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"Hard light weapons? Nah, not those... Yet. Right now i specialize in ballistic weaponry. Yes, its primitive and archaic compared to what other manufacturers and worksmen offer, but to my people you cant go wrong with keeping things simple." he then shows you a sawed off double barrel shotgun*
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"Most people still use ballistic weapons, not as unpredictable as laser weaponry and much easier to make than hard light."
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"Energy weapons sound like they would be an assassin's dream weapon, what with no ballistic trace left on the victim."
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"Well, given that they are loud, expensive, and are totally unreliable I doubt they would."
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"Oh, theyre unreliable? Doesnt everybody know newer isnt always better?" he pulls out a base model replica of his personal weapon and sets it on the counter* "this heavy shotgun has been invented 60 years ago in my system, and variants are still used today amongst the populace!"
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Woods motions to his personal rifle, sitting on a table, magazines laying next to it. "That weapons platform was made thirty years ago, it's reliable, got decent stopping power and accurate up to one thousand meters on full auto, further on single shot. I can mount a number of attachments and sights, all in all a solid weapon. "
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"Not bad. Whichever force you serve must have a lot of money to make a rifle that accurate on full auto."
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"Well, NATO does tend to have a lot of funding, now that each member nation has an entire planet, some times multiple at its disposal."
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"Ah. My people do not have a lot of money, what with winning a rebellion eight years ago. Soon after this cannon of a shotgun got banned in fifty systems and three factions because the slug rounds actually can puncture space ship bulkheads. Its actually easy to produce... If you know what youre doing.