GN-808 'Gutripper' Blaster Carbine

[Kiro]

See I think Ellie and I went the same route on the thinking on this until I remembered: it's a blaster. Blasters fire rather slowly. In fact, I'd say that they fire so much slower that their analog would be the tracer rounds coming out of those machine guns Ellie and I were comparing them against. The only notable exception to this in cannon is that minigun you see in TCW. We could thus infer that this weapon can fire so fast because of its size. This little doodad here doesn't quite have that. Plus, if we go with my comparison of tracer rounds vs bullets (which is usually at a standardized 4 to 1), the fire rate would be around 1/4th to 1/5th of that of an M16. Still, that leaves us with about 250 per second (if we round up to nice big numbers) which ends up as 4 shots per second. Your 3-sec clip-empty is now 10-sec which is a little easier to stomach.

Also, if we use the minigun in TCW as the standard... remember, that was the height of technology of the Clone Wars, with the entire funding of the (far, far, far larger) Republic behind it. This is 1000+ years prior to that, and the Republic doesn't have an army, and is teeny tiny compared to the TCW era Republic. Hell, it doesn't even have a unified police force. So yeah, I don't think this gun would be able to muster up anywhere close to that volume of fire. Not to mention it'd be contrary to Clayton's vibe of the timeline.

At best, I'd say you'd have to compare this gun's output to an E-11 or the EE-3, another canon carbine. But with Star Wars Battlefront being our best examples of their output, and an EE-3 only firing in three-round bursts...

EDIT: Also, remember, blaster bolts rely on completely different mechanics than solid rounds. It relies on a power cell and blaster gas in order to form a bolt (at least according to the old canon, I haven't checked the new if it's changed), and one of the side effects is a heat build-up that is far greater than solid munitions.

The E-Web cannon used by the Snowtroopers on Hoth, a very cold planet, had to lug around a box of liquid super-coolant to keep the gun operational. So, a small gun like this, spraying out 900 bolts per minute? Yeah, I don't see it happening. It'd explode in your hands long before it reached that kind of output.

 

[Manderley]

I'm loving all the feedback.

What sort of bolts-per-minute statistic would be reasonable, then, considering the heat build-up and relative technological infancy?

 

[Outlander]

Just shove a knife on the end.

 

[Kiro]

I'm loving all the feedback.

What sort of bolts-per-minute statistic would be reasonable, then, considering the heat build-up and relative technological infancy?

Don't bother with bolts-per-minute at all. It's a freeform RP site. That kinda statistics is the least concern on this site.

 

[Manderley]

Don't bother with bolts-per-minute at all. It's a freeform RP site. That kinda statistics is the least concern on this site.

Okay. I removed it. Hopefully Clayton-senpai will pay attention to me now.

 

[Clayton]

Approved. I haven't noticed you though.