After years of trying and failing to replicate the shield rending effect of the plasma pistol, ONI researchers almost gave up on it. The issue was that when you fired a supercharged alloy bullet out of an assault rifle, all of the energy ripped the bullet apart and sent only tiny pieces of shrapnel towards the target. The shrapnel was useless and not large enough room fast enough to penetrate human flesh from out of 10 yards away. The energy dissipated into the air around the bullet. Then, two technicians had genius ideas. One realized that he could enlarge the bullets so much that they remained intact while in flight. On contact with anything, the bullet shattered, releasing its energy into what it hit and sending out deadly shrapnel. Unfortunately, the bullets ended up being too large for even a sniper rifle and thus he made a low fire rate, semi automatic, stationary gun. The other ONI researcher embraced the fact that the bullet ripped itself apart and pursued the use of this in a shotgun. At the back of the slug was the power source. When the trigger was pulled on his gun, the energy from the battery was immediately transferred into the ten super conductive pellets in the front. The battery was utterly ripped apart, along with any other remaining parts of the shell. Only the ten pellets remained, and these were launched out of the gun and towards the target like a regular shotgun blast. The shotgun’s bullets travel 10 percent slower than a regular one but it takes merely two pellets to destroy a shield while the others can pierce through armor, flesh, and bone. The base of the shotgun is a heavily modified sawed off saw. Both worked excellent at the The shooting range and were sent to certain planets prone to invasion for a field test.
I couldn’t find much out about how the Plasma Pistol charge shot worked so I tried my best. Mods. Let this go through.
I couldn’t find much out about how the Plasma Pistol charge shot worked so I tried my best. Mods. Let this go through.