Grade 0

These weapons are available to civilians, but note that using the light pistol requires taking the Firearms skill. If you didn't take it during character creation, you might as well take Warrior level 1 rather than using a Technician level to take Firearms!

As a manual weapon, an arrow must be loaded before firing; but holding the bow drawn requires both hands and is tiring, so in practice, the bow will not be "loaded" unless the character is immediately expecting trouble.

Available arrows {-5}:

Shurikens

Tiny discs, delivering damage in various ways. They can be thrown 2m per Strength point, at an attack bonus of 2. They come in boxes of 10; the box has an encumbrance of {-4} and individual shurikens are {-5}.

Grade 1

Grade 2

Petrol is listed under Equipment.

Petrol is listed under Equipment.

This weapon emits a horrible moaning sound, so everyone threatened by the wielder within 5m of the target must Save with Willpower or leg it.

Grenades

Thrown, these have an Attack Bonus of -4, except to Warriors and to Technicians with the Support Weaponry skill.

Rifle grenades

These clip onto the muzzle of a gun, and are propelled by the bullet (you have to aim up quite far as they follow a ballistic curve). Taking one from a pack, pocket, etc. and fitting it to your gun counts as one action. Effects:

1. Halve the range of the weapon
2. Halve the normal damage of the weapon
3. Add 6D6 damage (0.5m blast radius)

Any projectile weapon with a barrel can take a rifle grenade, and a burst etc. may still be used - but only 1 grenade per burst!

Cost: 0.1c each. {-5}

Grade 3

Grade 4

Pulse rifle

The pulse rifle is an extremely versatile firearm. Rather than using fixed-size rounds, the pulse rifle uses modular bullets combined with a canister of liquid propellant. In High Auto mode, only small amounts of fuel are used per shot; in Cannon, on the other hand, large quantities are used, but the weapon cannot keep up fully automatic fire at that level.

In "Full Auto(50)" mode, 1 unit of ammunition is used per shot, and the damages are:

In "Full Auto(25)" mode, 3 units of ammunition are used per shot, and the damages are:

In "Auto" mode, 10 units of ammo are used per shot, and the damages are:

Each ammunition cartridge contains liquid propellant and a spool of lead wire with hardened steel penetrator darts in every "unit", that the weapon crimps into bullets of the required size per-shot. So an "Auto"-mode shot is a lead slug containing ten hardened steel darts in a line, propelled by ten times the propellant as in a "Full Auto(50)"-mode shot.

The mortar takes 10 seconds (3 turns) to set up and aim, but can re-aim at nearby targets in a single action.

Grade 5

Other

Recoil nullified. Takes up BOTH HANDS. Comes fitted to a Mechanic exoskeleton for anchoring. Before firing, the character must spend an action activating the anchoring feet that fold out from the thighs and the drills that embed themselves in the floor beneath their feet (the diamond-tipped drills do 2D10*100 damage when they activate). The gun, being one point five metres long and weighing 250kg, slows the character down somewaht due to sheer inertia - -5 to Reactions, -2 to Run Speed.

Firearm Modifications

You can improve a stock firearm (anything that fires bullets) with the following goodies:

Ammunition

Empty magazines cost 0.02c and are {-5} encumbrance for transport.