The Czerka 912 Compact is a unique design, designed for troops who have limited transportation and storage space. It has no shoulder stock or bipod, nor does it have provisions for the fitting of such items. It is quite short, only little over a meter in length when in the firing mode, and only about the length of an E11 with the stock folded when sacked up for transport. This is due to the radical, telescoping barrel design. The focusing lenses, the forward half of the galven circuitry and the cooling system are mounted in a large canister that retracts and extends via a hydraulic piston. It has a slightly shorter than average range, but is also slightly more powerful than your typical light repeater. It was originally meant for the bounty hunter market, but fell flat due to the high cost and maintenance difficulties.
 
 

The Kashan Industries B-12/r repeating blaster is another, less popular, variant of the B-12 blaster rifle. At the cost of firepower, the B-12/r gives the user multiple, rapid-fire, shots. Unlike other repeating blasters of its scale, the B-12/r has an optional power jack, for plugging into a back pack battery or a power generator for extended firepower.
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A weapon used when greatly outnumbered and one does not have to worry about hitting allies or the mess made. Every time fired this rifle produces multiple bolts that can be spread by moving the rifle rapidly left-right, best towards the enemy. Also when an enemy has great protection you can count that at least one bolt gets through.
 
 

This is one of the standard issue weapons of the CSA's vaunted ESPO forces, and one of the most common and popular automatic rifles in action today. Despite it's popular nickname, it is not a true riot gun. Sharing the durability and reliability of the rest of the BlasTech line, the ES-23's control layout and maintenance drill are quickly learned if one has mastered the E11 rifle or E14 carbine. The biggest difference lies in placement of the special, oversized powercell on the underside of the weapon. They are well designed, fitted with a vertical foregrip to compensate for the fact that most shot are not made with the shoulder stock. This means that it can provide an incredible amount of fire in a relatively small package. Contrary to most descriptions, it is actually no more inaccurate than an E11, and not much heavier.
 
 

The SoroSuub RB-407 is the standard issue medium repeating blaster to the Imperial Army (Expansion and Inner Rim regions). Like other medium repeaters, it has been over shadowed by light and heavy models. Designed to fill both the role of mounted or positional gun, and platoon or company level support weapon, it is considered to be a compromise, but a good one. In the fixed gun role, it can fired from the integral bipod, or mounted to a wide variety of pintal and tripod mounts, meaning that it can be used as a commander's gun on armoured vehicles, or as a door gun on airial transports. In the infantry role, it's fixed stock and bipod are essential. Meant to be fired from the bipod due to eight, the RB-407 is capable of being fired like a big rifle by a strong enough individual. Despite this versatility, it has earned the unenviable nickname of "pig", due to it's reputation for being temperamental (all of these problems are corrected by using proper ammunition and maintenance procedures) and it's considerable weight.
 
 

The RB-XI is the personal weapon of choice of the Imperial Intelligence Adjustments agent, Colonel Flac Drivin. The Tech deparment of Intelligence worked for months just developing the concept behind such a powerful, hand-held weapon. It took eleven versions of the weapon before a safe power source could be developed, all of the first ten prototypes of the weapon overloaded and exploded, killing the tech operating it each time. The final production, the RB-XI, features several unique power converters and internal mini couplings to regulate the power flow, thus preventing an overload. The power pack attaches underneath the barrel, "hugging" it, and not giving the repeater a bulky extension that could get in the way during a critical moment. Like most personal repeating blasters, the RB-XI is a little more than a meter in length and weighs quite a bit, it is definately a two-handed weapon meant for use with a shoulder strap. The sighting macroscope aids in all medium to long range shots, almost insuring a direct hit on the target. The motion detector display was a concept taken from an elite group of Imperial commandos serving out in the Harvlis Sector.
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The RB-XII is a new repeater that has recently been introduced into the Imperial Army. The original prototype weapon, the RB-XI, designed by Imperial Intellience was field tested and used in actual combat situations by one of their Adjustments agents, Colonel Flac Drivin.

