Osberger LE79 Dory PDW
Written by: Ripshot
Back before the awakening, there was a trend of arms-manufacturers making 'Personal Defence Weapons', compact submachineguns chambered in high-velocity, almost-assault-rifle cartridges to put armor-defeating capabilities into a small package for vehicle-crews, SWAT teams and other folk working in cramped quarters to use. The fad died pretty quickly when they realised you could just make an ultracompact assault-rifle instead, but that's not stopped some manufacturers from giving it a try, including Mr. Osberger and his design beureau with their recent undertaking: The 'Dory', a bullpup PDW that's as cute as its name, but has more going for it than you'd think The Dory's design is actually pretty simple for what it's got going on: Its receiver is a tricked-out variation of a design I've been told predates the Awakening by nearly a century, converted into a bullpup and bulked up to handle the stress of Osberger's proprietary 4.9x29mm cased cartridge, which is fed into it with a side-mounted transparent mag, supposedly to make it easy as possible for its user to check how much they've got left before they need to reload. The 4.9 cartridge itself is on the small side and tends to overpenetrate a little too clean for most people's tastes, but it punches clean holes through body-armor a lot better than most gats of its size, enough that smaller corpsec groups have been issuing them for on-site security to buy a little more time against serious threats (IE, us) until HTR gets its ass over.Problem is, thing's got a mad cyclic-rate for its weight. Some underpaid rentacop pulls this out and doesn't keep it in semi-auto, he's gonna have to explain to his boss why he shot up everything except the intruder...Weirdly enough, the ones you see on the black market are in all likelihood not Osberger manufacturer. The design-schema got leaked a few weeks before its production-run and the basic design's simple enough that solo gunsmiths can crank these bad boys out to an appreciable degree of quality, minus some of the electronic gizmos you see on the factory-made stuff. The ammo's a little more difficult to get though, since the civilian market's only getting an anemic low-penetration variant pretty much everywhere outside the CAS, so the the 'hot' ammo's going at a pretty high premium.
Manufacturer
Rarity
14F
Weight
2.8 KG unloaded
Dimensions
11.4" barrel, 21.0" total length
Base Price
990¥
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