Creature:Escarilan/Technology

Escarilan technology is advanced and varied, with a variety of unusual systems far beyond the capabilities of the average Tuurosian empire, excluding major powers.

Guass Weapons
High-powered railguns are extraordinarily popular with the Escarilans, and many varieties of heavy weapon systems have been developed using Guass-Technology, such as the VT-16 Rail-Rifle. Though these hand-held weapons require external battery packs, they are utterly devastating when employed against enemy forces, and are capable of penetrating heavy tank armour, at which point the rounds promptly detonate inside the target. Although the earlier Rail-Rifle models were subject to severe overheating, the modern designs are far less subjective to exploding in the hands of it's wielder.

Ion Rifles
Initially developed as a primary weapon system for the that is capable of engaging enemies at range with high energy ion streams, vaporising flesh and metal with equal ease, the Ion-Cannon and it's smaller, hand-held Ion-Rifle equivalent are rapid-fire weapons used primarily to deal with large numbers of enemies quickly. Highly inaccurate, but so quick in terms of fire-rate, they are commonly employed against, and it's bioforms.

Plasma Guns
Favoured weapons to deal with slave-raiders, and pirate groups, Plasma weapons often sit as the medium between Ion and Guass weaponry. Powerful, and with a medium fire-rate, these fancy flashlights boast an utterly insane range, and embody the Escarilan strategy of "don't-let-the-enemy-reach-melee-range" perfectly.

Slug-Throwers
Rarer to see than other forms of Escarilan weapon technology, Slug-Throwers are often large and heavy. The TA-13 Heavy Bolt-Cannon is the most popular example of an Escarilan Slug-Thrower, a powerful antipersonnel weapon that fires miniaturized armour-piercing rockets (called "bolts") that have a delayed impact fuse. The projectiles it fires are designed to punch through armour and then explode, causing considerable, if not immediately fatal, damage to whatever the thing hits, since whatever's hit is usually blown the hell apart.

They are usually the guns traded to alien empires, as they are the mechanically simplest.