Model: Araknyd Corporation's XP-X1
Type: Assault Rifle
Scale: Character
Skill: Blaster: Assault rifles
Ammo: 100
Cost: 10,000-15,000; 500 (power packs)
Availability: 4, X
Range: 3-25/ 50/ 100 m
Fire Control: 1D+2
Damage: 8D+1
The X1 Assault rifle was produced by Araknyd corporations
in the years following the Battle of Endor. Know one quite knows for whom
the rifles were created but evidence points its finger at the Empire. However,
this isn't known for sure.
As the story goes a couple of hundred of the assault rifles were being
smuggled aboard a Correlian YT-1900 transport freighter. The freighter
was somehow forced out of hyperspace and boarded by mercenaries aboard
an Imperial Customs Frigate. It is not known who orchestrated the attack,
but shortly there after the crime boss Ploovo Two-for-one was selling the
rifles in the black market. The truth would have been more easily unearthed
had the pilot and his first mate not been murdered by blasting them out
of the airlock bereft of space suits.
When word got out about the rifles and the attack the New Republic took
interest in the case, apparently not having ordered the shipment. The Araknyd
Corporation was confronted by New Republic officials, but apparently all
documentation of the Araknyd XP-X1 Assault Rifle had been erased from their
computer banks. Furthermore, the Araknyd Corporation denied its involvement
in the smuggling and challenged all claims to the contrary.
What was more intriguing was that the ships logs indicated a transmission
was received by the freighter from a New Republic military HQ. When the
computer banks aboard the ship were scanned for the transmission it could
not be found. Eager to avoid a scandal the charges were dropped and to
this day nobody really knows what happened.
The X1 Assault Rifle is a powerful compact weapon. It has the firepower of a Heavy Repeating blaster yet is smaller than a blaster rifle. The X1 has fully repeating capabilities giving it any advantages that a repeating blaster has, including a Fire Control stat given above.
Copyright © 1996 Assem Masri