military service in the Corporate Protectorate, he would often outfit his men and himself with the S-5. He favored the S-5 for many reasons, primarily, for the nature of his missions. He would often lead excursions deep behind enemy territory. These missions almost mirrored his early assassin work, which he'd also used the aforementioned blaster in.
As time went on, it became increasingly prevalent that the S-5 was difficult to maintain in the middle of said excursions. They would jam, leaving people open to attack. One time, while a man nearly twice Avery's size was rushing him and he raised the blaster to fire, it simply didn't. That was the last straw.
Upon doing his research, Avery found that he liked the way slugthrowers appeared. They were reliable, easy to clean and maintain, plus you could craft your own ammunition for them, not having to rely on manufacturers. the only problem was the steep learning curve they presented and it was very obvious that he couldn't train an entire battalion let alone an army to use them. Still, that didn't stop him from outfitting his own personal militia with them.
When it came time to actually use the weapons, he still favored the S-5's design more than many common slug pistols. That problem was quickly dashed when he hired a gunsmith to create a slugthrower similar to the blaster, with him watching construction closely so it met his standards.
Of course, with time and war, Avery's assignments became progressively less sneaky and more shooty. It was almost sad to him, the S-5s and slugthrowers were quickly being phased out of the army and even his militia. It reminded him that he too was aging. He never got rid of the old pistol though, it was a reminder and a fond one at that (Plus it could still melt someone's face). One day, almost without anyone noticing, scratched into the barrel's side, was the word 'Vendur'. As to what it meant, no one knew and no one cared.
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