Elthar Security Solutions PSB-3hv "Hiraku" Heavy Blaster

[Grim]

Affiliation: Non-Imperial, Security forces, PMCs, Bounty Hunters, Independents


Ownership:
Grim'rix
Astra Iviin



*Notes Individuals and Factions alike are allowed to use this*


Intent: To add to the list of pistols available for factions and individuals. Almost everything in the Unified list is a slug thrower so I figured I would add in a blaster to liven things up a bit.

Model: PSB-3hv "Hiraku"


Type: Particle Beam Blaster


Size: 240 mm in length, weight 1.4 Kg

Composition: Titanium, Durasteel, Polymers

Range: Effective range is 50 meters 75 Meter Maximum


Ammunition Capacity: Uses Elthar Security Solutions standard set up for a powerpack that holds both the gas and the powerpack. 12 rounds.


Description: Created as part of the PSB line that has gained popularity thanks to the "Shoki" rifle. The pistol was again designed for those contractors and individuals that need to be able to make sure that their target goes down. The bolt itself can penetrate light armor with ease. This is achieved thanks to a system similarly used on the very old and venerable DL-44. The heavy capacitor allows it to fire twice the charge of a normal blaster pistol. As such this weapon has been banned on some peace loving planets, but most are starting to buy them for their own forces getting ready for the coming storm. An added benefit learned from the the "Hiraku"'s big brother the "Shoki" is that it has fond a niche with Bounty Hunters who find them self dealing with Lightsaber armed targets. While no where near as powerful a blast as its big brother, the "Hiraku" will rattle the Lightsaber wielders grip and the flash of light and noise of the Particle Beam discharging can partially blind, deafen, or both the wielder of the Lightsaber. The result is combatants have can find it hard to keep blocking round after round. There was even a report of a Force user that held it to close to his face when blocking and lost a good portion of his own nose as he did not have a decent grip on his weapon.

Built to look good and work even better, the heavy frame of the blaster allows it to absorb much of the heavy recoil. The blaster was designed to be quick to disassemble and just as quick to clean and put back together, the important parts are made of Durasteel or encased in it to prevent breakage. The pistol itself was tested in everything from swamps to frozen tundras and was shown to work regardless of its environment. This has started to earn the blaster a nice reputation with the law and those flirting at the end of the law. Add to that I fair price of 850 Credits the pistol is set to take its fair share of the market.


Features:

• Integration with armor HUDs
• Rails for custom scopes
• Fold down Iron sights, activating the Holo 1x red dot sight
• Under barrel attachments of lights, pointer or stunners
• Various ergonomics kits available for various species
• Device that can alert a HUD, or vibrate the pistol gently when down to its last 3 shots

 

[Sierrien]

I really like this pistol. I'd love to purchase one for my character :P

Before that, I have a question if you don't mind. It says in the link to "Partical Beam Blaster" that a rifle wouldn't be able to be blocked by a lightsaber. Would this pistol be blockable by a lightsaber or no?

 

[Andrewza]

Defkected and blocked are two different things

 

[Grim]

It couldn't be deflected if that is your question. Just like the rifle it would explode on contact with a light saber beam. Though while I don't have any idea for how big a "Low Yield" explosion is. I imagine in my mind that the force of a rifle is closer to that of say a 40mm grenade exploding and the pistol closer to a 20mm grenade exploding. Though I am sure someone somewhere has a more accurate translation.

 

[Green Ranger]

While I'm fine with the Shoki rifle since I think you put a fair bit of work into making it a fairly reasonable design, I just think a particle beam blaster is kind of unbalanced on a pistol scale.

 

[Grim]

While I'm fine with the Shoki rifle since I think you put a fair bit of work into making it a fairly reasonable design, I just think a particle beam blaster is kind of unbalanced on a pistol scale.

I was debating that, but the only other weapon system with similar anti-force user properties is a maser but they have really low range. What if I pulled back on the range to say 30 optimal 45-50m max and drop it down to say 8 in the mag?

