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M-920 Cain
- Popular Manufacturer(s): Unknown
- Training Required: Heavy Weapons
- Rounds per minute: 30
- Related weapons: None
- DESCRIPTION: The effectiveness and efficiency of mass effect-based weapon technology has rendered large-scale deployment of highly explosive weaponry all but obsolete infantry weapons. Normandy’s scientists have prototyped a modified version of traditional high-explosive rounds that is applied to a 25 gram slug. When accelerated to 5 km/s, the round is devastating. Though a technically inaccurate label, this prototype weapon is nicknamed the “Nuke Launcher”, and its high-explosive matrix generates an archetypical mushroom cloud on impact. It inflicts high damage with large area of effect. Very effective against armour, shields, and barriers.
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M-622 Avalanche
- Popular Manufacturer(s): Unknown
- Training Required: Heavy Weapons
- Rounds per minute: 120
- Related weapons: None
- DESCRIPTION: Cryo Round technology is used to modify standard weapon slugs. A cooling laser collapses the ammunition into Bose-Einstein condensate, a mass of super-cooled subatomic particles capable of snap-freezing impacted objects. Normandy’s scientists have found a way to apply this technology on a large scale: by generating a mass effect containment “bubble”, this proof-of-concept large weapon technology is effective against armour, shields, and biotic barriers. It is nicknamed the "Cryo-Blaster."
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M490 Blackstorm Projector
- Popular Manufacturer(s): Unknown
- Training Required: Heavy Weapons
- Rounds per minute: -
- Related weapons: None
- DESCRIPTION: The Blackstorm encases a few particles of matter within a high-powered mass-increasing field, elevating them to near-infinite mass and creating a powerful localised gravity well that draws nearby enemies and objects into itself. The rapidly-increasing gravity near the event horizon of the singularity rips the objects apart and then explosively hurls them away.
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M-100 Grenade Launcher
- Popular Manufacturer(s): Elanus Risk Control Services
- Training Required: Heavy Weapons
- Rounds per minute: 125
- Related weapons: None
- DESCRIPTION: Rapid-fire grenade launcher favored by the Blood Pack Vorcha Mercenaries. Capable of taking down multiple enemies with a single well-placed shot. Effective against armour, shields, and biotic barriers.
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X-23a Katana Shotgun
- Popular Manufacturer(s): Ariake Technologies
- Training Required: Shotguns
- Rounds per minute: 48
- Related weapons: X-27a Scimitar Assault Shotgun
- DESCRIPTION: Common military shotgun. Deadly at short range, but ineffective at long range. Very effective versus shields and biotic barriers, but weak versus armour. Manufactured by Ariake Technologies, the Katana is a common mercenary weapon, and is also popular on colonies with Varren infestations.
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