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- | Guide to Small Arms on Furscape | + | ====== |
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- | Handguns/ | + | ===== Handguns/ |
Handguns haven' | Handguns haven' | ||
- | Shotguns: | + | ===== Shotguns |
This is another area that has made some improvement, | This is another area that has made some improvement, | ||
- | Rifles: | + | ===== Rifles |
This includes sniper rifles, assault rifles, and standard rifles. Because of their size and abilities, this is an area that has made marked improvement in the past 200 years. The majority of rifles are electrically-fired, | This includes sniper rifles, assault rifles, and standard rifles. Because of their size and abilities, this is an area that has made marked improvement in the past 200 years. The majority of rifles are electrically-fired, | ||
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- | Non-lethal weaponry: | + | ====== |
- | More considered to be deterrents or devices to incapacitate an attacker without causing permanent harm, non-lethal weaponry is commonplace. The most common incarnation of this breed of weaponry is pepper spray. | + | More considered to be deterrents or devices to incapacitate an attacker without causing permanent harm, non-lethal weaponry is commonplace. The most common incarnation of this breed of weaponry is pepper spray. |
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+ | * Melee-range, | ||
+ | * Wired projectile, which shoots a pair of barbed electrodes on wires from a single-use cartridge. The energy source and control circuitry are in the weapon itself. These weapons can have anywhere from one to three cartridges ready to deploy, but will only fire one cartridge at a time. Range is usually around 15 meters. | ||
+ | * XREP (eXtended Range Electro-Muscular Projectile) rounds that hold the battery, electrodes and control circuitry in a self-contained, | ||
+ | //OOC Note: You may be tempted to shrug off the effects of Taser-style weapons and continue roleplaying the scene as if the only thing that happened to you was being poked by a pair of barbed needles. I invite you to search YouTube for videos of US Marine Corps personnel being tased (for a single five-second jolt), and from there, advance the technology a couple hundred years. Tasers work. Even on cyborgs (in fact, maybe even BETTER on cyborgs, depending on where impact occurs). If you doubt this, page a member of RP staff for an opinion. - Hagalaz// | ||
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- | Examples of things that are NOT allowable | + | Examples of things that are NOT allowable |
- | Laser/plasma weapons (laser weapons are allowed in LITE combat), disproportionately | + | * Man-portable laser/plasma weapons (pistol/ |
+ | * Disproportionately | ||
+ | * "Smart" ammunition (able to track a target, etc... Think ' | ||
+ | * Perhaps the biggest no-no is a man-portable minigun (which technically doesn' | ||
In short, if you are thinking about designing a laser rifle, or a minigun, or a laser minigun, DON'T. | In short, if you are thinking about designing a laser rifle, or a minigun, or a laser minigun, DON'T. | ||
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