The Arch Wilder
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create for members and allies and customers of the VSF
- Image Source: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/nygEo
- Canon Link: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Turadium, http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Bowcaster/Legends, http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Quarrel/Legends
- Permissions: N/A
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- Manufacturer: Vitae Security Forces
- Affiliation: Vitae Security Forces, Veradune, and Allied Groups
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: VSF Fennec
- Modularity: Normal Pistol Modularity(small sights, lasers, etc.), stun clips available for less than lethal purposes
- Production: Mass-Produced.
- Material: Durasteel, Turadium barrel, Blaster pistol components
- Classification: Caster-Type Pistol
- Size: Average
- Weight: Average
- Ammunition Type: Powered-clip with 40-VSF Caliber Slugs///Gas Canisters when set to stun
- Ammunition Capacity: Small
- Lethal: 30 rounds (drum mag) | 15 rounds(straight mag)
- Stun: 50 rounds, Drum Mag | 25 rounds(Straight Mag)
- Effective Range: Average
- Rate of Fire: Average
- Damage Output: Very High
- Recoil: High
- Straight design allows for easy concealment along limbs
- Modular rails are easily added
- Stun rounds are available
- Rounds are charged by polarizing fields (much like a wookiee bowcaster)
- Superior Penetration and Stopping power due to combination of energy and physical projectiles
- Can still fire normal slugs if affected by an EMP
- Straight design allows for easy concealment along limbs
- Stun setting requires a different magazine
- If a stun clip is fired while the gun is set to lethal, there is a high chance of catastrophic failure
- Ammunition capacity is lower than most blasters
- If hit by an EMP blast, Stun rounds will not work, and normal rounds will not be energized
- While suppressors may be added, the weapon is naturally much louder than a blaster due to its explosive propulsion method.
- Recoil Is higher than most pistols of its size due to the explosive propulsion.
In creating a new weapon for the VSF troops, Vulpesen worked with scientists from EODD and took inspiration from the wookiee bowcaster to create a sidearm capable of shooting hybrid rounds. 40 VSF rounds are loaded with tibanna gas instead of gunpowder and are shot out of a turadium barrel and receiver to avoid wear and tear from the volatile gas. Due to the tibanna gas propulsion, the 40 caliber rounds are launched at high speeds for maximum penetration. The barrel holds two sets of energizers which activate upon firing. The first, which runs on the barrel's vertical sides, are polarizers which act much like the polarizing fields on a wookiee bowcaster. On the horizontal sides, there are energizers which are used for energizing tibanna gas from the VSF stun mags.
The VSF Fennec also has a switch on the side which turns on its stun setting. When activated, the polarizers within the barrel and turned off in favor of energizers which charges the expended tibanna gas, causting it to turn into a stun circle as with any other stun rifle. Care should be taken when loading the Fennec as shooting a lethal round while the weapon is set to stun may energize the exploding tibanna gas in the chamber, causing unpredictable results. Shooting a stun round while the weapon is set to lethal, may cause total ignition within the magazine, causing a truly catastrophic failure, which is to say, an explosion.
As with all VSF weaponry, models carried by the Veran Royal Guard come with a teradin wood inlay on the grip.
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