PH-01 Modular Weapons Platform

### Description

To start is the base pistol, completely done away with are the circuit arrangements, aesthetic, unfocusing crystals, miniature temples, and other seemingly needless components of the standard uber lasgun. However, the weight of the pistol module alone is seemingly near to double the weight of even a lasrifle clocking in at 3.2 Kilograms. This is because the entire platform is meant to be fully modular with the extra heft being as a result of all the ports and controls that lend the absurd customizability and versatility to the gun. Speaking of, nigh on every aspect of the weapon and it's operation is now customizable from beam strength to beam length, power packs to accelerator stacks, and quite literally everything in between. This is facilitated in part only because of the uber lasgun special design which properly applied gives optics and power connections that don't burn out outside of specific tolerances as is done to a lesser degree in "hotshot" weapons as well as the application of medical and cybernetic technologies into the overall design maintaining most of the durability with the ease of customization.

Of course, all this customizability would be for nought if the weapon did not perform and indeed some parts of the design do lower somewhat weapon strength. However, this is offset by the simplified circuitry, enhanced optics, and removal of the moronic focusing crystal. This means at the same settings as a standard uber laspistol the Flashlight sees an actual 7% greater performance on top of the fact that the beams can be, outside of specific modifications or settings, invisible to the naked eye due to the non-present unfocusing crystal. This is on top of beam configuration settings even on the base allowing for all manner of things from highly diffused beams meant to ignite surroundings to prolonged beams or even beams in certain specific shapes such as elongated beams meant for cutting into things though as expected any beam aperture save for the most focused pinpoint beam sees performance loss usually to a crippling degree and most such options remain on the weapons platform more because it would be an expense to remove them specifically without removing actually useful features.

Finally comes the Flashlight vaunted customizability which suffice to say if you can imagine a configuration is probably possible. Though certain modifications like the plasma rail attachment barrel based off tau railgun designs would be more expensive than stuff like longer optic tunnels enhancing performance at increased length or ergonomic stocks.

Finally, there are the downsides to the weapon, it isn't as durable, it has no temples so no weight in the immaterium, it cannot be made in the existing factories, the gun is heavier than lasguns, and it's expensive. This gun will not stay in the same family in the Cadian guard for two millennia, in active use it probably won't even last a century if half that. This gun does not shine with the light of the Paragon and no amount of zealotry will bring its aid. The gun requires specific components and machining that necessitate any factory it's produced in be refitted to do so. Finally this gun, and basic rifle additions costs almost twice as much as an uber lasgun and weighs a little over twice as much at 5.6 Kilograms.

It's a fully modular enhancement of the lasgun and like the lasgun will never be as good in any role as a weapon designed for that role.