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Stitcher
Alexylva Paradox
2499
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Posted - 2013.11.28 12:41:00 -
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As with Jinari, my first line of defence is a couple of well-paid bodyguards, whom I also count as personal friends. Still, it's only sensible to be equipped for your own defence.
My weapon of choice used to be an Ishukone Munitions PSA-33 gauss pistol, but with the advent of heavily-augmented DUST operatives and the fact that any attacker capable of getting past both Aato and Fisk would need some serious stopping, the PSA-33 just didn't cut it any longer.
My current sidearm is a Brutor Tribe T12 revolver. it's got a precision shot-selector capable of listening to the same mental control interface as my personal HUD and instantly selecting which chamber to fire next. throw in some specialist ammo types and it's as versatile a weapon as one could hope for.
You have to be careful when firing it not to break your wrist, though. That gun kicks like a howitzer.
An in-character blog and a video:
http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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Stitcher
Alexylva Paradox
2499
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Posted - 2013.11.28 15:42:00 -
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If nothing else, as I mentioned in the other thread, there are other benefits besides personal protection. There's something meditative about cleaning your gun, and something therapeutic about range time.
Not that I've put a lot of time into either activity recently.
An in-character blog and a video:
http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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Stitcher
Alexylva Paradox
2509
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Posted - 2013.11.29 09:09:00 -
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Mitchell Striker wrote:I'm sure hostile parties appreciate knowing both the self-defence capabilities of their targets as well as whatever weapons they may or may not carry with them.
I'm quite sure that anybody competent who was fixing to kill me would spot that big iron I'm carrying anyway, regardless of whether or not I discuss its existence on Galnet. It's not exactly a subtle piece of hardware.
An in-character blog and a video:
http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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Stitcher
Alexylva Paradox
2509
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Posted - 2013.11.29 16:55:00 -
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Tiberious Thessalonia wrote:If there is someone who wants to kill a capsuleer, and they have managed to get you into a position where you need to use either a personal weapon, or 'martial arts' skills, you will already be dead. They will be the sort of person who is paid large amounts of money to kill very hard to kill people.
Whoever hired them will also have to have been the sort of person to pay a very large amount of money to make sure your soft clones all have accidents as well, else there is no point in attacking the capsuleer at all.
Do not put yourself into situations where you could be killed by a random person wielding a gun, or you basically deserve the minor inconvenience that comes to you.
All of this is accurate, bar one thing: Even the very best make mistakes.
If I were in that situation, if I had been hunted by somebody that skilled, if my soft clones were all offline and my bodyguards were down, then I'd still rather have a gun than no gun. It may not work, but I'd say that the slim chance that it might is better than the certainty of having nothing to do except die.
I intend never to find myself in that scenario. I have arranged things such that it is all but impossible that I ever shall be. But a slim chance at even having the opportuniy for one last desperation move is better than no chance at all.
Besides, if my end comes at anything other than a time and place of my choosing, I'd at least prefer to die armed, purely out of principle and pride.
An in-character blog and a video:
http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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Stitcher
Alexylva Paradox
2510
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Posted - 2013.11.29 17:10:00 -
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It's all down to your choice of sidearm and the kind of ammo you load it with. I'll say no more.
An in-character blog and a video:
http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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Stitcher
Alexylva Paradox
2641
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Posted - 2013.12.11 23:52:00 -
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C krawiec wrote:I aced my personal weapons training in the institute, and have a modified version of the Duvolle assault rifle, toned down so that a non-dust-merc can use one
Somebody sold you a hot air blower? I wouldn't rate that in a fight. Good for stripping paint, though.
An in-character blog and a video:
http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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Stitcher
Alexylva Paradox
2642
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Posted - 2013.12.12 00:16:00 -
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Aracturus wrote:Stitcher wrote:
Somebody sold you a hot air blower? I wouldn't rate that in a fight. Good for stripping paint, though.
It also functions as a hair dryer.
well, sure. if you don't mind delivering a few hundred milliSieverts to your brain...
An in-character blog and a video:
http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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Stitcher
Alexylva Paradox
2643
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Posted - 2013.12.12 15:15:00 -
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No, much of the light weaponry is specifically designed for the DUST merc market.
Take the Duvolle G75-VLB: that thing has the highest plasma density per shot of any blaster rifle on the market, and the highest cyclotron power rating. all of which they made room for by stripping out the radiation sink and heat shielding. That thing will fatally irradiate a user who's not wearing a dropsuit, in addition to giving them horrible burns on their hands. Hell, even the mercs get a nasty dose of radiation from firing that gun, but given how short the life expectancy on their clones is, that hardly matters.
Don't get me started on those plasma shotguns CreoDron make. Those things will set you on fire if you fire them, quite aside from the cyclotron radiation. There was no market for a gun like that before DUST troopers came along. I mean sure, laser rifles and scramblers are just the same weapons with the safety protocols stripped out, and SWARM launchers are all but unchanged, but it's not like there are no weapons for the DUST trooper market.
Besides, rumour is that some of the weapons labs are experimenting with morphite enrichment. Try to imagine a tech two assault rifle for a second. or tech three! I guarantee you some crazy bastard at Kaalakiota has already experimented with fullerenes and Sleeper nanoribbons.
An in-character blog and a video:
http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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