"Death" Assault Rifle

Assault rifle of the Cypher Dominion with an extremely high muzzle velocity.
Death is designed to fire highly dense 'bolts' of exotic particle mass. The pellets have the strange property of staying clumped together after being fired, even staying together when it collides with solid objects like the solid hull of a tank. Due to this strange property, its ammunition resembles a liquid form more closely than discrete magazines. This allows the CD to pack more ammunition, especially when the soldier wielding it is equipped with a large, tank-like backpack.This can either make logistics much easier or harder. Instead of having to carry large volumes of magazines, they take a single, large and heavy, plasma tank. The tank can also present a weak spot, so the CD has made smaller options with better armour. These can still supply the weapon with enough plasma to fire for a decent amount of time though.
Another advantage of this is that the weapon no longer needs to reload. Instead, a small hose will run from the tank to the weapon to supply it with plasma. Instead, the user needs to keep an eye on the weapons heat, as if it overheats too much, it can cause damage to the weapon and render it inoperable. It is designed to be able to resist overheat for a few moments, but even still it suffers performance drawbacks. There is a way to make the weapon automatically manage its heat, where if it detects a temperature above a set value it doesnt allow the user to fire. Furthermore, its very high muzzle velocity allows it to penetrate some matter, such as most species, and sometimes through some lightly armoured vehicle weakpoints. It mostly serves as a suppression weapon though, so on contact with matter the bolts are designed to create a lot of sound to damage the morale of any that it fires at.

Item type

Weapon, Ranged

Owning Organization

Cypher Dominion