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Slug-throwers, beams & psionic archery
◆ Click item art to enlarge · 14 records · 4 known specimens ◆
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10mm Magnum
Lightweight sidearm · legal civilian carry in the Alliance, Spain and Taiwan
- Highly modifiable — modifications often exceed the gun’s base price
- Light enough for dual-wielding (Covenant Vorons carry a pair)
The people’s pistol of the 23rd century. Light, legal in the free countries, and endlessly modifiable — which is why the mods usually cost more than the gun. Taiwan led the world in production until the Imperium annexed the province; the lines run on in Xing Hong.
// Known Specimens — 1 on record
// Known Specimen 01
Jade
10mm Magnum · AI-assisted custom build · Zhi-Xin Wu
- Neural-link targeting integrates with Xin’s glasses — intuitive aim from visual cues
- Compact mini computer beneath the barrel processes the data · runs notably hot
- Modified gradually as his skills — and his need to protect Håkon — grew
Xin’s go-to weapon. Where his body fails him, Jade’s targeting computer does the aiming; he supplies the reason to pull the trigger.
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Plasma Handgun
Directorate energy pistol · slow-firing · lime-green core
- Slow rate of fire · high pure-energy damage per shot
- Lime-green plasma core and projectile
A Directorate-made pistol that trades rate of fire for raw energy damage: slow to cycle, punishing on impact, and unmistakable for the lime-green core glowing through the receiver.
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Breacher Shotgun
Terra Alliance close-quarters shotgun · designed for tunnel warfare on Osram
- Cascade Chamber — rotating cylinder holds three ammunition types, thumb-selectable: breaching rounds, buckshot, specialized loads — no manual reload
- Recoil dampening for single-handed operation — built for zero-gravity boarding, loved by dual-wielders
- Shortened barrel with magnetic field stabilizers keeps the spread lethal · integral muzzle brake redirects blast away from the face
The Alliance’s answer to fighting in the tunnels of Osram, where every engagement is a doorway. The white composite frame hides the dampening that lets one hand fire it; the Cascade Chamber means the right round is always a thumb away.
// Known Specimens — 1 on record
// Known Specimen 01
Skuld
Heavily modified Alliance Breacher · Emmanuel Boateng’s forge · Sigrun Fjeld
- Extended barrel with integrated choke: 40% tighter spread
- Effective range 25 m (standard Breacher: 15 m)
- Requires two-handed operation until the user develops sufficient strength
- Full stopping power beyond typical shotgun distance — cover for when her Lunar spells fail or the Aether runs dry
Tighter spread and extended range let Sigrun engage well beyond shotgun distance with full stopping power, compensating for her initially weak psionics. Skuld is what she reaches for when the corridor is long and the magic is short.
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Oriental Hemorrhagic
Imperium double-barreled shotgun · discontinued · black market only
- Double-barreled · excels at close range
- Inflicts bleeding damage — wounds keep bleeding after the shot
- Known bearer: Iron Roach, Slumbering Mantis Inn
An Imperium-made double-barrel built to make wounds that don’t close. The Atomic Accord pressured the Imperium into halting production; the guns already made simply changed hands. Iron Roach keeps one under the bar at the Slumbering Mantis Inn.
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Uranus Sonic
Sonic-burst shotgun · origin unknown · believed Nirboh
- Non-lethal “boop” configuration — knocks enemies backward with little damage
- Radioactive-coil configuration — interferes with electronics: sensors, communication devices, some armor systems temporarily disabled
- Many modifications between those two extremes
A mysterious shotgun that fires a spread of slow sonic projectiles. Its modifications run from a harmless shove to coils that blind a sensor suite; what it never seems to be is cruel. Few know it exists, fewer have seen one, and the ones who have tend to agree about where it came from.
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Gauss Rifle
Electromagnetic accelerator rifle · backbone of Xing Hong ground forces
- Ferromagnetic projectiles at devastating velocities
- Standardized ammunition · rapid magazine reloads
- Drawbacks: battlefield casing litter · ammunition weight limits extended patrols
The Gauss Rifle is what an army buys when it wants every shot to behave the same way. Xing Hong built its ground forces around it and considers the casing litter and the heavy magazines a fair trade for the stopping power.
// Known Specimens — 1 on record
// Known Specimen 01
Thunder
Covenant-issue L85A9 bullpup · Birmingham Armory · Marcus Thorne
- Heavy kinetic impact — punches light armor or drops a Bone Fiend at 100 m (in theory)
- Semi-automatic · each pull requires deliberate aim
- In practice: man-sized targets at 30 m with concentrated effort
Marcus’s fallback when enemies stay beyond sword reach. His abysmal Agility keeps the rifle slung for most of a fight; it comes out for flyers, or when closing the distance would be suicidal. He practices every third day — the Covenant minimum — without enthusiasm.
