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“A overcomplicated, oversized, overbuilt pistol built after an ancient Mars design, chambered for large-caliber incendiary rounds that always ignite on impact. Its high weight and complexity make recoil negligible, but gives it a slightly slower reload and fire rate.”
Codex
Lore
"There's perks to being friends with the Tenno who makes big revolvers. But sometimes, you just gotta knock things to the floor and set them on fire."
--Tenno Ginebra
Historians among the Corpus, Vorii, Ganymedeans, and SIF differ on the origins of this heavy semiautomatic pistol. Either it’s a relic of an ancient Martian civilization looted from bunkers in the deepest caverns of Mars. Or the pistol was called the Mars. Either or.
It’s a relic from the early days of Orokin firearms engineering, when they were attempting to rediscover the lost science of firearms engineering, long since dismissed by the Orokin as something for primitives who they could just use as raw materials. As a result, pretty much everything about it tends towards the words “huge,” “over,” and “massive.” It’s a mess of mechanical complexity, built with a mechanism perhaps a bit more suited to an atillery piece, chambered for rounds that would fit better in a revolver, with a barrel that makes it as long as (if not longer than!) some of the revolvers created by Haruka Lorne. And it’s heavy. Really, really heavy.
Despite its weight, it has noticeable recoil.
At least one Orokin firearms expert once compared it to firing a cinderblock. Experience bears out this opinion. According to legend, the Tenno Ginebra once used it as a club in a melee with Sentients, keeping pace with her fellow Tenno… only to realize that she’d forgotten to unsheathe her Nikana and had just been using a pistol as a mace. It did surprisingly well.
At one point, it was the most powerful pistol in the Orokin arsenal, firing rounds outstripping even some revolvers of the time. Then the Lex series - which was simpler in operation, better against armor, and more powerful - was rediscovered by the Orokin from ancient designs predating them, used by colonists. Then it was rebuilt into the Lex Prime. And then Haruka Lorne managed to fit ammo that rivaled if not outright beat it for raw power into revolvers such as the Naga, Depezador, and Estampida. And Father built the Sepulcrum. And the Largo was invented, serving as a lighter, faster weapon with truly breathtaking crit. And at some point in the distant future, the Ganymedeans invented the Hiro, which - while firing slower rounds - could carry a larger payload.
The Vulkan is, to put it lightly, past its prime. However: it has one advantage. And that’s the fact that its rounds always deal heat damage on direct hits. In addition, Its ammo can be switched from “penetrator” rounds to explosives. As with the Elysium assault cannon, which uses a similar mechanism, penetrator rounds travel faster while explosives are slower but do slightly more damage.
As a result, the Vulkan is a favorite among both collectors and Tenno who really, really like setting things on fire and beating them to death with cinderblocks, such as Haruka Lorne’s friend Ginebra.
Unlike most weapons with a guaranteed status effect, the Vulkan has surprisingly good status… and since it has no base heat damage on impact in penetration and explosive mode, only procs, it’s possible to fire corrosive freezing burning rounds. In explosive mode, you can do shenanigans with status.

STATS
Trigger: Semi
Magazine: 10
Reload: 3.1s
Fire Rate: 1.4
Non-hitscan
Recoil: Medium
Primary Fire (Penetrator)
Damage: 80
    36 Impact
    16 Puncture
    28 Slash
    Guaranteed Heat Proc
Non-Hitscan
Status Chance: 20%
Critical Chance: 24%
Critical Multiplier: 2.2x
Punch-Through: 0.5m

Secondary Fire
Total Damage: 92

On Impact:
Damage: 40
    18 Impact
    8 Puncture
    14 Slash
    Guaranteed Heat Proc
Non-Hitscan
Status Chance: 24%
Critical Chance: 20%
Critical Multiplier: 2.2x

On Impact:
Radial:
Damage: 52
    24 Heat
    16 Impact
    12 Slash
Non-Hitscan
Status Chance: 24%
Critical Chance: 20%
Critical Multiplier: 2.2x
Blast Radius: 2m

