Black-Powder Pistol

About the Black-Powder Pistol

A relic in the age of tibanna gas, the black-powder pistol persists on backwater worlds and in the hands of those who cherish the old, dirty ways of killing. It ignites a chemical charge to hurl a ball of metal, trailing smoke and thunder, and though it is slow to reload and modest in its reach, it needs no power cell and answers to nothing more sophisticated than a spark and a steady hand. Frontier settlers, ceremonial duelists, and the deliberately anachronistic carry them, some for want of anything better and some for the sheer character of the thing. The solid round it throws pays no mind to energy shielding, a quirk that occasionally makes an antique deadlier than its era suggests. It is a slow weapon for a patient shooter, and its bark still turns heads.