Altered Carbon

Altered Carbon is a 2018 Netflix original neo-noir/sci-fi detective series set in the year 2384. Takeshi Kovacs, a rogue Special Forces operative turned terrorist/rebel played by multiple actors, is 250 years into an infinite prison sentence when he is brought back to investigate a suspicious death. As he investigates, events play out both in the present and as he flashes back to his past. 
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=Note=
The basic premise of Altered Carbon is that a technology called Digital Human Freight (DHF), a mind-uploading method which stores a digitized version of a human's memories, personality and consciousness on a device called a "stack", which is kept at the top of the spine. Said stack can be plugged into any body, with the body simply referred to as a "sleeve". As a result of such technology, the death of the body can be survived by uploading the stack to a new one, and even the destruction of the stack itself ("Real Death, or "getting RD'd") can be survived (after a fashion) by those rich enough to maintain backups.
As a result, a character can be played by multiple actors, and the main character of Takeshi Kovacs is played by four actors. Morgan Gao plays him as a boy (credited as "Young Tak") Will Yun Lee playing his "birth sleeve" (as "Stronghold Kovacs"), Byron Mann plays him in an older body (as "O.G. Kovas"), and Joel Kinnaman plays the body he uses in 2384 ("Takeshi Kovacs"). Additionally, Byron Mann appears as a body won by another character in 2384, and Joel Kinnaman is the "birth sleeve" of a police officer.
For purposes of the page, "Kovacs" refers to all incarnations of the character, though specific names are sometimes used.
=Pistols=
==Heckler & Koch Mk. 23==
A modified Heckler & Koch Mark 23 fitted with a large sight mount is seen used by Kovacs and other characters.
==Timecop Beretta ==
An unidentified pistol in a "Timecop Beretta" shell seems to be the standard-issue Envoy handgun, known as the "Sun Jet".
==Steyr M9-A1==
The Steyr M9-A1 with external modification is used by police officers.
==Beretta Px4 Storm==	
Jaeger (Daniel Bernhardt) carries a Beretta Px4 Storm fitted with a laser module in "Out of the Past" (Episode 1). Takeshi Kovacs (Will Yun Lee) carries a similar pistol while serving as a Colonial Tactical Assault Corp (CTAC) Praetorian. He is seen with it holstered in "Nora Inu" (Episode 7), where it is drawn and used by Rei (Dichen Lachman) during a shootout. Kovacs then keeps the handgun while serving with the Envoys. Other CTAC troops carry the Px4 as well, suggesting that is the standard weapon.
==Police Handgun==
Police Lieutenant Kristin Ortega (Martha Higareda) carries a prop handgun that doesn't seem to be based on anything and has no ejection port for empty cases
==Nemex==
Dimitri "Dimi the Twin" Kadmin (Tahmoh Penikett) carries a "Second model Nemex" energy pistol when he attempts to abduct Takeshi Kovacs (Joel Kinnaman) in the first episode. Kovacs takes the weapon for himself after Dimitri's death and carries it for the rest of the series. It is implied to be a high-end and fairly rare weapon by several other characters. While it appears similar to the Chiappa Rhino revolver, and some concept art is based on the Rhino, it does not appear to have any any actual firearm as its base.
===Concept Art===
The revolver is based on a modern-day Chiappa Rhino, with a futuristic twist. Instead of a traditional 6-round cylinder, this design features a high capacity fuel cell, transforming the gun into an energy weapon.
==Ingram-40 Fletchette Pistol==
Takeshi Kovacs Joel Kinnaman obtains a "Ingram-40 flechette gun" from a weapons dealer in Episode 3, "In a Lonely Place". It is describe as a C-TAC prototype firing flanged armor-piercing homing rounds from a 10-round clip. The flechettes are magnetically fired, and can be recalled to the weapon, allowing for functionally infinite ammo and the ability to hit targets from the rear.
==Zoraki 925==
Sarah (Olga Fonda) uses a Zoraki 925 blank-fire-only machine pistol in a shootout with CTAC in "Out of the Past" (Episode 1). Rei (Dichen Lachman) attempts to draw another during a training session in "Nora Inu" (Episode 7) but is disarmed. Interestingly, concept art shows the 925 as the base for a proposed police handgun.
===Concept Art===
==Accles & Shelvoke "Cash Special" captive bolt pistol==
Vernon Elliot (Ato Essandoh), undercover as a General, is issued a bolt pistol to kill his prostitute at the Head In The Clouds brothel in "Rage in Heaven" (Episode 9). The weapon is an Accles & Shelvoke "Cash Special" captive bolt pistol fitted with a trigger guard and a shroud over the rear of the action.
==Particle Blaster==
A "particle blaster" energy weapon belonging to Laurens Bancroft (James Purefoy) is used in his suicide/suspected murder that sets the series's events in motion.
==Umarex Elite Force Racegun==
Reileen "Rei" Kawahara (Dichen Lachman) uses an enormous handgun firing some sort of blaster bolts. She first uses it in "Man With My Face" (Episode 6) when rescuing Kovacs from Fight Dome and the weapons shows up later in "The Killers" (Episode 10) This is an airgun made by Umarex, called the Elite Force "Race Gun" with a futuristic shell covering everything except the grip.
==Unidentified pistol 1 ==
Several criminals are seen with an unidentified handgun similar to concept art for a police handgun. 
