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Description

‘Rollthunder’ weapon
“A bootlegged Amp created by the Pyrite Hand hackerpunk Mad Spoon. Instead of attaching to a Tenno forearm and focusing their killing intent and Void resonance, the Rollthunder absorbs ambient void energy and focuses it using engrammatic brainwave patterns from moments of intense rage.”

Special Traits
Enemies caught in the blast radius take 4% increased damage from all sources. This stacks 3 times for a total of 12% increased damage.*
Can remove one Sentient damage resistance bar.

Lore
An arcane weapon blending Solaris and Sentient technology, simulating the behavior of an Amp. It was designed close to the New War period by the Pyrite Hand hackerpunk Mad Spoon, themself claiming to have control of “magic.” It was seen as bragging…

…until they created the Rollthunder.

Those who plied their trades within the same circles as Mad Spoon found themselves forced to question whether or not it was bragging.

The creation, as Mad Spoon explained, dated back to when they had the privilege of watching an Eidolon Hunt. They were fascinated by the unique Amps they saw in action. They couldn’t get it to work, though, and upon hearing that Amps focused killing intent, this was their solution.

Using Corpus brain-mapping technologies based in part on the principles behind Cephalon Glass, Mad Spoon paid various Solaris to hook electrodes to their brains. This would map their greatest angers and record that information on a computer… which would then form the closest thing to a “receiver” on the Rollthunder.

(Mad Spoon had considered using animal brains or human brains instead, but that seemed too difficult to source and also definitely unethical.)

The Rollthunder then uses these copied human brainwaves to channel and focus ambient Void energy through a Granmu Prism. The Prism then turns the void energy and killing intent inherent in the brainwaves into radioactive explosive void projectiles, which are launched towards unsuspecting enemies.

The void radiation causes enemies within the blast radius to take increased damage from all sources, and weakens armor. For some reason, examinations of corpes afflicted by the projectiles were found to have smooth holes bored through their armor with no explanation.
The result is a bizarre “firearm” (if you can call it that) that can be easily disassembled, and is easy to pass off as Old War Salvage or trinkets from Cetus, and has few hallmarks of firearms. Simply put, officials of most jurisdictions - be it Corpus, Grineer, Ganymede, the SIF, or the Oeizu Fleet - will easily let it through security, as they’ll have no ability to recognize it as a firearm.

The weapon is not, in fact, reloaded with data slugs containing engrammatic rage. It’s just batteries. A strange note is that part of the reload process involves creating copies of the original brainwaves and transferring them into the Rollthunder’s backup storage space, ensuring that it always has a supply of data to use as ammunition.

The Quills do not like it, considering it an abomination against the art of Amp-crafting, and Narmer Veiled react to it with nothing short of complete disgust. The former allow it, however, and so it must not be too irredeemable by the lofty standards of the Quills.

Due to the relative rarity and difficulty in acquiring or building this weapon, it’s rare among Solaris United, Level Dawn, and Pyrite Hand sabotage teams. When one is brought out, it’s typically used against “superheavy” targets such as Orbs or Raknoids, along with Corpus and/or Grineer tanks and heavy armor.

During the New War and Narmer Rebellions, the Rollthunder was worth its weight in platinum against the Sentient Adaptation technologies common amongst Narmer forces. It’s still used today, particularly by Solaris “Fremade” who live in forgotten needleworlds and wheelworlds of the Origin System and enforce their freedom with a barrage of projectiles from this firearm.

Incidentally, being afflicted with the damage amplification effect of the Rollthunder really, really hurts.

Mad Spoon later went on to create ever more bizarre devices during the Narmer War, proclaiming they would “Hack the world!” before seemingly vanishing entirely just before the Sunfall that spelled the virtual doom of Narmer.

Stats
Trigger: Burst
Burst Rate: 8
Burst Count: 3
Burst Delay: 0.3
Mag size: 15
Reload time: 3s

On Impact:
Damage: 40
20 Electric
20 Impact
Critical Chance: 12%
Critical Multiplier: 2.2x
Status Chance: 39%
Projectile Type: non-hitscan

Radial
Damage: 300
140 Radiation
90 Slash
70 Puncture
Critical Chance: 12%
Critical Multiplier: 2.2x
Status Chance: 39%
Blast Radius: 6m
Damage Falloff: 100% damage at 0m
30% damage at 4m
Projectile Type: explosion

Artist Notes:
I was coming down from some anesthesia when I came up with this and my body was shaking like a leaf. Which probably explains a lot.
Anyway. The idea for this partly came from some lore for Amps (how they ‘focus killing intent’ into energy) and the anime Eighty-Six (various Legion machines copy brainwaves from captured humans as processors). So I was like “hey, why not combine these two?”