The Empire contracted both BlasTech and Merr-Sonn to create a newer version of the weapon with a grenade launcher. As a result, both BlasTech and Merr-Sonn are manufacturing identical copies of the RB-XII. Merr-Sonn finished their first prototypes nearly a month before the return of Emperor Palpatine, leaving BlasTech baffled. By some miracle of fate, BlasTech turned out an exact duplicate of Merr-Sonn's version only a week after Merr-Sonn begin manufacturing them in semi-large numbers.

These weapons were sold to the Empire in small numbers, only a few Army and stormtrooper divisions were ever issued the weapon.

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The Repeater Uzi is not a very popular or widely known model. They are a very unique design, able to fire off a burst of five shots with a single pull of the trigger in such rapid succession that its almost like a continuous beam of energy. The burst usually hits all in the same spots because it fires off the rounds faster than most users can move it in an attempt to spray an area with fire. They are popular with gangsters and pirates and can be devastating in confined areas. Some elite military units have taken to using the T-13 for raids on enemy bases, ships, etc and have come out on the winning end most of the time.
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A particuarly devastating weapon favoured by the least subtle of bounty hunters, and others who put guns over intelligence. The TT-4 multi-pulse blaster cannon is produced by Aturo Arms, one of the small rim corperations trying to get a foot hold in a competative market place. The TT-4 was designed as an infantry support weapon for military units, a smaller, lighter, replacement for the popular E-web. Aturo's designers worked on the principle that by greatly increasing the fire rate of the weapon more damage could be done by a lighter, cheaper, weapon and created a revolutionary cooling system allowing an devastating barrage of fire to be unleashed with every shot. However the new system meant that the TT-4 suffered from several design flaws that prevented its acceptance by the military. The first was that the weapon is difficult to use with out considerable (and, in the eyes of the military, expensive) training, the second, that while it was intended to be carried and fired by a single trooper the cannon is heavy and cumbersome, and finally and most importantly the new cooling system is prone to shutting the weapon down to prevent overheating, causing a distressingly high failure rate. The origional run of TT-4's was sold off quietly on the private market, while Arturo's design team works on the solving the problems for the 4a. A harness and mount for the TT-4 is soon to be released, making it easier and less tiring to carry and fire.

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The X1 Assault rifle was produced by Arakyd Corporation in the years following the Battle of Endor. No one quite knows for whom the rifles were created but evidence points its finger at the Empire. However, this isn't known for sure.

As the story goes a couple of hundred of the assault rifles were being smuggled aboard a Correlian YT-1900 transport freighter. The freighter was somehow forced out of hyperspace and boarded by mercenaries aboard an Imperial Customs Frigate. It is not known who orchestrated the attack, but shortly there after the crime boss Ploovo Two-for-one was selling the rifles on the black market. The truth would have been more easily unearthed had the pilot and his first mate not been murdered by blasting them out of the airlock bereft of space suits.

When word got out about the rifles and the attack the New Republic took interest in the case, apparently not having ordered the shipment. The Arakyd Corporation was confronted by New Republic officials, but apparently all documentation of the Araknyd XP-X1 Assault Rifle had been erased from their computer banks. Furthermore, the Arakyd Corporation denied its involvement in the smuggling and challenged all claims to the contrary.

What was more intriguing was that the ships logs indicated a transmission was received by the freighter from a New Republic military HQ. When the computer banks aboard the ship were scanned for the transmission it could not be found. Eager to avoid a scandal the charges were dropped and to this day nobody really knows what happened.
 
 

Based on the famous E-Web, the V-Web is designed to disassemble armored vehicles. To ease in the training of your forces, BlasTech has made the V-Web almost 90% identical to the E-Web, and it uses the same mounts and power system. While actually only a few percentages more powerful that the E-Web, the V-Web is designed specifically to counter light armor. It fires a single, more concentrated tighter pulse of energy, rather than the numerous pulses from the E-Web, sacrificing area of effect for penetration.