===Concept art===
==Unidentified pistol 2==
Some odd handguns are seen holstered in scenes where they are not drawn.
==Unidentified pistol 3==
==Glock 17==
Vidura (Katie Stuart) is seen with Glock 17 well hidden in a futuristic shell after the Rawling virus strike in "Nora Inu" (Episode 7)
=Shotguns=
==Winchester Model 1897==
Poe (Chris Conner), the AI proprietor of The Raven hotel, uses a Winchester Model 1897 riot gun to defend his establishment.
==Kel-Tec KSG==
Reileen "Rei" Kawahara (Dichen Lachman) is seen with a Kel-Tec KSG shotgun in a flashback to her time in the Yakuza on Harlan's World in "Nora Inu" (Episode 7). She uses alongside her brother in a shootout before abandoning it for the Envoy blaster.
 
==UTAS UTS-15==
C-TAC Praetorians use the UTAS UTS-15 shotgun.
thumb|none|500px|Gen 2 UTAS UTS-15 - 12 gauge
=Submachine Guns=
==TDI Vector==
Yakuza on Haralan's World use TDI Vectors during a shootout with Kocavs and Rei in "Nora Inu" (Episode 7).
=Assault Rifles=
==Shocktrooper AK (AKS-74U)==
A heavily modified 5.45mm AK-pattern rifle (probably an AKS-74U) is the standard C-TAC assault rifle in flashbacks. According to concept art, it uses conventional ammo with a secondary magnetic rail to increase velocity. At least one firing prop was made, as Kovacs's rifle is seen cycling. 
TRIVIA: A conventional firearm with an integrated coilgun system to increase velocity is a widely used concept in near-future science fiction. The idea is that using a relatively weak round means low recoil with the same performance you could get from a much more powerful one. The only issue with this is that it is completely wrong, and not how physics works whatsoever. It doesn't matter how the projectile is launched, because of Newton's third law, firing a projectile of a certain weight at a certain velocity with a coilgun system will give you identical recoil to firing that same projectile at that same velocity with gunpowder. The ONLY advantage this would have would be being slightly quieter, and perhaps the logistical benefits of being able to retrofit preexisting rifles for different roles, as the additional components would make for an extremely heavy and expensive weapon.
===Concept Art===
The modified AK is used in the show's flashback sequences. It features an updated barrel which increases the bullet's velocity using a magnetic rail.
==Envoy Blaster (Tippmann Cronus)==
The standard weapon of the Envoy special forces is a assault rifle/blaster built off of a Tippmann Cronus paintball marker. It is fitted with a side-folding stock, EOTech 3X-FTS magnifier as a dot sight, plenty of rails, a light/laser combo, and a "shark teeth" style muzzle device.
==Magnetic Assault Rifle==
Vernon Elliott (Ato Essandoh) uses a magnetically fired assault rifle, described by Kovacs as a "TAC Marine standard-issue AR". The prop itself proclaims it to be a "DUAL STAGE MAG-TIC RAIL". Concept art refers to it as a "Shock Trooper Railgun" and states that it is a refined evolution of the AK-74-based weapon used 250 years earlier. 
===Concept Art===
The railgun used by the Protectorate builds on the technology used in the AK and streamlines it into a single unit, with additional stack-interfacing optics.
=Sniper Rifles=
==Nemesis Arms Vanquish==
A few Envoy soldiers are seen with Nemesis Arms Vanquish snipers rifles in "Nora Inu"
==SMK Synergy Syntarg==
Envoy troops are seen with some sort of suppressed semi-auto scoped rifles in "Nora Inu" (Episode 7). The prop is actually a SMK Synergy Syntarg air rifle modified with a suppressor and a large dummy magazine mounted into the bottom of the stock between the trigger guard and palm swell.
=Grenades=
==EMP Grenade==
Sarah (Olga Fonda) uses a prop grenade during a shootout in "Out Of The Past" (Episode 1). Judging by the blue-white explosion and "electrical arcs" effects on its targets, it seems to be an EMP grenade intended to fry an enemy's stack and RD them. Reileen Kawahara (Dichen Lachman) has a similar grenade on her gear in "Nora Inu" (Episode 7). Kovacs has several in the present as well.
==Blast grenade==
Dimi (Byron Mann) uses some sort of less-lethal blast grenade in "Man with My Face" (Episode 6). Somehow it throws Kovacs and Ortega backward and through a window without killing them and, from all appearances, missing Dimi.
=Other=
==Rotary Machine Gun==
Poe has a pair of rotary Gatling-style weapons in the ceiling of the lobby for defense and puts them to good use in "Out of the Past" (Episode 1). While resembling old-fashioned Gatling Guns with their brass bodies and general layout, they have electric drive and belt feed, with the old-fashioned look being continuation of the hotel's theme.
==Taser pistol==
A futuristic taser pistol is used to incapacitate Kovacs in "Nora Inu" (Episode 7)
==Breaching Charge==
A Protectorate team uses a sci-fi breaching charge to breach a Yakuza stronghold in "Nora Inu" (Episode 7).
==Arms Cache==
A weapons dealer in "In a Lonely Place" (Episode 3) shows off his stock, which appears as a What's What of Vancouver-filmed sci-fi props.
==Weapons Poster==
A "Know which gun is legal" poster is seen in the police station, showing all the various weapons seen in the show.
Category:Science-Fiction
Category:Television
Category:Canadian Produced/Filmed
Category:Netflix