Drakeian Combo Pistol

"Who designed this thing?! The sight is bloody useless." Draoga complaining about the pistol during her first encounter with it.
The Combo Pistol is a standard issue small arm used by the Drakeian species. The nation of Draknia also mounts an energy beam weapon under the gun's railgun barrel.
==Overview==
The Combo Pistol is a common Drakeian firearm with examples from Draknia mounting an underbarrel beam weapon in addition to the railgun. Even within Draknia, the weapon was just a variable power railgun until the discovery, and subsequent hiding of, a crashed Ancient Dragon starship containing intact personal weapons and personal shield units. The beam weapon modification was only added to Draknia's weapons intended for use on their starships for several years, being completely unknown to the other Drakeian nations.
The weapon's effectiveness is most noticeable at close range on any power setting, due to a design flaw which places the clip (a block of segmented metal which the gun shaves off a solid chunk from and fires out of the barrel using rails made of Drake Metal) behind the sight, making accurate shots impossible, even with just a few shots left in the clip due to the single sight. The weapon has a variable power setting (controlled by rotating the button on the left side of the grip), lower power settings increase fire rate, but decrease accuracy and hitting power, higher settings decrease fire rate, but increase accuracy and hitting power. Most Drakeians use a middle setting, balancing firepower and accuracy with fire rate.
Combo Pistols within Draknia have an additional setting which involves pressing the button on the guns left side grip, which activates the beam setting. As with the railgun setting, the beam has a variable power setting, accuracy is never impaired, so low settings mean a solid constant beam of weak power, while high settings result in a short but powerful bolt of energy being fired. On higher power settings for both beam and railgun, the powerpack (grey half-cylinder between the beam and grip) must be replaced to continue firing after only a few shots, so much so that with the higher power railgun setting, it is often common to replace the powerpack before replacing the clip. The beam weapon consumes more power than the railgun but is a cleaner weapon that if on the correct settings will not cause collateral damage.
Draknia offers additional safety tips on using the weapon, one of them states 'When in tight confined areas such as a ship, the beam function should be used to minimise collateral damage and risk of self injury'.
==Firing and Accuracy==
The Combo Pistol's railgun is notorious for being inaccurate due to it's single obscured sight, however, if it can be sighted, the weapon is very accurate on higher power settings. However, if the power setting is low, the shots will fly around anywhere making it perfect for a spray and pray approach where fire rate is more desired than high firepower. The Combo Pistol's beam weapon is pinpoint accurate inside it's effective range at low settings, while on high settings the bolt of energy can wander slightly due to recoil.
Several individuals have mounted their own sights on to the side of the weapon, but no nation offers factory fitted sights except for the single frontal sight as the general mentality for the Combo Pistol is as a defensive weapon only to be used in close range engagements where firing without sighting is expected.
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