New Weapons and Armour

Fuel held in backpack.

Weights decrease by 1kg per TL up to TL10.

Ammo price is for a refill of its tank.

Note that the fuel tank can explode if it takes enough damage; the chance and effects of this should be derived from the Mishap Table.

Used on some pre-stellar (TL6+) worlds in danger from high-tech forces; the harpoon can penetrate combat armour.

Everything inside the danger space of this grenade is covered in paint. This does no damage but will mark everything until it can be removed.

Uses the same ammunition, but not the same clip, as a 9mm autopistol or SMG. Is slightly less accurate due to the autofire mechanism.

These are basically the same as Snub Pistol rounds, but with timers and contact detonation rather than propellant.

HE, HEAP and Gas (including smoke) types exist, all with effects as for the equivalent Snub Pistol rounds.

Available commercially at Law Level 4 or less, for home protection, but also for ground clearance (removing tree stumps and so on); at higher law levels restricted to the police and military.

Usually sold in packs of 10.

A more advanced version of the SMG, it fires 4 bullets per pull of the trigger

Ammo types and effects are as for a Snub Pistol; bullets are interchangeable with a snub pistol, though magazines are not.

Note that I came up with this before Challenge magazine published its version of the Snub SMG

As a normal automatic pistol version of a snub pistol but with a selector switch between the two clips, so the user can choose what to fire without changing clips. Uses the same clips as a normal snub pistol, and can use just a single clip at once.

Basically a handgun, not unlike a snub pistol, that uses ARL clips and ammunition

Basically a SMG, not unlike a snub SMG, that uses ARL ammunition, though in a larger clip. Only fires 4-round bursts.

A more advanced version of the SMG, it fires 4 or 10 rounds per pull of the trigger. It uses the same ammunition types as a gauss pistol or rifle.

Everything inside the danger space of this grenade takes no damage but is immobilised by air-permeable sticky fibres. These can only be removed by a special solvent or by a Strength-based task against a Formidable difficulty.

Combines a Gauss Rifle and ARL into a single weapon; takes two separate clips of standard Gauss Rifle and ARL types.

Both barrels can be fired simultaneously at the same targets with recoil etc. being summed; however, if autofire is used both hit only the first and second targets; Gauss Rifle only hits third.

Volume and weight are that of heaviest individual weapon plus half that of other weapon(s).

The idea behind this weapon is that for less than the cost, weight and volume of a plasma or fusion gun it is possible to get a weapon that is almost as dangerous and far more versatile than them.

A microwave beamer pistol that attacks robots in a similar way to a neural pistol does a human, using electromagnetic pulse effects.

Damage: If Pen is greater than or equal to the armour of the target then at TL 14 damage is based on the sucess level of the attack. At TL 15+ damage is selectable. On an exceptional sucess the brain of the robot is completely disrupted and must be manually reset. On a normal sucess implement a 2D mishap; on a marginal sucess implement a 3D mishap (Electronic Circuit Protection reduces these rolls by 1D). Handle mishaps as follows:

• Superficial: One application program erased.
• Minor: 1D programs erased.
• Major: 2D programs erased, robot takes 1D hits and brain must be repaired (minor damage).
• Destroyed: Brain of robot is destroyed and must be replaced.

Uses Laser Weapons skill.

Nearly all of the microwave power is at freqeuncies that are not absorbed by organic matter or water.

This weapon was created after an episode of my Traveller game in which robots the player characters had bought performed all the plot-related action in that session, and I decided it was time to do something about it...

Combines a Laser Rifle, Gauss Rifle and ARL into a single weapon; takes a standard laser rifle battery pack plus two separate clips of standard Gauss Rifle and ARL types.

Has inbuilt gyrostabilisation and an electronic sight equivalent to PRIS binoculars.

All 3 barrels can be fired simultaneously at the same targets with recoil etc. being summed; however, if autofire is used all 3 hit only the first target; Gauss Rifle and ARL hit second and Gauss Rifle only hits third.

Can also fire normal RAM grenades.

Volume and weight are that of heaviest individual weapon plus half that of other weapon(s).

The idea behind this weapon is that for less than the cost, weight and volume of a plasma or fusion gun it is possible to get a weapon that is almost as dangerous and far more versatile than them.

A higher technology version of the standard integral laser pistol. It is rechargable.

Used with Energy Weapons skill

In an emergency can be used as a zero-G manoeuvring thruster, if the user has zero-G skill

A higher-tech version of the plasma rifle that is capable of automatic fire.

Used with Disintegrator Weapons skill

Disintegrators work on a principle of quantum randomisation, using control of quantum probability (as implied by nuclear dampers and meson screens) to randomise the position in space of all particles in a target volume.

Due to the nature of the disintegration effect, on an aimed shot user can shoot through obstacles and only hit the target

Used with Energy Weapons skill

In an emergency can be used as a zero-G manoeuvring thruster, if the user has zero-G skill

Attaches to MAW-13 or MAW-15

Chain mail is armour consisting of small metal rings linked together in a pattern to form a mesh. Mail armour provides a highly effective defence against the weapons of the Medieval Period and equivalent. On most worlds as technology develops it is rendered obsolete by plate armour and then later by the increasing power and availability of firearms.

Low-technology armour such as that used by medieval knights on Earth, it is made from large metal plates, worn on the chest and sometimes the entire body. On most worlds as technology develops it is rendered obsolete by the increasing power and availability of firearms.