Date: Fri, 06 Feb 1998 10:39:57 -0800 (PST)
From: Patrick Rollens <rollens@YOUR-NET.COM>
Subject: [SW-RPG] STATS: G-12 Equalizer
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Equalizer Personal Weapons Platform
Model:  BlasTech G-12 Equalizer
Type: Personal Weapons Platform
Scale: Character
Skill: Blaster
Ammo:  50 (25 per barrell)
Cost: 1400
Availability: X
Fire Rate:  2
Range: 20-80/160/200
Damage:  7D
Notes:  Plastoid harness provides +1D to resist damage
against energy weapons on torso.  DEX is -1D.

Capsule:  The Equalizer was BlasTech's first and last
venture into the personal weapons platform market.  An
older design, the Equalizer saw extensive use in the last
months of the Clone Wars, but it is not an antiquated or
elderly model.  In fact, the Equalizer is still the best of
several types of personal weapons platforms.  It was
intended to turn a lone trooper into a heavy weapons
platform, but without the bulk of a walker frame, such as in
the AT-PT design.
        A small backpack power cell rides on the user's
back.  It is connected to dual blaster barrells mounted on
the user's shoulders.  A complex plastoid harness braces
the Equalizer on the user's upper torso, allowing the back
and legs to absorb the recoil.  Controls to fire the Equalizer
are mounted on the user's waist.  To fire, the person need
only reach down to dual firing sticks and depress either
trigger.  The Equalizer will not fire both barrells at the same
time, and trying often causes a hangfire.  However many
troopers have panicked and jerked both triggers at the
same time, resulting in their untimely death when the
Equalizer jams.  An advantage is that it has a relatively rapid
fire rate, able to fire both barrells in less than five seconds.
        BlasTech G-12 Equalizers are most often seen in
planetary militias, rebel cells, and occasional mercenary
group.  The image of a rebel dissenter, with an Equalizer
unit mounted on his shoulders, mowing down Imperial
stormtroopers became a common sight in the holomedia.
        Soon after the Emperor came to power the
Equalizer lost popularity.  BlasTech had orders to fill for its
new E-11 rifle, and it ceased production of the Equalizer.
The new repeating blasters became the most popular
heavy weapons of the day.  Gradually the G-12 Equalizer
faded into the background.

But darned if they aren't powerful!  Just imagine a pirate
boarding party using Equalizers, or perhaps a planetary sec
force firing indiscriminately into a crowd of rioting citizens....
Anyway, please tell me what you think.  We're snowed in
today, and I have nothing to do but sit around and make up
stats!  :-(

Patrick
rollens@your-net.com