Osberger American-1080

Written by: Ripshot

Y'ever hear a gattling-gun firing at full speed? That satisfying BRRRRRRRRRRRRRT of something, somewhere, getting their day ruined by sixty-five rounds a second? Did you, like me, realise you can also hear a similar noise from inside the nearby Central Prison? Don't worry, Lone Star haven't lost their shit and started executing inmates with a minigun (yet). What you're hearing is their newest toy from Osberger Law-Enforcement Systems, the American-1080. And to my surprise, it was the traditionalists in Osberger's design-bureau that cooked this weird little guy up.
The 1080 is a light-machinegun that uses a slick new proprietary feed-system and rotating twin-barrel mechanism, to throw bullets downrange at a lovely 1,800 rounds a minute, with a fancy bolt-delay system if you want to dial it back down to a more 'reasonable' 1000 RPM. In order to keep this thing fed for longer than a couple of seconds, they designed a fancy rotating pan-magazine to hold a chunky two-hundred rounds, but that was too heavy for the operator and the gun to handle, so they reduced the caliber to a cute little .17 Kligne light-pistol cartridge, and the reduction in weight was good enough that they could fit a fancy cooling-system on top and still come just under eight kilos.

"Just" eight kilos?

— Cr4nk

Quit yer whinin', you weren't gonna be firing that thing while moving anyhow. Besides, a gun like this belongs on a pintle mount, what with the recoil shaking your arm to pieces.

— SoCo

Now I know what you're thinking: Who'd be afraid of a gun chambered in such a piddy little cartridge? You, that's who. One .17K cartridge might bounce off your dermal-weave, but when a one-second burst is gonna throw thirty of the things your way, you're gonna duck and cover all the same, chummer. Central Prison keeps a few of these bad boys with two drums a piece, one loaded with gel-rounds and another with regular FMJ rounds, last time they had a riot it took just a few bursts of those things to knock all the fight out of the prisoners.

The physical and psychological effects of multiple impacts from this weapon are even worse if you've got a cyberlimb, or any other piece of external cyberware bolted onto your skeleton. All those impacts in one place will rattle the hardware all the way through, enough to dislodge mountings and cause microfractures in bonded bones.

— Frangelico

What's our best option for preventing that?

— Null Kit

Inserting additional shock-resistant components onto the cyberware would suffice, as would tightly wrappping thick fabrics around key areas.

— Frangelico

Not getting shot also helps.

— Nocte

Item type

Weapon, Ranged

Manufacturer

Osberger Law-Enforcement Systems

Rarity

12F

Weight

7.9 KG

Dimensions

22" barrel, 41" total length

Base Price

3,100¥

Type

Light Machinegun

Accuracy

5(6)

Damage

6P

AP

-2

Mode

SA/BF/FA

RC

2(3)

Ammo

50(C) or 200(D)

Standard Upgrades

Laser-Sight, Shockpad

This gun follows the same rules regarding suppressing fire as other miniguns (Street Lethal, p. 41).