Osberger XE1 Responder-Shotgun
Written by: Ripshot
So most of Osberger LES's firearms are licensed copies with a few tweaks to make them friendlier for corpsec and cops to use, but every once in a while they churn out something completely original. Or, at least original enough to dodge lawyers. The XE1 is the first of the company's major weapons designed entirely in-house, and it sets itself apart from other shotguns of its style by the simple virtue of having a drekkin' grenade-launcher mounted underneath.Kind of ironic they came to this solution considering the Alpha CQBS was made specifically because some people didn't think a grenade-launcher was suitable for room-clearning.Osberger called up his design-bureau to make a shotgun for low-intensity room clearing that had some kind of quickly accessed less-than-lethal capability. The bureau tinkered with some real fancy and real dumb gimmicks and gadgets, but winner was pretty elegant in this Ork's opinion: An inertia-driven semiautomatic bullpup that fed from a tube-magazine with a single-shot grenade launcher slung underneath, loaded with a flashbang, tear-gas or stinger grenade with a low-propellant charge and timed-fuse. The shotgun was intuitive to use and could easily be topped-off in the middle of a raid, while the grenade-launcher meant that preparing to send a grenade into a room before clearing it out no longer meant dropping your main weapon, and the low projectile-speed and lack of a percussive detonator meant that in a pinch, you could just knock the wind out of a suspect by launching a flashbang into their gut!
Stating the obvious, but don't try this with regular GL shells. Even if it doesn't blow you up with the poor chump on imact, the impact's gonna be hard enough to cause massive internal damage. I mean unless that's what you want..The XE1's still only seeing limited release to law-enforcement and security corps in the NC area, but Osberger's already releasing a civilian variation to the public with the grenade-launcher removed and the option to purchase a not-a-grenade-launcher 'underbarrel flare-gun' attachment in its place. I already got two!
Item type
Weapon, Ranged
Manufacturer
Rarity
10F
Weight
4.8 KG Unloaded
Dimensions
18" barrel, 27.6" total length
Base Price
1,220¥
Special: Concealability of +5
A Civilian-Variant can be purchased for 550¥ and an availability of 8R, which lacks the grenade-launcher of the LEO model but is otherwise identical.
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