Cycler Rifle

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Cycler Rifle


AFFILIATION
Tusken Raiders / Outlaws

MANUFACTURER
Various

SIZE
1.8m

WEIGHT
4.5kg loaded

COMPOSITION
Various
WEAPON TYPE
Slugthrower

DAMAGE TYPE
Light

AMMUNITION CAPACITY
5 Rounds per clip or magazine

FIRE SELECTOR
Semi Automatic

MAX RANGE
500m


DESCRIPTION
The Cycler Rifle isn't so much a particular model as it is a style of weapon. Once popular among frontier explorers, homesteaders, and local defense forces, they also saw service in specialized units of core world militaries many centuries ago. Once upon a time they were manufactured and distributed en masse by a number of now defunct arms manufacturers, but few modern producers are left. Like most slugthrowers, they are illegal or heavily regulated in much of the core, seeing legal use only in sport and exhibition and it is often difficult to supply ammunition for. Criminals and assassins still find uses for the crude weapons, and they are still commonly found among raiders and pirates- their distinctive thundering crack sound striking fear into their prey.

Despite their wane in popularity and widespread use over the years, thanks to spaghetti desert-planet holovids the Cycler is one of the only widely recognizable slugthrowers in a galaxy that has otherwise forgotten that such weapons still exist. Younglings all over the Galaxy play Troopers and Tuskens, and a Cycler rifle fashioned out of whatever sticks they can lay hands on are a feature in every game.


LEGALITY
Illegal in most civilized systems. Slugthrower weapons are usually considered crude and cruel.



 
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