Qelar'mendo'osh-pattern velocity rifle

The Qelar'mendo'osh-pattern rifle ( : Type-28 High-Velocity Multipurpose Rifle), more commonly known as the velocity rifle, was a ranged weapon, useful for a variety of applications. Though extremely accurate and well-suited for sniping, the weapon also possessed a relatively quick fire rate in addition to a soft and very linear recoil impulse, making it quite useable at much shorter ranges as well, although its large size and bulk made it unwieldy in the hands of smaller Covenant races or . A shortened, stripped-down version of the weapon better tuned for mid-range engagements could be commonly found in use by Covenant forces, in the form of the , and later on the .
==History==
Produced in on by the weaponsmiths of , records indicate that the weapon has existed in Covenant arsenals since at least as early as the , where it was used by to exterminate unsanctioned divergent sects on the colony of .
Despite not being catalogued by until 2528, the velocity rifle was first encountered by forces in 2526 on .
===Technical Overview===
The Type-28 velocity rifle is a multipurpose weapon which accelerates pressurized slugs of energized, high-density non-newtonian fluid to a speed of nearly 20 kilometers per second. Exactly how this is achieved is unknown, as like most Covenant technology, the velocity rifle is largely devoid of instrumentality, making it exceptionally difficult to reverse engineer. Current theory posits that Covenant weapons transfer electronic signals and most of the basic mechanical interactions between components through a localized bubble, although if this is true then it is still unknown why it is done. Despite this, much can still be gained based on observations of the weapon's operation and usage by Covenant forces in the field, as well as based on interactions with the Sangheili.
Category:Demons of Hope
Category:Covenant weapons