Vepr Relics - Red Marquis

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Vepr® Relics - Red Marquis Railgun Heavy Plasma-machine Pistol

Ammunition :
> Standard - STO-7 Mini Tungsten Handgun Ammunition
Magazine : 30 rnd
Range : Low
Rate of fire : 990 RPM
Firing modes : Semi/Full
Fires Flaming ammunition

An update to our popular Arkadex handgun, the Marquis is a bulky, PDW-like gun. Models without the stock do not exist. The Marquis serves an entirely different purpose however - unlike the original, it is loud and has a very high power. It includes a grip safety and an included T1A Microdot.

Second weapon in Red series.

Power. Compactness. Accuracy. Red Marquis - Only from Vepr Relics.

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“The Alderes device has been armed and aimed. Five minutes until discharge. Retreat to the nearest pickup zone and head back to orbiting stations. The war is over. Beware, if you do not get out in time, you will d-”

The radio crackles and dies. The air, still hazy and foul smelling from the earlier combat, is sparkling in a myriad of bright colours. Hulks of shiny behemothic machines and corpses of armoured troops lay scattered across a freshly burned field next to a lake. I could feel cold drops on my skin and tapping on my steel-plentamum helmet; it is raining...

What did the operator say? Something about the war... and getting out. Unfortunately, the nearest drop zone was about ten kilometres away. There is no way I can reach it in time.

I sit down on the ground next to a -miraculously- still standing, green tree, staring at the horizon. One of the suns has set, the other close above the ice-peaked mountains. It would be quite a beautiful day, if of course this planet was not doomed to destruction in a few minutes along with all of it’s inhabitants.

The city in the distance is still glimmering from the thousands of explosions in the air above it. Reflecting light from tall and proud skyscrapers - it’s still standing despite thousands of tons of ordnance being dropped on it, of all kinds. I could only imagine what sort of chaos would be there right now.

A thin, nearly unnoticeable beam of bright orange light pierces the clouds from above straight into the center of the aforementioned city. As this happens, a very bright orange-red sphere begins appearing at the bottom. Slowly swallowing up the center of the city... the scrapers are gone, and now the suburbs. The bubble creeps closer and closer, growing in size, swallowing up everything within it and turning it into a blazing inferno. Now it’s not just a small light on the horizon. It’s comes closer, and closer. It’s beginning to eat away at the forest.

The forest is now gone. The bubble is massive, or rather, the raging orange-red sphere. I can see the violent waves inside it... I can almost hear the screams of the perished and burned. And I’m next.

It’s close... it’s very close. There is no point in running. I watch as it engulfs the lake. It’s no more than a mile away from me, as this blazing wall rushes towards me like a tsunami.

Oh yes, I remember what the operator said... the war is over...

// ECHO® : 13:03 TER Time, Esterus 23 2910, Spire System, Spire II //
// ECHO® brought to you by the Dahl Corporation : I only get paid if I survive, and I like being paid //

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Credits:
-Cami - m249 shading
Needless to say PDN for the text.