🔫 Arasaka Prototype Variable Assault Rifle
📋 Details
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Weapon |
| Category | Weapon |
| Subcategory | Ranged Weapon |
| Manufacturer | Arasaka |
| Quality | Excellent |
| Price | 15000eb (Super Luxury) |
| Market | Mister K’s Midnight Market |
| Availability | Booth D2 |
Arasaka 15,000eb (Super Luxury)
During the 4th Corporate War, Arasaka “commissioned” two captured Rhinemetall engineers to design an automatic weapon with railgun capabilities. However, by the time they had produced a batch of prototypes and shipped them off for hands-on testing in Tokyo the project had to be shelved due to their workshop in the Night CIty’s Arasaka Tower annihilation via nuclear fire.
Most versions of the AVAR found in the wild are missing at least one of the two needed conversion parts for the railgun mode. To convert the weapon, the normal receiver is switched out with an electromagnetic one and the barrel is switched out with a heat-resistant one. While this change locks the weapon out of autofire and makes it less accurate, it is made up for by the railgun mode’s armor-piercing capability.
Mechanics: The Arasaka Variable Assault Rifle is an Excellent Quality Exotic Assault Rifle with a unique alternate fire railgun mode. Assuming you have both needed conversion parts, you can switch between its standard and special railgun variant mode when combat begins (before Initiative is rolled), anytime outside of combat, or in combat with an Action. In its special railgun mode, the weapon is incapable of Autofire and Aimed Shots, but damage dealt by this weapon ignores the target’s armor entirely if it is lower than SP7. Armor with SP7 or higher is still interacted with as normal. Additionally, whenever fired in its railgun mode, a charge is drained from the weapon’s eight-shot rechargeable (1 hour) 50eb (Costly) battery pack in addition to a bullet being fired from the magazine. The battery pack can be reloaded separately from the gun’s magazine with an Action. If fired in railgun mode without any charges in its battery pack, or without a properly installed battery pack, the weapon fires instead as a typical Excellent Quality Exotic Assault Rifle.
The 15,000eb price point of the weapon assumes that it comes with both of its conversion parts. For each missing part in an AVAR at the time of sale, the price is lowered by 5,000eb. Individual conversion parts and the base weapon are worth 5,000eb (Luxury) when sold alone.
Pick-up or Browse at Booth D2