Weapon ATD Pulse-Wave Rifle

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ATD PULSE-WAVE RIFLE

AFFILIATION
Open market.

MANUFACTURER
Greff-Timms Industrial.

SIZE
Length - 1.3 meters.

WEIGHT
7 kilograms.

COMPOSITION
Durasteel.

WEAPON TYPE
Pulse-wave blaster.

DAMAGE TYPE(S)
  • Heavy.
  • Light.

AMMUNITION CAPACITY
30 shots per power pack.

FIRE SELECTOR
Semi-automatic.

MAX RANGE
100 meters.

DESCRIPTION
The ATD pulse-wave rifle is an archaic form of blaster originally produced by Greff-Timms Industrial, a weapons manufacturer which was mainly active during the time of the Old Republic, but whose products were supplanted by newer, more efficient technologies long before the present day. The ATD has been out of production for many centuries, and employs technology which resembles modern disruptor weapons, although not to quite the same destructive effect.

ATDs, like all pulse-wave weapons, are similar to blasters in that they fire packets of coherent energy. Unlike regular blasters, however, which inflict mainly kinetic and thermal damage, pulse-wave blasters create a spacial distortion, effecting their target on a molecular level. Pulse-wave weapons thus produce similar wounds to a disruptor, although on a much lesser scale and with far less relative efficiency.

The main weakness of pulse-wave weapons like the ATD is their range; after leaving the weapon's focusing array, a pulse-wave bolt rapidly loses cohesion. Though capable of inflicting heavy damage at very short range, after 20 meters the bolts experience a precipitous drop in power, and are capable of only light damage past this distance. Out to 100 meters, the bolts fizzle entirely. Due to this shortcoming, pulse-wave weapons were rapidly replaced by blasters once they became available. Regular blaster rifles, though not as powerful overall, can typically inflict more damage at longer range. Blaster wounds are also not as "messy" as pulse-wave wounds, and are easier to treat.

The ATD boasts inferior specifications to equivalent modern blaster rifles. Range is about 100 meters, with heavy damage out to the first 20 meters and light damage for the remaining 80. The weapon depletes a standard power pack after 30 shots.

ATDs, like all pulse-wave rifles, are rare in the present day, being relegated to museums, private collections and backrocket worlds unable to acquire anything better. In much of the Galaxy, pulse-wave blasters' at least superficial similarity to disruptor weapons have made them similarly illegal, with stiff penalties for beings caught in possession of working examples.

LEGALITY
Illegal. Pulse-wave weapons, largely due to their similarity to disruptor weapons, are lumped in with these infamous devices, and are considered highly illegal in much of the Galaxy- using one could earn you an instant death mark. They are simultaneously more and less powerful than modern blasters.

INTENT
To create a standard pulse-wave blaster rifle.


 
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