Type 28 NSP

[Wes]

Type 28 Nekovalkyrja Service Pistol

The Type 28 NSP is the successor to the highly successful Type 27 NSP produced by Ketsurui the previous year. While the two weapons share many similarities, their parts (including magazines) are not interchangeable because the pistol has been completely redesigned. Changes include a more compact body and internal components, new materials, a rear-mounted battery (the 27 had the battery in the stock), repositioned light and laser buttons, sights, a trigger guard, and the removal of one safety. Like its predecessor, the Type 28 NSP features an integrated laser sight and tactical flashlight under the barrel that run on an internal battery. This internal battery lasts over 10 hours (using both the laser and the light) without magazine power. The NSP is very lightweight and extremely rugged (especially for an energy weapon) and can perform in extreme conditions (after long submersion in water or ice, covered in mud, after being dropped a few decks, etc.).

The NSP has three firing modes, pulse, heavy, and stun. Modes are selected by a switch on the gun's left side. In pulse mode, pulling the trigger halfway fires a single shot. Fully pulling the trigger fires until the trigger is released. The weapon's heavy mode expends 5 times as much energy, for a grenade-like effect. Stun mode fires a scalar pulse designed to temporarily overcome and disable the target's nervous system and works on both organics and electronics. Pulling the trigger lightly fires enough scalar waves to disable an average human without permanent damage. Pulling firmly fires enough to disable most Nekovalkyrja.

The Star Army has already distributed over a thousand Type 28 service pistols to its soldiers and they are proving popular among both the Nekovalkyrja and humans due to the improved design, though some prefer the Type 27's more complex electronic display. The display on the back of the 27 is replaced by a simple shot counter on the BR-28 magazine itself; this allows for soldiers to quickly check the charge of battery magazines without inserting them into a weapon. The grip is designed for a Nekovalkyrja standard 3-fingered hand, but replacement grips for human-type hands are very easily installed by removing the two screws that hold the grip assembly on. The standard grip is made of polished walnut.

Type: Multi-Purpose Energy Pistol
Model: Type 28 Series Nekovalkyrja Service Pistol
Designer: Ketsurui Hanako
Manufacturers: Ketsurui, Star Army of Yamatai
Government: Yamatai Star Empire
Organization: Ketsurui, Star Army of Yamatai
Dimensions: 17.3 cm long. Weight: 0.5 kilograms.

Range: 300+ meters
Firing Modes: Single/Auto, Heavy/Auto Stun/Heavy Stun
Magazine: Ketsurui BR-28 Rechargeable Battery Mag.
Capacity: 50 shots. (10 if using heavy mode).

Cost: 1000 KS (Comes with 1 magazine and synthetic fabric holster)

Optional Accessories:

Batteries:
BR-28 Battery Magazine with display (standard): 100 KS
BU-28 Non-Rechargable Battery Magazine without display: 40 KS
BR-28 with rail mount (for scopes): 200

Chargers
BR-28 Charger, 2 Slot: 200 KS
BR-28 Charger, 10 Slot: 1000 KS

Carrying Gear
Belt, STAR ARMY, with integrated Type 28 NSP holster: 100 KS
Holster, belt, synthetic fabric (standard): 25 KS
Holster, thigh, synthetic fabric: 30 KS (Available L/R)
Magazine Pouch (holds two), belt: 30 KS
Modular armory rack, Type 28 NSP (holds 20): 50 KS
Modular armory rack, BR-28 (holds 40): 50 KS

Parts
Grip, synthetic with BR-28 holder inside (allows carrying a spare mag): 100 KS
Grip, synthetic with BR-28 holder inside, human hand: 100 KS
Grip, synthetic with Lanyard: 50 KS
Grip, synthetic with Lanyard, human hand: 50 KS
Grip, wood: 75 KS
Grip, wood, human hand: 75 KS

Fabric items are available in black, dark gray, white, tan, and brown

 

[Derran Tyler]

Output?

And I don't think you can 'stun' with a scalar pulse....it's probably always gonna be lethal. Other than that, it's cool.

 

[Wes]

From a military viewpoint, these scalar EM weapons are really quite all-around weapons.
For example, they are very lethal against personnel.
Set in the "high intensity pulse mode," one blast and a person's nervous system is destroyed instantly. Total, instantaneous death results. One can blast away at entire groups of infantrymen, for example. It's the peak power that's important, not the average power. So the weapon doesn't require too much battery power.
Set on a lower intensity pulse mode, one zap can simply knock out a person, rendering him instantly unconscious. Quite useful if one needs prisoners to interrogate. Also very silent, which is useful in operations employing stealth and surprise.

Source: http://www.cheniere.org/books/ferdelance/s80.htm

 

[technococcus]

First, a firing mode selector should probably be on the right side of the pistol or ambidexterously on both sides, so that the mode of fire can be changed by lifting hte trigger finger out of the gaurd and reaching it up to flip the switch. This follows the presuposition that most characters are right handed.

Also, "The weapon's heavy mode expends 5 times as much energy, for a grenade-like effect." That's a pretty iffy idea from a technical standpoint. First, you could pump five times as much energy into a beam weapon discharge, but it would just make a more effective standard hit on the target, not detonate and throw shrapnel like a grenade. Second, if the weapon's barrel, capacitor, and flash supressors are rated to that volume of energy, why not make that the standard output? I mean, overkill doesn't usually hurt...

 

[Wes]

First, a firing mode selector should probably be on the right side of the pistol or ambidexterously on both sides, so that the mode of fire can be changed by lifting hte trigger finger out of the gaurd and reaching it up to flip the switch. This follows the presuposition that most characters are right handed.

Like on an M-16, the fire selector is on the left and can be flipped with the thumb without removing one's finger from the trigger. (See pic) The position you suggested is already taken by the safety, light, and laser switches. There is currently no reverse (lefty) design of the Type 28 (or 27) available. As with all modern real-world military pistols, it's designed to be used with both hands on it.

First, you could pump five times as much energy into a beam weapon discharge, but it would just make a more effective standard hit on the target, not detonate and throw shrapnel like a grenade.

The pulse mode also generates explosive effects on the target surface (although smaller) as the target material expands rapidly from the high energy applied to it.

Second, if the weapon's barrel, capacitor, and flash supressors are rated to that volume of energy, why not make that the standard output? I mean, overkill doesn't usually hurt.

Well, unlike the Type 27 NSP, the Type 28 allows full-auto firing of the heavy mode, so you could do that. But, it'd be pretty stupid in close quarters, since the Type 28 on heavy is powerful enough to total an automobile (whereas pulse mode would just total the door). That sort of firepower usually isn't necessary for defense.

 

[Wes]

The other side:

 

[Ethereal]

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