Lore Bits #2 - Scramforce Carbonfibre Revolver and Selachii Chimaeric Rounds
aka “The Tidebreaker” - Written By MisterSteel

TideBreaker Revolver

Side View



The Tidebreaker is a one of a kind multi-caliber revolver belonging to Nanami Katachi, custom designed to readily alternate between specialized rounds that allow her to adjust the degree of force and density. It is considered one of a kind as the gun and the bullets were created by fierce competitors, the Russian ballistics turned aerospace company 'Tupolev Inc.' and the Italian firearm and ammunition company 'Selachii Arms' and it was only due to President Carol's influence that they collaborated. The two company’s products are otherwise incompatible.
Riptide wielding her TideBreaker
The revolver uses a high-energy battery cell that creates a contained plasma detonation with a variable power output. In previous, larger models, this would launch a jet of hot plasma towards the target. Instead, they are used to activate and propel the solid slug rounds at velocities as slow as 100 meters per second, up to a muzzle speed approaching 5,000 meters per second. The sturdy carbon-fiber lattice maintains the gun’s integrity for these high powered shots and a small circuit board allows for it to automatically gauge the density and weight of the active round and adjust energy requirements accordingly.
All rounds have been modified to fire instead of from a chemical explosion, to that of an ‘electrical’ plasma explosion. They come in several varieties and can be selected depending on the needs of the current situation, granting the user finer control over whether they merely want to stun the target or if necessary, shoot to kill and potentially… disintegration.
TideBreaker Battery Holder and Ejector
Bonnethead rounds are little more than airsoft BB pellets, stinging, but can ricochet in controlled patterns.
Scoophead rounds act like rubber bullets, with a low muzzle speed to reduce injury to a target.
Hammerhead rounds fire at low velocity and detonate on impact to provide a powerful kinetic knockback.

Sand and Sawtooth rounds disperse into buckshot with rounded and sharpened shrapnel respectively.
Cookiecutter rounds similarly use shrapnel, but have a circular pattern, used to punch holes around locks.
Basking rounds fire a slew of magnetized buckshot that coalesces after a delay to ensnare fleeing targets.

Lemon rounds are hybrid rounds with an electrical charge acting like a long-distance, short-duration taser.

Lantern rounds have a two-fold firing, discharging a flash powder before igniting it to act as a flashbang.
Gummy rounds act as trackers, firing a soft molten slug with a unique, non-lethal radioactive isotope
Whale rounds act as blanks, providing a bright muzzle flash and loud bang purely for noise/intimidation.

Mako rounds are one of the few ‘true’ energy type rounds, producing a plasma shot solely from the battery.

Thresher rounds have a high velocity but small surface area and are meant to act like sniper bullets.
Tiger rounds use quick detonation conventional slugs, and switch to semi-automatic firing.
Great White’s are considered ‘guaranteed lethal’ utilizing explosive ammo and the maximum (safe) velocity.
‘Megalodon’ shots are ‘just’ Great White rounds… fired after overloading the battery cell, turning the firearm into a one-use wave motion cannon.

<<Writer's Notes: So, Scramforce (the name of the weapon) is a play on Scramjet, the 'basic' design for jet engines. Carbonfibre, on top of being dense and hard, references carbon and fiber (i.e a fabric or lattice), and jetfuel is predominantly made up of complex 'chains' of 'hydrocarbons'
Revolver references a revolver (surprise surprise!)
Selachii references the scientific clade that sharks are under.
Chimaeric references both Chimaera, a type of fish closely related to sharks, but also the chimera, a singular creature that has aspects of several others.
Rounds references the rounds of firearms (what a twist!)