Dagger-Two
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Posted - 2013.07.14 05:44:00 -
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The charges in the magazine of the plasma rifle are lead with a specialized fuse. Once ignited in the firing sequence, the fuse converts the lead to plasma, the plasma is processed into a compressed bolt inside the cyclotron, where it is encased in a magnetic 'bottle', and then expelled at high speed through the electromagnetic 'barrel' of the weapon.
They function very similarly to blasters in EVE, except that the ammunition is solid and must be converted into plasma within the weapon, while blaster turrets use (quite large) canisters of pre-packaged plasma. |
Dagger-Two
Villore Joint Task Force
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Posted - 2013.07.19 17:32:00 -
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Kazeno Rannaa wrote:Dagger-Two wrote:The charges in the magazine of the plasma rifle are lead with a specialized fuse. Once ignited in the firing sequence, the fuse converts the lead to plasma, the plasma is processed into a compressed bolt inside the cyclotron, where it is encased in a magnetic 'bottle', and then expelled at high speed through the electromagnetic 'barrel' of the weapon.
They function very similarly to blasters in EVE, except that the ammunition is solid and must be converted into plasma within the weapon, while blaster turrets use (quite large) canisters of pre-packaged plasma. Where the hell did you get you informations from?? Granted I recognize a few portions of it from posted EVE lore, but the fact of a fuse attached to a lead round that is being turned into plasma, that seems to have come from thin air or the darkest recesses of someone's colon.
Plasma Rifle
An automatic charge-firing rifle. Charge munitions are typically composed of lead and use a cyclotronic firing mechanism. All variants project magnetic containment bottles up to their targets for the plasma to travel in. Because of this, plasma rifles do not have long ranges, make inadequate sniping rifles, and are extremely vulnerable to EMP countermeasures. These are power-intensive weapons. First generation rifles required separate battery and ammunition clips to operate; second generation rifles recycle the energy used in the solid-state-to-plasma conversion to power the magnetic bottle projection.
The actual bit about the fuse, I read somewhere. Books, short stories, i couldn't tell you exactly where, since I've read pretty much every bit of lore-oriented material CCP has released.
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