Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2012 2:15:20 GMT -5
The purple gem glittered in the light, refracting it all around the room. Carmine turned it this way and that between his fingers, watching the light effects as he did so.
He'd done this for several of the gems he'd recieved from the jeweler in Satan City. He'd noticed fairly easily the refractive qualities of these gems and knew they were something special.
And now, he was sure he'd found the right one. He placed it on his workbench, and set to the next task - opening up his left arm and removing the central barrel mechanism for the Galleon Buster. It was an easy enough task, though one handed it became all the more delicate. Still, he had the gun down to its basic components within a few minutes.
Inside the gun, he'd set up an emitter for the energy blast, and two lenses through which to magnify and direct the blasts - one was a default, meant for basic shots, and one was thicker and offered a certain degree of magnification, meant for his charged shots. There was a simple binary mechanism to it that switched between the two lenses depending on what shot he was going to need.
Now, however, he was adding a third option to the mix, and as a result needed to change the whole firing mechanism out. He'd designed and built the new mechanism already - a device inspired by old Earth record-playing jukeboxes. He'd initially designed a rotary device, but it proved too bulky and brittle, prone to jamming and breaking and making it so that his arm couldn't change forms. However, after watching an old jukebox choose a record, pick it up, and place it gingerly on the player, he had his solution.
What he'd done was fabricate three new lens mounts, each with a magnetic ring on the outside. Inside the Buster, a small magnetic strip would slide along a track, snatch up the proper lens, and drop it into place. Then, it could switch them out quickly and smoothly.
All he needed now was to set the gem into it's lens mount, assemble the new mechanism, install it, and test it out. The process involved a lot of soldering, a lot of cursing, and several consecutive hours before finally Carmine was tightening up the last of the screws.
First he tested the fluidity of the change from Buster to Arm. It turned out that the change was smoother now than it had been before. Unexpected, but a nice surprise. Next, he activated the Buster for a basic shot. He fired one off at a can across his bedroom, and soon the can was toast. He nodded, set up a training dummy he'd taken from the training room. He switched to charged mode and fired, the training dummy falling into a few pieces.
Finally, he tested the third setting, new and purely theoretical. He set up a thick piece of scrap steel he'd had for a while just sitting around, aimed, and fired. The refractory qualities of the gem in his arm turned the single shot into a scattered blast, and the piece of steel was swiss cheesed slag.
He stepped out onto the deck, his favorite place to test out his newest contraptions, and fired off a series of shots, ranging from basic, to charged, to scattered to ensure that switching in rapid succession under stressful conditions would work. Pleased with the results, he returned to his room and recorded it all in his personal design journal.
[New Technique: Galleon Scattergun
A modification to the Galleon Buster, Carmine can turn the equivalent energy of a charged shot into a large cluster of smaller, but almost equally as powerful shots. Much like a shotgun, this setting is best used at a closer range if you wanted to do any real single-target damage, as the shots continue to spread over a distance. Though at a farther range, it likely becomes a decent crowd-control option.]
He'd done this for several of the gems he'd recieved from the jeweler in Satan City. He'd noticed fairly easily the refractive qualities of these gems and knew they were something special.
And now, he was sure he'd found the right one. He placed it on his workbench, and set to the next task - opening up his left arm and removing the central barrel mechanism for the Galleon Buster. It was an easy enough task, though one handed it became all the more delicate. Still, he had the gun down to its basic components within a few minutes.
Inside the gun, he'd set up an emitter for the energy blast, and two lenses through which to magnify and direct the blasts - one was a default, meant for basic shots, and one was thicker and offered a certain degree of magnification, meant for his charged shots. There was a simple binary mechanism to it that switched between the two lenses depending on what shot he was going to need.
Now, however, he was adding a third option to the mix, and as a result needed to change the whole firing mechanism out. He'd designed and built the new mechanism already - a device inspired by old Earth record-playing jukeboxes. He'd initially designed a rotary device, but it proved too bulky and brittle, prone to jamming and breaking and making it so that his arm couldn't change forms. However, after watching an old jukebox choose a record, pick it up, and place it gingerly on the player, he had his solution.
What he'd done was fabricate three new lens mounts, each with a magnetic ring on the outside. Inside the Buster, a small magnetic strip would slide along a track, snatch up the proper lens, and drop it into place. Then, it could switch them out quickly and smoothly.
All he needed now was to set the gem into it's lens mount, assemble the new mechanism, install it, and test it out. The process involved a lot of soldering, a lot of cursing, and several consecutive hours before finally Carmine was tightening up the last of the screws.
First he tested the fluidity of the change from Buster to Arm. It turned out that the change was smoother now than it had been before. Unexpected, but a nice surprise. Next, he activated the Buster for a basic shot. He fired one off at a can across his bedroom, and soon the can was toast. He nodded, set up a training dummy he'd taken from the training room. He switched to charged mode and fired, the training dummy falling into a few pieces.
Finally, he tested the third setting, new and purely theoretical. He set up a thick piece of scrap steel he'd had for a while just sitting around, aimed, and fired. The refractory qualities of the gem in his arm turned the single shot into a scattered blast, and the piece of steel was swiss cheesed slag.
He stepped out onto the deck, his favorite place to test out his newest contraptions, and fired off a series of shots, ranging from basic, to charged, to scattered to ensure that switching in rapid succession under stressful conditions would work. Pleased with the results, he returned to his room and recorded it all in his personal design journal.
[New Technique: Galleon Scattergun
A modification to the Galleon Buster, Carmine can turn the equivalent energy of a charged shot into a large cluster of smaller, but almost equally as powerful shots. Much like a shotgun, this setting is best used at a closer range if you wanted to do any real single-target damage, as the shots continue to spread over a distance. Though at a farther range, it likely becomes a decent crowd-control option.]