Artist Notes:
Buried somewhere in one of my sketchpads or somewhere was an idea for some kind of pirate pistol that fired incendiary rounds, built for my (rarely used) faction idea, the Scum. The plan was that they were a network of criminals, drug addicts, sadists, and outcasts too repulsive even for Grineer society, who used stealth technology, along with homemade inventions. They’d be not unlike the Angel Cartel from EVE Online, using bootlegged ancient technology and arming it with modern-built grineer-made slugthrowers. The Elysium from awhile back was something they commonly used (I like improvised guns. They’re funny) and the original idea for the Vulkan was that it would be a homemade gun built by the Scum inspired by the Gabbett Fairfax Mars.
That was a fucking mistake.
Because the more I learned about the Gabbett Fairfax Mars, the… okay, just go watch this animation of how it works. Or go watch the forgottenweapons video. You follow a guy whose output on deviantart is like 81% gun, I’m guessing you watch forgottenweapons. But if you don’t know, the Gabbett Fairfax Mars is a baroque, hilariously overcomplicated, oversized, over-everything semiauto pistol that is essentially an artillery piece scaled down to the point that it can fire a round not unlike .45 Winchester Magnum. If these dirt-poor pirates I was coming up with were making a homemade pistol, it’d probably look more like a glock, or a 1911, but hideous. I’ve got a workable drawing along those lines somewhere.
So naturally I gave it to the Tenno. I also took a little inspiration from the Automag from The Outer Worlds - the slide and barrel and the wooden not-quite-handguard are references to that. I also planned on giving it the not-quite-a-gas tube from that pistol, but I just… I don’t know, I wasn’t feeling it. I liked the dramatic, top-heavy curve of its silhouette, so that had to go.
The Automag is, I am convinced, someone translating the Volcanic Repeater pistol into a “modern” semiauto, So the name ‘vulkan’ is sort of a joke on that, as is the fact that its rounds basically double as minirockets.
Part of me wants to give this thing damage rivaling the (Ak)lex Prime, but if I was doing that, I’d have to remove the guaranteed heat proc, and it’s for the best if I keep the Lex Prime, Sepulcrum, and Estampida as the ceiling of pistol damage. Warframe has… pretty bad powercreep. Did you know that at one point, a single Vasto was “a good pistol” ?
And now I have an AkVasto Prime with a bullshit riven that gave it 97% status and 8.2x crit, secondary deadhead, and Galvanized Diffusion. Fun times.

Description

“A overcomplicated, oversized, overbuilt pistol built after an ancient Mars design, chambered for large-caliber incendiary rounds that always ignite on impact. Its high weight and complexity make recoil negligible, but gives it a slightly slower reload and fire rate.”
Codex
Lore
"There's perks to being friends with the Tenno who makes big revolvers. But sometimes, you just gotta knock things to the floor and set them on fire."
--Tenno Ginebra
Historians among the Corpus, Vorii, Ganymedeans, and SIF differ on the origins of this heavy semiautomatic pistol. Either it’s a relic of an ancient Martian civilization looted from bunkers in the deepest caverns of Mars. Or the pistol was called the Mars. Either or.
It’s a relic from the early days of Orokin firearms engineering, when they were attempting to rediscover the lost science of firearms engineering, long since dismissed by the Orokin as something for primitives who they could just use as raw materials. As a result, pretty much everything about it tends towards the words “huge,” “over,” and “massive.” It’s a mess of mechanical complexity, built with a mechanism perhaps a bit more suited to an atillery piece, chambered for rounds that would fit better in a revolver, with a barrel that makes it as long as (if not longer than!) some of the revolvers created by Haruka Lorne. And it’s heavy. Really, really heavy.
Despite its weight, it has noticeable recoil.
At least one Orokin firearms expert once compared it to firing a cinderblock. Experience bears out this opinion. According to legend, the Tenno Ginebra once used it as a club in a melee with Sentients, keeping pace with her fellow Tenno… only to realize that she’d forgotten to unsheathe her Nikana and had just been using a pistol as a mace. It did surprisingly well.
At one point, it was the most powerful pistol in the Orokin arsenal, firing rounds outstripping even some revolvers of the time. Then the Lex series - which was simpler in operation, better against armor, and more powerful - was rediscovered by the Orokin from ancient designs predating them, used by colonists. Then it was rebuilt into the Lex Prime. And then Haruka Lorne managed to fit ammo that rivaled if not outright beat it for raw power into revolvers such as the Naga, Depezador, and Estampida. And Father built the Sepulcrum. And the Largo was invented, serving as a lighter, faster weapon with truly breathtaking crit. And at some point in the distant future, the Ganymedeans invented the Hiro, which - while firing slower rounds - could carry a larger payload.
The Vulkan is, to put it lightly, past its prime. However: it has one advantage. And that’s the fact that its rounds always deal heat damage on direct hits. In addition, Its ammo can be switched from “penetrator” rounds to explosives. As with the Elysium assault cannon, which uses a similar mechanism, penetrator rounds travel faster while explosives are slower but do slightly more damage.
As a result, the Vulkan is a favorite among both collectors and Tenno who really, really like setting things on fire and beating them to death with cinderblocks, such as Haruka Lorne’s friend Ginebra.
Unlike most weapons with a guaranteed status effect, the Vulkan has surprisingly good status… and since it has no base heat damage on impact in penetration and explosive mode, only procs, it’s possible to fire corrosive freezing burning rounds. In explosive mode, you can do shenanigans with status.

