Rain of Iron

From Too Human Database

AesirCorp engineers, under the directions of Tyr designed a radically different approach to the traditional method of a magazine holding the slugs. Their method, instead, placed the slugs sequentially in the barrel, one behind another. The slugs' propellant was placed in between the slugs themselves. Firing this type of weapon was done electronically. Electrical pulses were sent down rails that lined the inside of the barrel and the propellant behind the slug was ignited. The heat from the ignition of the propellant expands the slug behind the initial slug sealing the barrel. Because the propellant was inside the barrel, behind each slug, no casings holding the propellant needed to be expended, eliminating the bulky mechanical apparatus needed to do so. As a result, the firing rate of the firearm increased exponentially. Initial tests indicated that a firing rate of million rounds of slug ammunition per minute was possible. Despite the formidable increase in firepower, there are several drawbacks. Reloading required replacing the entire barrel of the weapon with another full barrel. Furthermore, due to the greatly increased firing rate, new users often found themselves having run through their entire supply of barrels rather quickly. This was remedied by releasing weapons equipped with this technology only to veterans who did not waste ammunition so recklessly. Interestingly enough, humanity has once again designed and created weapons utilizing similar technology under the name of Metal Storm[1] in the early 21st century.