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Affiliation: Any, though most common to Republic
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Intent: Creating this to clean up the old legacy tech and to make it fit better with this timeline. It is also created to give those who prefer blasters to other weapons a more fair chance when fighting someone with a lightsaber while not making it unfair for those using lightsabers. It is so anyone who wants to make a similar weapon can see what it can do and hopefully lay down some guidelines for using this exotic tech.
Model/Name: Particle Beam Blaster
Type: Blaster Technology
Power Supply: Powerpack and blaster gas
Size: Light Carbine and up
Composition: N/A
Description: Particle beam blasters started out life as a way to try and improve heavy cannon weaponry by creating a blast that could in theory deliver a more explosive and thermal blaster bolt compared to more contemporary designs of the time. This was however a failure as the beam when scaled up actually was worse than all other types of same size power supply. The technology was dropped for some time until 150 or so years ago when a unknown weapon designer stumbled upon the design.
The designer didn't have the capital to make a large factory and need to make something unique to try and get his idea out the door. What he tried was the nearly forgotten tech of the particle beam. He was able to after some tinkering to adapt it to a smaller weapon while his plan was to have it save energy he found it had the opposite effect.
He was able to get the interest of a manufacturer who studied the tech a bit more. During these tests what made the tech special was found, the beam itself couldn't be deflected by deflector shields or even by the venerable lightsaber. Instead it was found that the weak field instead broke down and released almost all of the energy as various forms of EM radiation. Further testing found that in a single shot mode it was next to impossible to get the the containment field to hold, instead they found using some work arounds that they could get it to work on burst fire and full auto weapons.
Features: (TL;DR)
- Loose containment field that makes it so the bolt can't be deflected, otherwise the same as a blaster bolt.
- Due to the complex firing system it only works in light carbines and larger
- Generally 60% of the range of a comparable standard blaster as well as about the same loss in rang
- Due to the containment of the beam it is a slightly slower in velocity than a standard blaster bolt, coming in at about 80% of that speed.
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