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The Westar M3 Blaster Carbine is a prime example of the transition of small arms doctrine since the end of New Sith Wars, commonly found in the hands of Mandalorian factions before the Kryze dynasty took control of their central world. During the thousand year period, countless conflicts had created galaxy wide standard of long-gun blaster rifles for mid to long range fight, light repeating blasters for long range suppression and assault, and blaster carbines for close quarters battle. The carbine was always designed for low yield shots only so to be better operable in full-auto from a standing firing position. This normally meant that armored targets were harder to deal with as blaster carbines lacked the punch to pierce their durasteel plates.

As Mandalorians were a culture surrounded around armored warriors, they were some of the first to experiment with lighter weight repeating rifles that could take on the role of both blaster carbine and standard blaster rifle. An example from around the end of the New Sith Wars, the WESTAR Avtomat Repeating Blaster Rifle. It was capable of ranges far beyond any blaster carbine of the time, but still lighter than a Sith Reaper Repeating blaster. However, the Avtomat was costly to build and never adopted by any of the Sith factions that drove weapons sells during period. Even on Mandalore, the rifle was only normal used by specialized soldiers of an the clans.

At the end of the Dark Age, a central confederation of clans tried to standardize the armed forces that defended Mandalorian space. With lessons from the Avtomat rifle, WESTAR developed the M3 as a cheap and effective blaster rifle that made the Mandalorian warrior even more deadly than they already were. In full auto, the M3 was manageable from the shoulder and had an effective range more than twice that of common blaster carbine. However, as the centuries past, the M3 started to be out shine by arms like BlasTech E-5 in cost and over all weight of the platform. The Mandalorian Civil War was the M3's last hooray before the pacifist New Mandalorians government decided to destroy most their arms at the end of the war.

Today, the M3 is an average sight in blaster collector's vaults as despite the New Mandalorians, 10s of millions were built by Mando clans and houses over centuries of time. Some collectors even specialize in the different M3s from different eras and clans, devoting whole collections to the subtle changes made to the blaster rifle.

Description

The Westar M3 Blaster Carbine is a prime example of the transition of small arms doctrine since the end of New Sith Wars, commonly found in the hands of Mandalorian factions before the Kryze dynasty took control of their central world. During the thousand year period, countless conflicts had created galaxy wide standard of long-gun blaster rifles for mid to long range fight, light repeating blasters for long range suppression and assault, and blaster carbines for close quarters battle. The carbine was always designed for low yield shots only so to be better operable in full-auto from a standing firing position. This normally meant that armored targets were harder to deal with as blaster carbines lacked the punch to pierce their durasteel plates.

As Mandalorians were a culture surrounded around armored warriors, they were some of the first to experiment with lighter weight repeating rifles that could take on the role of both blaster carbine and standard blaster rifle. An example from around the end of the New Sith Wars, the WESTAR Avtomat Repeating Blaster Rifle. It was capable of ranges far beyond any blaster carbine of the time, but still lighter than a Sith Reaper Repeating blaster. However, the Avtomat was costly to build and never adopted by any of the Sith factions that drove weapons sells during period. Even on Mandalore, the rifle was only normal used by specialized soldiers of an the clans.

At the end of the Dark Age, a central confederation of clans tried to standardize the armed forces that defended Mandalorian space. With lessons from the Avtomat rifle, WESTAR developed the M3 as a cheap and effective blaster rifle that made the Mandalorian warrior even more deadly than they already were. In full auto, the M3 was manageable from the shoulder and had an effective range more than twice that of common blaster carbine. However, as the centuries past, the M3 started to be out shine by arms like BlasTech E-5 in cost and over all weight of the platform. The Mandalorian Civil War was the M3's last hooray before the pacifist New Mandalorians government decided to destroy most their arms at the end of the war.

Today, the M3 is an average sight in blaster collector's vaults as despite the New Mandalorians, 10s of millions were built by Mando clans and houses over centuries of time. Some collectors even specialize in the different M3s from different eras and clans, devoting whole collections to the subtle changes made to the blaster rifle.