Shard Rifle

The Shard Rifle is a standard issue weapon for most Seekers and is a favored weapon among many for its reliability and near-infinite ammunition.

Origins and Design
The shard rifle was created by the Seekers to answer the issue of limited ammunition and power. It would hardly be worth it to face the dangers in Dark Space if the cost of the ammunition and energy necessary to fire it was greater than the resources being recovered. The shard rifle answers both problems with a novel solution.

The ammunition is manufactured within the gun from raw materials that can be found anywhere in the field, be it pieces of useless junk or debris, and it utilizes a very small amount of matter to create the projectile which it fires. The projectile is fired at sub-luminal speeds to deal out an impressive amount of damage to an enemy. To achieve this, the round is fired from a rail gun system that suspends the projectile in an electromagnetic field before firing.

The rail gun is powered by a Pulse Collection Device which gathers trace amounts of energy from N-Space constantly and feeds it into a series of capacitors which provide the number of shots the weapon can fire. Once the capacitors are discharged the wielder must either wait for the cells to recharge or replace them with a fully charged pack.

Some seekers have customized their shard rifles for different methods of fire and various charge counts.