Year 564 Light Repeater
AFFILIATION
Open Market
MANUFACTURER
Kepot-Iktin Electronics Ltd. / Various
SIZE
1m long
WEIGHT
5.3 kg
COMPOSITION
Durasteel and AlusteelWEAPON TYPE
Blaster
DAMAGE TYPE
Medium
AMMUNITION CAPACITY
42
FIRE SELECTOR
Semi Automatic / Automatic (600RPM)
MAX RANGE
90m
DESCRIPTION
The Year 564 Light Repeater, alternatively known as the Type 564, Model 564, M-564 or Y-564, is a light repeater designed by PLANETNAME-based Kepot-Iktin Electronics in order to meet a local weapons requirement during one of many of that world's internal conflicts, quickly being adopted and produced by every major armored faction on the planet. The weapon is simply and cheaply produced, being particularly easy to disassemble and including several welcome features such as a front-folding bipod and a quick change barrel. However, the cheapness of construction comes at a considerable cost to accuracy, with many weapons known to have a wandering zero with sustained firing, and the weapon's shot capacity has been reduced to 42 full-power bolts per power pack to ease the strain on internal components as well as the cheap barrel, though the latter may at least be easily replaced, even in combat. The bipod is generally required for accurate automatic fire.LEGALITY
Generally restricted to proper military and paramilitary organisations, though it's ubiquitous presence on PLANETNAME and the general state of corruption and desperation there means thousands of these weapons have been sold off on the black market by corrupt military officials, with copies also being made off-world in illegal workshops.INTENT
Besides creating a unique tech to be used by the many warlord factions on PLANETNAME, this is a truly light repeater in the sense that none of the other such weapons truly have been, being perhaps the lightest possible such weapon, trading ammunition capacity and accuracy for a lighter weight and somewhat smaller size. See Z-11 repeater and ZipacnaADVANCED TECH
No. Many millions of this weapon have been produced since it's introduction and one is generally easy to obtain if one knows the right people.