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Plasma Rifle
Gongon Mk IV plasma repeater · Emerald Directorate
- Full-auto capable · deadly at mid-range
- Extremely heavy — extended carry is difficult for most soldiers; Directorate soldiers like Jabari wield it comfortably
The Directorate’s plasma repeater, named for the protector spirit and built for soldiers with a protector’s frame. Most people can carry it. Directorate soldiers can fight with it.
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Pulse Laser
Full-auto Alliance energy weapon · low-temperature blue beams
- Excels in vacuum, where conventional firearms struggle with heat dissipation
- Requires sustained fire to match Imperial gauss-round penetration — Vanguards compensate with volume and precision
An Alliance energy weapon firing low-temperature blue beams: nothing to eject, nothing to overheat in a hard vacuum. It gives up single-shot penetration for that, and the Vanguards make up the difference with discipline.
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Anti-Gravity Bolt-Action Rifle
AGBAR · bespoke Nordic firearm · 19th-century action, 23rd-century materials
- Quantum-assisted cycling functions in zero gravity or extreme atmospheres
- Smart ammunition switches between kinetic penetrators, explosive rounds, and limited-yield plasma charges
- Iconic manual operation retained
- Requires specialized maintenance and rare components · custom ammunition costs exponentially more than standard rounds
Bespoke Nordic rifles blending bolt-action mechanics with 23rd-century materials. The Nordgårds fire them in disciplined volleys beside Krabba packs; collectors pay for the craftsmanship and then keep paying for the ammunition.
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Proximan Entropy
Rakshasa entropy rifle · quantum-instability field
- Fires concentrated fields of quantum instability that slightly alter the target’s molecular structure
- Damage usually cannot be healed by Medi-Vap
- Easily healed by any level of Nucleus Cultivation
Rakshasa-made. An Entropy Rifle doesn’t punch holes; it nudges the target’s molecules somewhere they weren’t. Conventional medicine has no answer for that. The body, properly cultivated, does.
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Phoenix SMG
Imperial submachine gun · Kunlun titanite frame · late 21st century
- Kunlun titanite: dense, recoil-absorbing — exceptional control
- Nearly twice the weight of comparable weapons — demands upper-body strength for extended use
- Rarely seen: rare and expensive materials, gun and ammunition alike
Built around the Imperium’s reserves of Kunlun titanite, the Phoenix prioritizes control over everything else, including the shooter’s shoulders. A late-21st-century design that is still viable two centuries on — and still rare, because the mountains only give up so much titanite.
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Huginn SMG
Terra Alliance submachine gun · polymer composite · kinetic acceleration
- Weighs less than most pistols · adequate firepower through kinetic acceleration
- Modular: barrels, stocks and fire-control systems swap without tools
- Full polymer body naturally dissolves in outer space — an environmentally friendly weapon, assuming such a concept applies
The American answer to the submachine gun: light enough to forget, modular enough to rebuild in the field, and honest enough to disappear when discarded in vacuum. Named for the raven that flies out and comes back with what it saw.
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Kinetic Crossbow
Magnetic-acceleration crossbow · Griot tradition · Imperium design
- Magnetic acceleration — bolts penetrate modern armor · near-perfect accuracy at medium range
- Modular: explosive tips, tranquilizers and other bolt types
- Light and easy to learn · slow reload — poor for rapid engagements
Originally a Griot’s instrument, now the weapon of choice for people who are paid by the result or soldiers who value consistency over flashiness. It hits where you point it and takes its time about the next one.
// Known Specimens — 1 on record
// Known Specimen 01
Oya
Kinetic Crossbow · teal-bronze frame, Yoruba storm patterns · Jabari Adomako
- Modular frame allows extensive modification
- Possible upgrades: sonic resonator bolts · plasma string · auto-loading magazine · psionic targeting interface · dual-fire mode
- Nobody else handles it
“She carries my voice across distances when my songs cannot reach.”— Jabari, on the name
Jabari treats the crossbow as another instrument — each bolt its own note. He talks to it, maintains it obsessively, and has never let anyone else touch it.
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Psi Bow
Psionic bow · Nordic Commonwealth weapon traditions · heavy weapon
- No physical ammunition — the archer draws back Aether and shapes arrows of concentrated psionic force
- Arrow type follows discipline: Lunar = gravity-distorting bolts · Solar = healing or burning light · Eclipse = pure destruction
- Unlimited ammunition · power scales with the user
- Useless without Aether — exhaustion, emotional turmoil, or psionic dampening fields disable it
A weapon that is only as good as the person holding it, in the most literal sense: the Psi Bow fires what the archer has left. On a good day that is unlimited. On a bad day it is a stick.
// More records incoming
The Armory grows as the saga does. New ranged entries are added as they surface in the books and the Codex.
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