Plasma Rifles

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Plasma Rifles are weapons that use a small advanced energy storage device to power an electromagnetic accelerator that fires a pulse of plasma (i.e. very hot, very energetic excited matter).

The primary damage mechanism of these weapons is thermal transfer which causes horrendous burns, and usually immediate death, on living organisms.Plasma Rifles have a significant kinetic energy component. The ionized material is projected with sufficient momentum to cause some secondary impact damage in addition to causing high thermal damage.

Primarily used by a factions military personnel, Plasma Rifles are a bane to planetary governors. In the hands of untrained civilians, they can cause massive amounts of damage and loss of life due to "accidents". When employed by disaffected soldiers, other irregular units, or certain criminal elements, they are outright dangerous. There is a widespread demand on the Black Market for these weapons.