Railgun

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"***Easy morons. It doesn't work, yet. It doesn't work, yet! Who said it doesn't work?! Maybe it does!***"

**Railguns** were immensely powerful, handheld rifle-like weapons whose performance outclasses standard firearms. However, its construction appeared to be very complex, and only Uzi managed to produce a working model for use against Disassembly Drones.

## Background

Described by Uzi as a "magnetically amplified photon converger", upon use it fires a massive neon-green colored beam that completely obliterates anything in its path. Due to the special nature of its armament, however, it requires a special power core to operate and has to recharge for thirty minutes after such a massive power expenditure. Uzi's prototype appeared to have some level of instability, as it malfunctioned while she showed it to her class. It also released an immensely powerful explosion upon its destruction when it was smashed against the ground and overheated, which managed to completely obliterate the numerous components of Eldritch J and left only the its core intact, which was subsequently stabbed to death by Serial Designation N.

## History

### Pilot

Uzi's railgun prototype is introduced and fired a total of three times in the pilot episode. The first was something of an accident, when it malfunctioned while she showed it to the class. Its instability was reflected by its unusual red color, and after this culminated in a minor explosion that blasted half of Uzi's face off, and nearly crushed a metal door, smoke trailed out of the weapon for some time thereafter.

   Its first intentional usage was, fittingly enough, also against its intended enemy. Uzi ventures out of the colony to hunt and kill a Disassembly Drone, and after she finds the last component needed for its operation and encounters one in the Drones' lair outside, she blasts its head clean off. The weapon's effectiveness is revealed to be limited: while it had just the devastating power that Uzi had hoped it would produce, it appeared that Disassembly Drones could reform lost body parts and its head reforms itself. It appeared to cause some level of semipermanent damage, however, and the Drone's optical sensors and memory remained damaged upon its reconstruction. As a result, Uzi and the Disassembly Drone (assuming that Uzi was one of its fellows), introduced itself as "Serial Designation N" and the two had a short conversation thereafter. While the other Disassembly Drones soon arrived, forcing Uzi to leave (the railgun was still under a thirty-minute cooling period before it could be safely used again), she gained two valuable things from the experience: information on the Murder Drones, from a drone itself, and the knowledge that the railgun indeed works against their intended target, albeit only to a limited extent.

The third and final time it is used in the pilot episode was against the two other Disassembly Drones after they broke into the Worker Drones' colony and began killing all they saw. Uzi - now allied with N - tried to halt the massacre by fighting the two aggressors, and while N took on V with his inbuilt weapons, Uzi combated J with her railgun. Uzi eventually pins down the Disassembly Drone at gunpoint, and obliterates its entire upper body with a single blast. N, too, manages to defeat his adversary and after a brief confrontation with the colony's Worker Drones, Uzi and N (the latter dragging the still-intact but bound V) storm out of the place, Uzi forgetting her railgun in her anger.

### Heartbeat

Thad, one of Uzi's classmates and a friend of hers, follows the trio out to hand Uzi's railgun back to her. He also tells her about the mysterious disappearance of a maintenance Worker Drone named Frank near the now-missing remains of J's body. Uzi, N, and Thad decide to head back into the colony to investigate.

This search eventually culminated in a confrontation between Uzi and the culprit, known only as "Eldritch J", whereupon Uzi was poised to strike the construct. However, a series of factors - the trauma of seeing her dead mother in a hologram and the supposed death of her father, indecision as to which limb should be severed and the weapon's one-shot nature, and general fear to her predicament - prevented her from pulling the trigger. She tried to hand it over to N at his suggestion, but it turned out to be a hologram created by the horror and it promptly whacked the railgun away and stamped on its core, rendering it unstable and unusable. Not long after, the core turned a dangerous shade of red and violently exploded, destroying the railgun and Eldritch J in the blast.

## Trivia

* Uzi commonly refers to it as her "Sick as Hell Railgun."
* Real railguns are projectile weapons, but Uzi's description of a "photon converger" implies hers is some sort of laser cannon. Uzi also describes the weapon as "magnetically amplified" which fits the description of a traditional railgun but would be nonsensical for a photon-based weapon, as photons are electrically neutral and cannot be directly amplified by magnetic fields.
* Uzi's Railgun has a sticker resembling the emblem of the SMG4 character Saiko, which is fitting as both Saiko (only for singing parts) and Uzi are voiced by Elsie Lovelock.
* In reality, railguns are still highly experimental technology that, as of current advancements, cannot be compacted to anywhere near the size and weight of a standard rifle. Their operation also produces a very different visual effect.
* Uzi's Railgun is based off a Heckler & Koch SL-8, while the design up until the barrel resembles an SL-8 DMR closely with the ejection port still being visible.

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