Written by: Null Kit
One of the oldest demons that haunt the development of firearms for cyberlimbs has always been capacity; any useable cybergun design needs to fit its entire ammunition store inside the smallest models of cyberarm without drawing too much attention or taking too much space needed for more vital structures. Most designs make the most of the space allotted by cyberlimbs through reduction of caliber, hyper space-efficient magazine systems and proprietary caseless munitions that utilise ingenius but frustratingly expensive chemical compositions. Barghest's latest offering however, has taken a different approach: Give the gun one shot, but make that shot hit harder than the wrath of the almighty.
All of the space usually used to house additional munitions and feeding-mechanisms in a cybergun have instead been used to mount a single-shot, heavy-caliber receiver and reinforce the entire arm's structure, so as to allow it to just about withstand the hypertrophied forces of
Amarok's proprietary .585 Amaguq cartridge, usually reserved for large-game rifles like the
Hide-Piercer double-rifle.
Personal advice: Don't even think about overpressure handloads in this thing, Null Kit's not blowing smoke about how this thing 'just' withstands the .585 Amaguq. Seen those trids of the 1st-gen Light Fire 70s popping from high-pressure cartridges? Imagine that, but it's your whole arm blowing up. You should still film it if you try though, so we can laugh at you.— Ripshot
I'll be blunt: Any limb that has one of these mounted isn't so much a cyberlimb as it is an implanted gun that happens to also function as a prosthesis. It's not subtle, you've only got one shot and you're going to be lucky if the limb still functions properly after firing it. The Ascalon was never intended as a first-resort weapon, but as an emergency tool to completely terminate one threat. If used properly within those boundaries, however, it can make a bigger difference than a cybergun of lesser caliber could ever hope to achieve.
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