TCS Guardian Battle Rifle
The Guardian Battle Rifle (GBR) is an Artificer weapon issued to the Toledo City-State(organization:c1616be9-5667-4c0b-ac8c-d508da1fa3e0) @[Guardian forces. The GBR represents a very significant and impactful small-arms advantage over most other conventional forces within Earth That Is, or, at least, it was when the TCS was still allowed to field such forces. As part of the controls imposed at the end of the Mid-Ohio Resource War, the Guardian forces were disarmed and disbanded and any remaining GBRs were confiscated and either destroyed or otherwise contained by the The Union of Artificers. There have been no known recorded uses of the GBR after the end of that conflict.
Beyond being an Artificer weapon, the GBR had three distinctive features that made it a fearsome weapon. The first is the ability to enable a rapid-fire mode, similar to the machine guns of Earth That Was. When most militias and small-time armies used either Stuffer weapons or easier to reload but still single shot Whizzer guns, the ability to fire multiple high-powered shots per second became an overwhelming advantage in any conflict. Second was that the GBR was fitted with what was called an "All-sight", another piece of Artificer technology. The All-sight was similar to Earth That Was battle optics, having a small amount of magnification due to a piece of precision ground glass (also done use proprietary Artificer manufacturing), but it could also slightly illuminate living objects within the field of view of the sight. This gave potential targets a slight but non-distracting halo to them, regardless of the ambient light available. This allowed the viewer to separate targets from concealment and to act as a form of "night sight". So much of the gun's operation was built around the All-sight that only a small set of ring + post sights, mounted in the last third of the barrel, were added on in case of malfunction or damage to the All-sight. Lastly, the GBR had a built-in hard mount attachment point near the center that mated up to an attachment point on the Guardian Chariot, allowing the GBR to be fired during flight and while maneuvering the vehicle. The range and flying ability of the Chariot combined with the rate of fire on the GBR made the Guardian forces devastating to their opposition.
Item type
Weapon, Ranged
Manufacturer
Related Technologies
Owning Organization
Rarity
Non-existent
Weight
10.2 lbs
Dimensions
41" total length
Raw materials & Components
Steel, bronze