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- “Rimworlder” Semiautomatic Rifle
- Favored by hardscrabble colonists and revolutionaries alike, the
- Rimworlder was a famous model of late-Second Wave semiauto
- rifle designed to function in the harshest environments. Any
- reasonably skilled blacksmith could fabricate the components
- and even an illiterate peasant could be expected to master the
- desultory maintenance needed to keep it functioning. Full
- automatic and burst fire modes were omitted from the design due
- to the common scarcity of ammunition and poor trigger discipline
- exhibited by its usual users. Simple conversions even allow the
- Rimworlder to be used with black powder and paper cartridges,
- for those planets without the luxury of brass cartridge manufacture.
- A Rimworlder fabricated with modern machine tools is about as
- accurate as any other standard rifle, but the genius of the design
- allows it to be fabricated by TL1 societies with access to the necessary
- ferrous ores and gunpowder components. Almost every world can
- manage to brew up some adequate gunpowder analog, barring those
- civilizations totally trapped within hab bubbles or deep space stations.
- Such primitive forged guns suffer a -1 penalty on hit rolls but
- do the same damage. Those societies without metallic cartridge
- manufacture can usually put together a paper cartridge that makes
- the Rimworlder a single-shot weapon with a reload time of 2 rounds.
- The Rimworlder has a special place in the hearts of far traders,
- who often make a point of dropping crates of these cheap, tough
- guns into the hands of useful rebels and private goons. On lowtech
- worlds, the Rimworlder can make the difference between a
- peasant massacre and a successful revolt. The consequences of
- these weapon drops often spiral out beyond the control of all
- involved, but many far traders consider that an acceptable risk.
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