Big Kill

The Kiloton Dynamics Big Kill is a single-action revolver, created for the private and public sector by the Kiloton Dynamics weapons company. This big-frame wheelgun is associated with police forces across the Aleph Null System, grizzled detectives with half a clue and a dog-ended cigarette, and hunting weapons for small and medium game.

• Modelled off of centuries of human-made six-shooter designs.
• Models come in a variety of chamberings:
  • .50 KD Opus - An enormous cartridge with a heavy lead slug, reducing the number of chambers from 6 to 5.
  • .44 KD Magnum - The most popular chambering amongst private buyers, and most brand recognisable amongst the public.
  • .357 KD Revolver - A standard of police forces across the Aleph Cluster. Revolvers in this chambering can also accept .38 KD Special ammunition.
  • .38 KD Special - Intended for revolvers made with lighter, cheaper constructions and materials.
• Battery powered, toggle-able Mass Driver runs parallel to the barrel, making bullets fly faster and further.
  • A 'Capacitor' model which utilises some of the recoil to charge a smaller internal battery is also popular amongst private customers.
• Offers a variety of barrel Lengths:
  • 4 Inch - Snub-nosed revolver, concealable and short.
  • 6 Inch - Average sized barrel, and the golden standard.
  • 8 Inch - Longer, for when you gotta reach out and touch someone.
  • 10 Inch - Now you're compensating for something.
• Middle and front iron sights for rapid target acquisition.
• Three firing modes: Safe, Mass-Driver, and Single.
• Heavy enough to clobber someone with if push comes to shove.

This range of pistols fires a bullet composed of copper-jacketed lead or steel, held in a brass case containing an active chemical propellant, and a primer on the base. When struck, the primer releases a spark which ignites the chemical - creating a pressure which pushes the bullet out of its case and through the barrel.

If the user has the gun's firing mode set to Mass Driver, the bullet moves through a mass driver coiling around the barrel - propelled even faster. Batteries for the mass driver are held in the handgrip and inserted much like a magazine. One battery is good for thirty mass-driven shots.

A popular modification that became officially adopted by Kiloton Dynamics is the 'Capacitor', which changes the exchangeable battery for a smaller one which is charged by kinetic energy gathered from recoil. It takes five shots to make enough charge for one Mass-Driver shot, for a total of 6 shots stored in the battery¹⁾.

Bullets are held in a rotating cylinder with a hammer resting behind it, and the cylinder can be accessed by pressing a button in front of the trigger guard and pulling the barrel downwards to breaking the gun open. This action raises the cylinder and pushes spent cartridges out to allow quick replacement, and raises unfired cartridges. The pistol can then be closed and hammer cocked.

When the trigger is pulled, the hammer comes back on the cylinder, hitting the bullet. Some of the recoil is utilised to spin the cylinder, in addition to spring assemblies inside of the revolver. The user then has to pull the hammer back manually for the next shot. The safety for the gun interposes a sheet of metal between the cylinder and the hammer, preventing discharge and locking the hammer in place.

The different chamberings of the pistol are denoted along the barrel with a letter after the 'KD-BK' stamp and numbers. S for .38 Special, R for .357 Revolver, M for .44 Magnum, and O for .50 Opus. Due to similarities in bullet design, is possible to use a .357 barrel to fire .38 ammunition, but not the other way around.

The Kiloton Dynamics Big Kill revolvers came from Greaseheart designs which go back for centuries. Before the advent of space travel, it is believed that human designers had believed to have perfected the design of a six-shooting. After leaping into the great unknown and developing other technologies further, the antiquated weapon fell out of favour with people for lasers, particle blasters, and other exotic sidearm designs.

Thus the designers at weapons company Kiloton Dynamics, famed for working with mass accelerators for space elevators and large starship weapons decided to scale down and bring the revolver with it. Miniaturising a mass driver lead to a thicker barrel and a distinct profile which follows the cylinder and tapers off with the barrel, and a considerable increase in weight adapted to absorbing the recoil.

Even so, powerful chamberings of the Big Kill like the .50 Opus demand a trained shooter - anything less is asking for embarrassment.

Capacitor models of the Big Kill absorb some of the gun's recoil back into a smaller battery. This gives the gun an ounce of resistance when moved around, making it feel unnaturally heavy when drawn, but easy to stabilise once pointed for distance shooting.

The Kiloton Dynamics Big Kill is sold at most reputable gun shops in the Aleph Cluster for AC1500.00 to AC2250.00, depending on chambering, additions, secondhand status and wear.