Description

‘Rollthunder’ weapon
“A bootlegged Amp created by the Pyrite Hand hackerpunk Mad Spoon. Instead of attaching to a Tenno forearm and focusing their killing intent and Void resonance, the Rollthunder absorbs ambient void energy and focuses it using engrammatic brainwave patterns from moments of intense rage.”

Special Traits
Enemies caught in the blast radius take 4% increased damage from all sources. This stacks 3 times for a total of 12% increased damage.*
Can remove one Sentient damage resistance bar.

Lore
An arcane weapon blending Solaris and Sentient technology, simulating the behavior of an Amp. It was designed close to the New War period by the Pyrite Hand hackerpunk Mad Spoon, themself claiming to have control of “magic.” It was seen as bragging…

…until they created the Rollthunder.

Those who plied their trades within the same circles as Mad Spoon found themselves forced to question whether or not it was bragging.

The creation, as Mad Spoon explained, dated back to when they had the privilege of watching an Eidolon Hunt. They were fascinated by the unique Amps they saw in action. They couldn’t get it to work, though, and upon hearing that Amps focused killing intent, this was their solution.

Using Corpus brain-mapping technologies based in part on the principles behind Cephalon Glass, Mad Spoon paid various Solaris to hook electrodes to their brains. This would map their greatest angers and record that information on a computer… which would then form the closest thing to a “receiver” on the Rollthunder.

(Mad Spoon had considered using animal brains or human brains instead, but that seemed too difficult to source and also definitely unethical.)

The Rollthunder then uses these copied human brainwaves to channel and focus ambient Void energy through a Granmu Prism. The Prism then turns the void energy and killing intent inherent in the brainwaves into radioactive explosive void projectiles, which are launched towards unsuspecting enemies.

The void radiation causes enemies within the blast radius to take increased damage from all sources, and weakens armor. For some reason, examinations of corpes afflicted by the projectiles were found to have smooth holes bored through their armor with no explanation.
The result is a bizarre “firearm” (if you can call it that) that can be easily disassembled, and is easy to pass off as Old War Salvage or trinkets from Cetus, and has few hallmarks of firearms. Simply put, officials of most jurisdictions - be it Corpus, Grineer, Ganymede, the SIF, or the Oeizu Fleet - will easily let it through security, as they’ll have no ability to recognize it as a firearm.

The weapon is not, in fact, reloaded with data slugs containing engrammatic rage. It’s just batteries. A strange note is that part of the reload process involves creating copies of the original brainwaves and transferring them into the Rollthunder’s backup storage space, ensuring that it always has a supply of data to use as ammunition.

The Quills do not like it, considering it an abomination against the art of Amp-crafting, and Narmer Veiled react to it with nothing short of complete disgust. The former allow it, however, and so it must not be too irredeemable by the lofty standards of the Quills.

Due to the relative rarity and difficulty in acquiring or building this weapon, it’s rare among Solaris United, Level Dawn, and Pyrite Hand sabotage teams. When one is brought out, it’s typically used against “superheavy” targets such as Orbs or Raknoids, along with Corpus and/or Grineer tanks and heavy armor.

During the New War and Narmer Rebellions, the Rollthunder was worth its weight in platinum against the Sentient Adaptation technologies common amongst Narmer forces. It’s still used today, particularly by Solaris “Fremade” who live in forgotten needleworlds and wheelworlds of the Origin System and enforce their freedom with a barrage of projectiles from this firearm.

Incidentally, being afflicted with the damage amplification effect of the Rollthunder really, really hurts.

Mad Spoon later went on to create ever more bizarre devices during the Narmer War, proclaiming they would “Hack the world!” before seemingly vanishing entirely just before the Sunfall that spelled the virtual doom of Narmer.

Stats
Trigger: Burst
Burst Rate: 8
Burst Count: 3
Burst Delay: 0.3
Mag size: 15
Reload time: 3s

On Impact:
Damage: 40
20 Electric
20 Impact
Critical Chance: 12%
Critical Multiplier: 2.2x
Status Chance: 39%
Projectile Type: non-hitscan

Radial
Damage: 300
140 Radiation
90 Slash
70 Puncture
Critical Chance: 12%
Critical Multiplier: 2.2x
Status Chance: 39%
Blast Radius: 6m
Damage Falloff: 100% damage at 0m
30% damage at 4m
Projectile Type: explosion

Artist Notes:
I was coming down from some anesthesia when I came up with this and my body was shaking like a leaf. Which probably explains a lot.
Anyway. The idea for this partly came from some lore for Amps (how they ‘focus killing intent’ into energy) and the anime Eighty-Six (various Legion machines copy brainwaves from captured humans as processors). So I was like “hey, why not combine these two?”