Kig-Yar Dart Rifle

Original canon prosal (c) Duffle 2014. Permission given to AlphaWolf to add to Wiki.

Description
The Kig-Yar dart rifle is an easily convertable, multi purpose weapon. The barrel length can be easily adjusted for various combat ranges, and the stock can be removed for extreme close quarters scenarios. It has a built in scope with a target identifier and adjustable magnification. In addition, it can be smart-linked to any Kig-Yar head gear.

The weapon itself utilizes a fifteen round magazine, firing caseless flechette rounds. The weapon is a fusion of conventional ballistics and magnetic acceleration technology, hurling its projectiles using contained plasma detonations, before accelerating them to extraordinary speeds with electormagnets placed around the barrel.

The weapon is selective fire, allowing it to fire both in fully and semi automatic modes. Due to this fact, the power of the magnets is scalable. When only using the original propulsion, the recoil is quite maneagable, with it taking a significant portion of the magazine to pierce a Sangheili Major's shielding. On the flipside, when dialed all the way up, automatic fire is practically impossible for all but the strongest skirmisher to wield on fully, and even then it's unusable at anything past mid range.