work in progress gun rocket launcher weapon mechanism thing i'm making
still trying to figure out the colors on the main body and i have plans™ on the bottom part, so forgive the garbage screenshots
this is a really weird idea i got from playing Fortress One, just something about the grenade launcher viewmodel 'clicked' with me, the way it reused the model with different colors made me imagine a single weapon platform with swappable "modules" that perform the functions of different weapons such as a rocket launcher & grenade launcher & flamethrower & whatever
the materials (main body material is unfinished)
i'm doing this mostly for fun & practice, but my secondary plan was to do this as a replacement mod for Fortress Forever, if it gets steam workshop integration (more likely than you'd think)
Metaspace, much like temperature and vacuums, is a tool derived from Humans control over nature. Metaspace is hard to explain, as there are no proper way to observe it, yet it’s common knowledge that it exists. And of course, like when life discovers fire, it takes time to harness its true potential. Right now, Metaspace is used as a means of translight-speed travel and for highly experimental weaponry.
What exactly is Metaspace? Well from extensive research, Metaspace proves to be some sort of dimension that exists within ours, exhibiting our exact physical properties such as mass and inertia to some degree. But it’s completely independent of time. Another name for it is the 3rd Dimension, as now physicists theorize that we might really exist in the true 4th Dimension, or at least somewhere between the 3rd and 4th dimension. Metaspace was discovered while experimenting with breaking the light barrier. Taking advantage of the recently discovered Dark Matter, it was found that when fired at high speeds would create a sort of ‘tear’ in spacetime. The tear could not be seen by the human eye, but emitted massive amounts of radiation and eviscerated any matter in its immediate vicinity. To this day we are still unsure why this is something restrictive to Dark Matter. After this, Dark Matter was almost exclusively used for the production of the DMS’s (Dark Matter Slug) because of it’s rarity.
In theory, Metaspace is an absolute mirror to our spacetime. So when the DMS rips into Metaspace, it continues to ‘travel’, but eventually loses too much energy and reenters our dimension in the form of ‘tearing a hole out the other side.’ The DMS then appears immediately out the new tear which can be mathematically calculated with the exact speed and direction the DMS traveled. The process is instantaneous and makes interstellar travel something very possible. Once this technology became available to the public, it allowed for the now widely available Translight-speed Transportation Terminals (or just trans terminals for short) and lead to the colonization of our Galaxy and others like it.
When humans learnt proper Cryostasis techniques, they took full advantage of it. Science fiction of old inspired the various generations that preceded it, and Cryostasis just seemed like an obvious step forward for mankind. Those technologies have now since been deemed obsolete with the concept and practice of Metastasis. Self-enclosed Metaspace generators can keep participants in a forced suspended animation more efficiently than drab ice would. Of course, it’s not a perfect system. If the person were to be moved in any way at all, their particles would ‘smear,’ stretching across space and intercepting into themselves. At that point, they’ve entered a sort of Schrodinger situation. They exist as both dead and alive until the Metaspace generator is shut down and the placement of the molecules leads to an excruciating death, resembling the film The Fly. This is why the stasis is performed in large vacuum sealed bubbles, on a gyro-stabilized space station hovering perfectly still and away from any large gravitational bodies.
Some more intentionally deadly uses for Metaspace is the Molecular Time Displacement Grenade, or Mole Grenade for short. When used, it will create a tiny tear through a loaded and gyrostabilizer micro DMS launcher which in turn will create a small, perfectly spherical spacetime displacement bubble. If you’re trapped in the bubble, you’ll be seperated from your own spacetime continuum, and see the area outside your bubble turn pitch black. This is because light itself has froze. Any matter that tries to escape the bubbles boundary you’ll be shredded into literal nothingness. From the outside, it’ll look as if the area the grenade exploded in will just vanish from existence, including the terrain and atmosphere. This creates a small void that pulls in the surrounding gases and creates a temporary pull. In reality, the atoms within that sphere aged till the point of vaporisation into pure energy, then that energy dissipated into nothing. You just saw the end of the Universe.
There is still a lot to discover about Metaspace like what all its applications are, is it safe to continue using and is there a reason for its existence?
Not a weapon, but a weapon manufacturer. 52 Hand Blocks is a subsidiary of VW Enterprises which are known for their inventive melee weaponry and civilian grade non-lethal weaponry. 52 Hand Blocks itself specializes in hand-to-hand combat related weaponry, like knuckledusters.
Qausium Boxing Tape
A relic of most species, boxing tape has been a cornerstone of hand-to-hand combat practices for almost every race. The image of having blood soaked rags wrapped around your knuckles is one of universal power. In this new galactic age, the idea still persists, so someone was bound to improve on it. Quasium Tape is usually used for mechanical repairs in times when tools are not on hand, but it’s non-adhesive counterpart is used for much more nefarious purposes. Due to it’s use in machinery, it has to stay together under a lot of stress, making it heavy. It was made popular by planet-bound gangs that needed a cheap and affordable weapon. Just so happens that wrapping dense, metallic cloth around your fists can make you quite the formidable opponent.
Gunknuckle
For those that feel like beating their enemy to death with brass knuckles wasn’t enough. 52 Hand Blocks introduces the Gunknuckle, a knuckle mold made from Industeel, with a t-shaped mechanism built to have the head of the T be parallel with your knuckles and the body between the ring and middle finger. The mechanism has a single chamber meant for a 0.32cm bullet, it’s trigger is actually button located by the thumb. To reload, you must open a hatch to insert a new bullet which then shuts when you close your fist. Generally, the barrel should be at point blank range when fired to maximize the effectiveness of the low caliber bullet.
