Intergalactic Summit

I've been training with dueling pistols since I was very young. I would not recommend anyone who hasn't trained specifically in pistol dueling to try using one in an actual combat scenario. If you have military training, a regular pistol will do you much better.

I'm usually not a direct combatant when I'm in a battlezone. I'm either covering something for The Scope, or coordinating with DUST Mercs. As a result, I can get away with my dueling pistol most of the time, I rarely have to fire it unless things go south. On one occasion, I had to fight my way out of an ambush with several colleagues and DUST mercenaries. I turned down using a conventional weapon mostly because of my preference for the dueling pistol. It performed rather admirably, I never missed a shot and every shot took down and adversary despite our foes wearing rather thick body armor (armor of any kind is forbidden in lethal and non lethal duels as a result most dueling pistols are not intended to have armor piercing capabilities). I didn't have the time to check if they were all lethal hits, but they probably were. Anti-matter doesn't do a body good.

I wouldn't say it takes nerve to actually use it in a firefight, at least anymore than other weapons. It's merely a weapon I've been fond of and have a personal connection with. Soldiers have an affinity to their assault rifles, assassins love their knives, hitmen adore their snipers, and duelist such as myself prefer their dueling pistols. I appreciate the kind words however, thank you.

I aced my personal weapons training in the institute, and have a modified version of the Duvolle assault rifle, toned down so that a non-dust-merc can use one

Somebody sold you a hot air blower? I wouldn't rate that in a fight. Good for stripping paint, though.

It also functions as a hair dryer.

Yeeeeeeah... I have to ask... Why bother to detune a duster gun when DL makes the absolute best standard infantry plasma rifles in the Cluster? The G75-VLB is just a bigger variant of the more standard guns in the G series. Get one of the normal ones, it'll weigh half as much, and do just fine against non-dusters.

No, much of the light weaponry is specifically designed for the DUST merc market.

Take the Duvolle G75-VLB: that thing has the highest plasma density per shot of any blaster rifle on the market, and the highest cyclotron power rating. all of which they made room for by stripping out the radiation sink and heat shielding. That thing will fatally irradiate a user who's not wearing a dropsuit, in addition to giving them horrible burns on their hands. Hell, even the mercs get a nasty dose of radiation from firing that gun, but given how short the life expectancy on their clones is, that hardly matters.

Don't get me started on those plasma shotguns CreoDron make. Those things will set you on fire if you fire them, quite aside from the cyclotron radiation. There was no market for a gun like that before DUST troopers came along. I mean sure, laser rifles and scramblers are just the same weapons with the safety protocols stripped out, and SWARM launchers are all but unchanged, but it's not like there are no weapons for the DUST trooper market.

Besides, rumour is that some of the weapons labs are experimenting with morphite enrichment. Try to imagine a tech two assault rifle for a second. or tech three! I guarantee you some crazy bastard at Kaalakiota has already experimented with fullerenes and Sleeper nanoribbons.

Tend to see that in other DUSTer equipment.

Take the Drop Uplinks for example.



That's gotta leave a mark. Granted, the ability to hop through a miniwormhole in a dropsuit and come out whereever the uplink is clamped down is an enormous tactical advanateg if deployed intelligently (not in places where, say, someone might ambush you.)

Wish we had these when I was in the service, but wouldnt have been too keen on rad-roasting myself with it, especially in those days before the DUSTers clone bodies, implants, and dropsuits.

I've been experimenting with a series of capsuleer specific nano-viruses.

For example, one is tailored to leave small bumps on the genitalia and cost almost as much as a full set of standard +4 implants to cure.

A second, which is still in the experimental phase, is targeted towards low-grade clones and causes a sense of euphoria in the victim while simultaneously inhibiting feelings of empathy or guilt. The test subjects often report feeling as though they were 'awakening for the first time' or 'being truly free.'