Light Repeating Blaster

About the Light Repeating Blaster

Splitting the difference between a rifle and a full crew-served gun, the light repeating blaster gives a single trooper a weapon that spits bolts fast enough to suppress an enemy squad without needing a tripod to do it. It is heavier and hungrier than a standard rifle, and the two-handed frame demands a firm stance to keep the fire on target, but in exchange the wielder can lay down a stream of bolts that pins heads down and chews through cover. Mercenaries, heavy-weapons troopers, and defenders holding a chokepoint favor it as a mobile source of volume fire, the gun that lets a small unit punch above its numbers. It lacks the sheer torrent of an emplaced repeater, but its portability is the point: a fighter can advance behind their own suppressive fire, carrying the weight of a squad's firepower on a single set of shoulders.