 

[Green Ranger]

I was debating that, but the only other weapon system with similar anti-force user properties is a maser but they have really low range. What if I pulled back on the range to say 30 optimal 45-50m max and drop it down to say 8 in the mag?

Honestly, I hate masers even more.

The thing is that while the Shoki's got a relatively slow rate of fire, and it'd a large and fairly bulky weapon, these...aren't. I think, if anything, you'd really have to nerf the actual particle beam down to a point where it could feasibly be blocked by a lightsaber, but still detonate, just in a far less harmful radius.

Which actually is still kinda handy, since we're talking explosive flashes right in front of your face. Even if they're harmless, they're fairly bloody distracting.

 

[Fat Possum]

How would it penetrate armor as a loosely packed bolt of energy? Wouldn't it just explode against the surface as opposed to punching through anything?

 

[Green Ranger]

How would it penetrate armor as a loosely packed bolt of energy? Wouldn't it just explode against the surface as opposed to punching through anything?

Could be wrong here, but I think it's due to the 'charged' mechanisms it's got outlined there. Which, given the exotic blaster tech, might need to be nixed. I'm still undecided.

 

[Grim]

I will work on it, but for a size comparison, its roughly the size and weight of a fully loaded Desert Eagle, a large and ungainly handgun. Sense I think I am the first to make this into a pistol, we could say that instead of so much concussive force the beam explodes rather brightly and with some slight thermal damage EDIT: nothing much, maybe like touching a light bulb that had been on for a bit.

As for the armor, the way the wiki has it listed is that it behaves like a blaster until it hits energy like a lightsaber. I think what the author was saying is that when it hits instead of being reversed or deflected, the particles just up and say "Nope" and then release all the energy instead of going back.

 

[Arcangel]

I will work on it, but for a size comparision, its roughly the size and weight of a fully loaded Desert Eagle, a large and ungainly handgun. Sense I think I am the first to make this into a pistol, we could say that instead of so much concussive force the beam exlodes rather brightly and with some slight thermal damage?

As for the armor, the way the wiki has it listed is that it behaves like a blaster until it hits energy like a lightsaber. I think what the author was saying is that when it hits instead of being reversed or deflected, the particles just up and say "Nope" and then release all the energy instead of going back.

Due to their unstable nature, particle beams acted like blaster bolts when fired, but upon contact with an energy field or solid object, would explode violently.

Quotes from wiki. It explodes on energy fields as well as solid objects like armor.

 

[Green Ranger]

Actually, possum has a point - on contact with energy or a solid object, the particle beam explodes. That's not really anything new compared to blasters when they impact with solid objects, since they explode as well, but for lightsabers it's a little different.

I'd say given the size of the weapon the detonation on impact with a lightsaber beam wouldn't really be too effective on its own, but a combination of an explosion in your face creating a fair bit of light and noise, and the increased concussive effect from the detonation itself could be used to unbalance a lightsaber weilder, making it difficult to block multiple bolts in succession.

 

[Grim]

So I just add it it doesn't explode as hard as its big brother but enough that if the user of said blade holds it to close to his face he might be short a nose and a bit blind for a bit?

 

[Green Ranger]

More or less that'd be how I'd define it.

 

[Grim]

Alrighty I will work that in then.

 

[Grim]

Okay should be good now. I think I made it clear.

 

[Green Ranger]

That looks fine, but we both kidna got caught up and overlooked the 'explodes on solid objects' part in regards to armor piercing. >.>

 

[Grim]

Wouldn't that be the same as any other blaster? in a New Hope you see it explode on the stormtroopers armor So I imagine in that regard it is the same.

 

[Green Ranger]

Not sure. I'd argue that it'd be slightly less effective, since the beam itself is less tightly packed than a blaster. Wider dispersal of energy vs sheer boring power.

Or something.

 

[Grim]

Since it is a heavy blaster can I keep the light armor, and I will nix the medium?