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Chapter 2 Page 19

Commissar_Tarkin

on March 13, 2023

Don't forget: negotiations are a perfect opportunity to reload.

While firearms with chemical propellant still exist in the Three Stars Alliance, especially on backwater planets, most small arms are Gauss weapons, also called coilguns, and use electromagnetic propulsion instead. The projectiles usually have a special coating that turns into a plasma envelope during acceleration, for extra stopping power, giving them their trademark glow. The envelope dissipates pretty quickly, however, and is usually lost completely when penetrating hard surfaces or after a ricochet, hence Valdis getting a bare coilgun dart in his leg.