STATS
Trigger: Semi
Magazine: 10
Reload: 3.1s
Fire Rate: 1.4
Non-hitscan
Recoil: Medium
Primary Fire (Penetrator)
Damage: 80
    36 Impact
    16 Puncture
    28 Slash
    Guaranteed Heat Proc
Non-Hitscan
Status Chance: 20%
Critical Chance: 24%
Critical Multiplier: 2.2x
Punch-Through: 0.5m

Secondary Fire
Total Damage: 92

On Impact:
Damage: 40
    18 Impact
    8 Puncture
    14 Slash
    Guaranteed Heat Proc
Non-Hitscan
Status Chance: 24%
Critical Chance: 20%
Critical Multiplier: 2.2x

On Impact:
Radial:
Damage: 52
    24 Heat
    16 Impact
    12 Slash
Non-Hitscan
Status Chance: 24%
Critical Chance: 20%
Critical Multiplier: 2.2x
Blast Radius: 2m

Artist Notes:
Buried somewhere in one of my sketchpads or somewhere was an idea for some kind of pirate pistol that fired incendiary rounds, built for my (rarely used) faction idea, the Scum. The plan was that they were a network of criminals, drug addicts, sadists, and outcasts too repulsive even for Grineer society, who used stealth technology, along with homemade inventions. They’d be not unlike the Angel Cartel from EVE Online, using bootlegged ancient technology and arming it with modern-built grineer-made slugthrowers. The Elysium from awhile back was something they commonly used (I like improvised guns. They’re funny) and the original idea for the Vulkan was that it would be a homemade gun built by the Scum inspired by the Gabbett Fairfax Mars.
That was a fucking mistake.
Because the more I learned about the Gabbett Fairfax Mars, the… okay, just go watch this animation of how it works. Or go watch the forgottenweapons video. You follow a guy whose output on deviantart is like 81% gun, I’m guessing you watch forgottenweapons. But if you don’t know, the Gabbett Fairfax Mars is a baroque, hilariously overcomplicated, oversized, over-everything semiauto pistol that is essentially an artillery piece scaled down to the point that it can fire a round not unlike .45 Winchester Magnum. If these dirt-poor pirates I was coming up with were making a homemade pistol, it’d probably look more like a glock, or a 1911, but hideous. I’ve got a workable drawing along those lines somewhere.
So naturally I gave it to the Tenno. I also took a little inspiration from the Automag from The Outer Worlds - the slide and barrel and the wooden not-quite-handguard are references to that. I also planned on giving it the not-quite-a-gas tube from that pistol, but I just… I don’t know, I wasn’t feeling it. I liked the dramatic, top-heavy curve of its silhouette, so that had to go.
The Automag is, I am convinced, someone translating the Volcanic Repeater pistol into a “modern” semiauto, So the name ‘vulkan’ is sort of a joke on that, as is the fact that its rounds basically double as minirockets.
Part of me wants to give this thing damage rivaling the (Ak)lex Prime, but if I was doing that, I’d have to remove the guaranteed heat proc, and it’s for the best if I keep the Lex Prime, Sepulcrum, and Estampida as the ceiling of pistol damage. Warframe has… pretty bad powercreep. Did you know that at one point, a single Vasto was “a good pistol” ?
And now I have an AkVasto Prime with a bullshit riven that gave it 97% status and 8.2x crit, secondary deadhead, and Galvanized Diffusion. Fun times.