Skyside 4

[Darkcomet]

Chimera Syndicate Trade Platform

The Nebari shall pick up an LR-50, and ask for a target. She's interested in the accuracy, but more interested in how visible the beam is. She's a trained infiltrator and assassin, and whilst lasers make less noise than projectile snipers, the beam can point out exactly where they're hiding.

The Terrisman in the striped robes motions to the Great Khans, and orders one to try the LR-46 and LP-50, both with and without the beam-splitter. Another Great Khan will try the CMW range; more for himself and his colleagues, than the organisation as a whole.

The Thugs in vests are far more interested in explosions than lasers, and will try the missile launcher.

The Dunmer is only here in case things get out of hand and magic is required, though she'll look around, joined after a while by the people in dusters and bowlers.

At the edge of the area, smaller drones deploy and arrange themselves, deploying holographic targets (both circular and humanoid-shaped) at various ranges for those interested in the lasers and Dominion gauss weapons. The holograms will distort upon being 'hit', and then will be marked where the hit occurred, with a range of colors ranging from blue for light damage to red for the most serious, marring the gray images. However, the guard drone present has something to point out about the missile launcher.

"While you are free to use dummy ammunition for the HP-01X on the range here, please bear in mind that this is an inadequate test of its destructive potential. Live ammunition testing will require access to local targets, possibly a junkyard, and payment for the ammunition used."

Meanwhile, the LR-50 proves quite adept in what it does. Being a laser-based high-powered marksman weapon, it is very difficult to miss what you're pointing at with it. It does have a visible blue beam, but if this is brought up as an issue, the LR-50B is offered with a nonvisible beam, with a thermal sight installed by default so the user can see exactly where it went. It's a bit more expensive, though.

The LR-46 and LP-50 are both quite accurate and easy to use, though for a Khan with little experience with energy weapons, the lack of recoil and spread might seem alien. Their range limitation is largely based on beam coherence, as it drops off over longer ranges, with a shorter range on the pistol. The beam splitter deliberately reduces the core beam's coherence to the point of it scattering, creating a lower-intensity, but shotgun-like weapon that delivers its damage over a wider area.

The gauss weapons pack a more brutal, visceral punch than the lasers, but prove to not be quite as accurate. Due to the technology involved, they're more powerful and longer-ranged than conventional firearms of similar types, but simultaneously, they have more difficult upkeep than either gunpowder weapons and the Syndicate's preferred lasers, requiring both power packs and solid ammunition. Hard to argue with the raw damage they're capable of, though.