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LASER CARBINE
Midrange, Silent, Accurate, Incendiary, Blinding, Attenuating, Overheat, Fragile
Fibre laser punch beam and collimator. This weapon is uncommon in civilian or urban engagements, because firing a laser in the absence of protective eyewear or specialised combat helms can blind everyone in the vicinity. The military grade laser has good effect on any single target, human, organic, synthetic, exoarmour or even war mechs. Whilst some specifications permit variable yields, this laser is calibrated to melt everything. In environments with a lot of debris (eg sandstorms, or occasionally even some smoke-filled urban battlegrounds) flecks and ghost image backscatter can attenuating laser targeting, causing beam distortion. Continuous wave mode operation of the diode head can also lead to thermal bloom.
QM: as before, you can attempt to describe a futuristic weapon of your own, eg pistol, shotgun, sniper rifle, DMR, smg etc, grenade launcher, rail gun, hehe. I will see if I have any appropriate pictures...