The Artic Devil
Il Diavolo Artico
First Appearance: Chapter 3.14
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From Chapter 3.14
"With that out of the way, I promised you a big fucking gun. Meet Il Diavolo Artico. The Artic Devil."
She was surprised when Magellani brought out a small carbine. The body was a splendid poly-carbon mesh cast in an aesthetically appealing jaggedness that would comport well inside her forearm.
The barrel, however, was merely eight inches in length. Barely larger than a standard hand cannon.
The diameter of the barrel interior was what impressed her.
"What is it chambered for?"
"13.2 mm slug. Slightly larger than a standard .50 caliber round."
He handed her a slug; a hollow point with a double set of talons engraved inside its head.
"Careful with your thumb on the interior of that. Its bladed. The double talon head chews better through the kind of materials used to make armored vehicles both durable and light weight.
"Materials, like the flesh of a phase beast which is nothing more than an engineered machine crafted through genetics."
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She got the impression Magellani had a personal disdain for the beast, and how it came to be.
Tasìa squinched her nose.
"Where is the full jacket for the round?"
He laughed with a coughing wheeze.
"Haven't figured it out, yet? The gun is not made for standard explosive ballistics."
She noticed the forward grip had extra functionality built into it. There was a blue LED readout.
It read: 38000psi Max. Now At 100%
Set refill at 85%. 32 pellets remaining.
"An air gun?"
"Yes. My lady. At less than half the weight and length of a Barret. Yet, as you see, the kinetic potentiate is nearly the same."
She gave him a skeptical, jaundice eye.
"I like airguns, but for killing anything larger than a jack rabbit ..."
He seemed to take pleasure in countering her assumptions.
"I would not send you out to fight that dread beast with a small game gun. The Artic Devil would make havoc of any living thing. You see the body that comprises the forward grip? It is a distributor for CO2 pellets. It loads one each into the duel gas chambers anytime the pounds per square inch, psi, drops below eighty-five percent for instantaneous thermo-expansion. Approximately, every eight shots. Very pressure efficient.
"Surely, you can see the advantages of the design. Since the round is a simple bullet slug with no jacket, we can store forty-two rounds in the magazine."
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Magellani Arms began their trade in the manufacture of specialized state-of-the-art revolvers. When advanced ammo round capabilities became more common - load outs that include IR arc tracers, elemental effects, gripped surfacing, revolvers once more became the most common handgun the world over as the superior steadiness of revolver frames over repeater pistols give greater stability in the performance of technologically advanced ammo.
Magellani Arms became world renown in the first decade (founded 2037) of their operation. Their first true profitable success came when the Italian Army contracted the manufacturer to create a series of custom revolvers for the needs of their notorious Special Forces Unit, Brigata Nera e Argento.
They set up shops in every nation where there is conflict for close in-the-field performance analysis.
Since those origins they have expanded their creative output to long guns as well. To Tasìa's great fortune she acquired one in her first encounter with the phase-beast.
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