Firearm

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Firearms are any Ranged Weapon used with intent to inflict damage or harm to living creatures, sophonts, vehicles, ships, structures, systems, or other targets.

Description (Specifications)

Guns: The following guns are generally available (but note especially that local planetary law levels may restrict the possession, use, or importation of some or all of these guns). Pistols are effective at all but the longest ranges; other guns are effective at all ranges. [1]

Selected Firearm Types

  1. DEW Smallarms
    1. Laser Carbine [2]
    2. Laser Pistol
    3. Laser Rifle [3]
  1. DEW Light Weapons
    1. FGMP
    2. PGMP
  1. KEW Smallarms
    1. Automatic Pistol [4]
    2. Automatic Rifle [5]
    3. Body Pistol [6]
    4. Carbine [7]
    5. Revolver [8]
    6. Rifle [9]
    7. Shotgun [10]
    8. Submachinegun [11]
  1. KEW Light Weapons
    1. LMG
    2. MMG
    3. HMG
    4. Rocket Launcher

History & Background (Dossier)

The term “Firearms” at one time only meant projectile weapons or slugthrowers. Those terms are often now associated with the acronym KEW, meaning Kinetic Energy Weapon. [12]

Around the TL:7-9 epoch, Energy Weapons or DEW (Directed Energy Weapons), also known as Beam Weapons or Projected Energy Weapons become a significant part of the battlefield. They start as rangefinders and target designators and eventually become a significant weapon for armored vehicles (AFVs), fighting ships, and even as infantry smallarms as the technology is miniaturized. [13]

At that point, the term Firearms is expanded to include three primary types:

  1. DEW (Directed Energy Weapons)
  2. GUW (Guided Weapons)
  3. KEW (Kinetic Energy Weapons)

So, the modern meaning of the term “Firearms” in 1105 IC encompasses all complex, contemporary ranged weapons. The term excludes:

  1. Archaic Ranged Weapons
  2. Melee Weapons

References & contributors (Sources)

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  1. ↑ Marc Miller. Characters and Combat (Game Designers Workshop, 1977), 38.
  2. ↑ Marc Miller. Characters and Combat (Game Designers Workshop, 1977), 40.
  3. ↑ Marc Miller. Characters and Combat (Game Designers Workshop, 1977), 40.
  4. ↑ Marc Miller. Characters and Combat (Game Designers Workshop, 1977), 37.
  5. ↑ Marc Miller. Characters and Combat (Game Designers Workshop, 1977), 39.
  6. ↑ Marc Miller. Characters and Combat (Game Designers Workshop, 1977), 37.
  7. ↑ Marc Miller. Characters and Combat (Game Designers Workshop, 1977), 37-38.
  8. ↑ Marc Miller. Characters and Combat (Game Designers Workshop, 1977), 37.
  9. ↑ Marc Miller. Characters and Combat (Game Designers Workshop, 1977), 39.
  10. ↑ Marc Miller. Characters and Combat (Game Designers Workshop, 1977), 39.
  11. ↑ Marc Miller. Characters and Combat (Game Designers Workshop, 1977), 39-40.
  12. ↑ Information provided to the library by Maksim-Smelchak
  13. ↑ Information provided to the library by Maksim-Smelchak
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