Ammunition

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Contents 1 Bullets 1.1 Anti Personnel 1.2 Armour Piercing 1.3 Standard 2 Grenades 2.1 Disruption 2.2 EMP 2.3 Fragmentation 2.4 Incendiary 2.5 Proxy 3 Prisms 4 Shotgun Ammo 4.1 Anti-Personnel Shotgun Shells 4.2 Rifled Slugs 5 Worms

Bullets

Anti Personnel

While nearly useless against armored targets, the Mite anti personnel round is devastatingly effective against flesh and blood. Nanites inside the head of the clip autonomically sense when the round has entered an organic target. First, the head of the bullet fragments into several dozen pieces. Immediately, they seek the highest local temperature and, using microscopic pockets of gas, propel themselves towards the warmth, and presumably, the vital organs.

Damage Type

High Explosive

Armour Piercing

The armor piercing round is not particularly effective against soft targets, but it's the round of choice when up against mechanized foes. The uranium tips provide considerable penetrating power, even to relatively weak slug throwers like the Talon M2A3 and the M-22 assault rifle. The bullet is the kid brother of the discarding sabot rounds used by tanks in the 21st century. Besides the incredibly dense uranium tip, the casing is lined with an advanced ballistic material that decreases drag, imparting even greater penetration.

Damage Type

Armour Piercing Impact

Standard

This .45 Standard Round is encased in a solid steel jacket, these rounds provide general purpose stopping power. Their main advantage of this ordnance is that it's extremely cheap to produce, and therefore readily available. No target type is either particularly vulnerable nor resistant to these rounds.

Damage Type

Standard Impact

Grenades

Disruption

The Disruption Grenade is the only profitable product of the UNN military contractor Flegel-Kraft. Amongst a host of eccentric, technically complex weapons, including the Sulfuric Putty Pancake and the Magnesium Tommygun (neither of which proved themselves in the field) Flegal-Kraft introduced this small, but deadly, explosive. Its explosive radius is much smaller than that of an incendiary or fragmentation grenade, but almost nothing can withstand the center of the explosion.

Damage	Intensity
Standard Impact	35

Radius

5

EMP

EMP grenades yield more impressive results, in terms of damaging or destroying nearby electronics, than an EMP rifle. However, they also come with a much lower rate of fire and a stratospherically higher cost per usage.

Damage	Intensity
EMP	3

Fragmentation

A standard fragmentation grenade. Damage is a combination of the concussive effects of the explosion and the resultant pieces of shrapnel.

Damage	Intensity
Standard Impact	20

Radius

10

Incendiary

This grenade releases a quick-dispersing white phosphorous. WP can cause cyanosis, intestinal pain, and perhaps coma or death. It generally only affects organic targets.

Damage	Intensity
Incendiary	15

Radius

10

Proxy

"The Radius IV proximity grenade utilizes no fewer than six separate methods of detection, from IR signature to EM field sampling to volumetric air displacement in order to make sure that it explodes with pinpoint accuracy and in the close vicinity of your enemies! Be sure to purchase our Radius Exclusion Emitter, coming soon, in order to make sure that your grenades exclude you and your squadmates from detonation!"

Damage	Intensity
Standard Impact	20

Radius

10

Prisms

The Syvintec crystal prisms were introduced in 2023 for high-density energy storage, and have been the storage medium of choice ever since for energy weapons. The silicon/vanadium crystal lattice stores energy in six orthagonal dimensions in the prism's compressed EM fields, allowing for completely efficent energy drain and recharge.

Shotgun Ammo

Anti-Personnel Shotgun Shells

These explosive pellets combine a chemical incendiary with a cluster of self-converting nanites to pack an extra kick. Not many organic targets can stand up to these for long. They are best used at relatively short range, as the pellets tend to spread.

Damage	Intensity
Incendiary	1

Rifled Slugs

The design of the basic shotgun slug hasn't changed much in the past century. A small, heavy piece of metal, delivered with a high kinetic energy, is a short, simple recipe for damage.

Damage	Intensity
Standard Impact	8

Worms

These disgusting things can be used as ammunition by exotic, annelid-based weaponry. The worms can be collected by using empty beakers on piles of worms.