Blasters

Blasters are a energy based weapon system, designed to eliminate the drawback of other energy weapons, which is their inability to penetrate energy-shields. Although this has already been achieved by Plasmaweapons, these are a possible danger to their user, due to them requiering a plasmatank to be supplyed with ammunition and thus the Blasters were also intended to replace them.

Blasters come in all shapes and sizes, from small blast-pistol sidearms and blast-rifles for infantry use, heavy blasters which are mounted on light vehicles, or carryed by heavy servoarmour infantry, up to blast-cannons used by tank destroyers, or the space ship mounted armageddon-blaster.

Functionality
Like most energy weapons, blasters are supplyed by a battery, or a energy-P.A.C., but they also contain a block of metal alloy within their fireing mechanism. When the trigger is pulled, the internal mechanism accelarates the electron supplyed by the battery and launches them towards the metal block. Those electrons break Ions out of molecules of the alloy and launch them through the barrel out of the gun. These Ions posess a high electric potential and travel at high speed towards their target. Upon impact onto a energy-shield, the difference in potential of the Ions and the field of the energy-shield, lead to a electrical discharge, which can overload the energy-shield and make it break down entirely.

Against physical armour, as with all energy weapons, the heat created by the discharge is capable of melting through the material. When used against vehicles the electricity can interfere with the electronic systems and temporarily disable them, as well as neutralize the crew inside, if the shot fully penetrates.

The major downside of Blasters is the high cost of manufacture, due to the complex systems inside of the gun. Also the alloyblock inside the gun, can depleet over time and has to be replaced in regular intervals, for the gun to opperate at maximum efficiency.