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Description

Object 1235U (name subject to change) SMG/shotgun
“This bizarre nano-weapon shoots slow, heavy projectiles designed for close quarters against organic targets. Landing shots on organic targets within its optimal range triggers a substantiation operation that causes an explosion of nanites, while the ammunition fragments into a shotgunlike spray outside of said range... Or when bouncing on hard surfaces.”
--Codex
Special Traits: No self-stagger

Lore

This firearm from the Kithships - massive, angular black ships found in Veil Proxima and the Far Black, rarely venturing past Saturn - was brought to the attention of the Tenno by one Darvo Bek.
It bears a resemblance to the nanomunition weapons of the long-dead Kraton of Iapetus.
Both use solid-state impeller coils to fire rounds made of nanomachine colonies. Object 1235u, however, fires slower, larger-caliber rounds that split into five shrapnel-like projectiles after traveling 24 meters. Upon impact with organic targets within its optimal range, Object 1235u’s rounds propagate and release a radial swarm of nanomachines, creating an effect not dissimilar to a gas damage explosion.
Additionally, it bears a striking resemblance to the mysterious Object 45-i-98.
The result is a weapon not dissimilar to an SMG or shotgun. It operates at similar ranges to both, and while the stopping power does not seem to degrade as quickly as that of an SMG or automatic shotgun, the massive spread after 24 meters pushes it firmly into this role.
This appears to be a safety measure designed to restrict collateral damage while indoors. The shrapnel deals minimal impact damage to sensitive technology. However, it displays a surprising ability to wreak havoc on Corpus machines, suggesting that the nano-shrapnel possesses some kind of onboard IFF.
This level of technology would be remarkable even in the time of the Orokin, but the kithships - whoever, or whatever they are - are rather cagey about communicating with the Tenno for anything but the barest necessities.
Virtually nothing is known about the Kithships. The locations of their home base, (or bases?) their tech base, their culture, their population, their origins, the nature of their existence, all are unknown.
Kithships often communicate through a single androgynous representative, who never gives a name. They use non-gendered pronouns to refer to themselves, and only name themselves as “The Kithship name,” in the same way a captain might say “this is the good ship Starpuncher*.”
Indeed, the Kithships were thought to be mythical until the Narmer War. Spacers beyond even far-off Pluto - Myconan expeditions to Eris, Grineer mining and garrison forces on far-off Sedna, and Corpus from the ill-fated Lucretia Platform - often referenced black ghost ships flitting from asteroid to Kibo**, stripping them of resources. In the seediest taverns on asteroid and lunar installations as close as Uranus and Neptune, rockhoppers, scavengers, rail agents, along with Steel Meridian freebooters would reference the “blacker-than-black,” or “old-yellow eyes,” a phenomenon where one would see something blot out the stars, and the vague sensation of a great angular shape, lit only by specks of dull yellow.
Indeed, these ships are commonly associated with the disappearance of well-established Orokin derelicts such as the Litany, in addition to disappearances of Corpus and Grineer ships that were often chalked up to Tenno sabotage.
Admittedly, sometimes they were Tenno sabotage, but there are numerous cases of Tenno having sabotaged or exterminated the population of Corpus and Grineer ships, only for those ships to never be found - or, sometimes, to be discovered looking for all the world like they’d been eaten by gigantic mouths.
And then the Narmer War happened.
During the Battle of Veil Proxima, numerous ships from the Alliance reported unknown black ships harassing Sentient Murexes, firing upon them with munitions that seemed to be mutagenic to the Sentient substrate, creating bizarre spiraling growths and deep rents in their carapaces.
Bizarre enough, but as the surviving un-Veiled population of the Origin System fled to Veil Proxima and the Far Black, sightings of the kithships skyrocketed exponentially. Three things became clear about them:
They hoarded resources for no discernible purposes.
They guarded their technology with great intensity.
They really, really wanted to keep as far from the Technocyte, Sentients and Narmer as possible.
Equally bizarre, both Dziewanna and the Bidanians confessed to having stable trade relationships with the kithships.
To this day, the kithships jealously guard their secrets from all including the Tenno, save for during Operation Kithship Exodus.
See the attached file on Operation Kithship Exodus for more details.

Footnotes
* Did you write this, Haruka? –Ginebra
And I’ll do it again. ~Haruka
** This is a corruption of the ancient term ‘Kuiper Belt Object’ - the Kuiper Belt is an archaic name for Veil Proxima and the Far Black. ~Haruka Lorne

Stats
Utility:
Type: Rifle
Trigger: Auto
Ammo Type: Primary
Fire rate: 5.25
Noise: Alarming
Magazine: 45
Reload: 3.5

Auto impact:
Total Damage: 84
14 Impact
30 Puncture
40 Slash
Ammo Cost: 1
Critical Chance: 24%
Critical Multiplier: 2.1x
Fire Rate: 5.25
Multishot: 1
Range: 24m
Status Chance: 32%

Auto AoE
Damage: 48 gas
Self stagger: none
Critical Chance: 24%
Critical Multiplier: 2.1x
Fire Rate: 5.25
Multishot: 1
Range: 1.5m
Falloff: 80% damage at 1.5m
Status Chance: 32%
Type: AoE

Shrapnel
Damage: 28
20 Slash
8 puncture
Multishot: 5
Critical Chance: 24%
Critical Multiplier: 2.1x
Fire Rate: 5.25
Status Chance: 20%
Falloff:
100% damage up to 20m (44m total)
40% damage at 30m (54m total)

Artist Notes:
I took the basic silhouette for this from some Destiny concept art.
Also yeah. This was a bit of a weird one. I wasn’t a hundred sure what I would do with this gun for a long time, and then I was thinking about Bucky’s altfire in Valorant, and I thought “okay, that’s pretty dope.” And also, making a projectile that splits midway through its trajectory seemed just Borderlands enough to work, so I added that in here.
And yes, I am making a shotgun based on this.
I think it seemed like an interesting way to cement that this is an SMG with falloff, or at least something falloff-like (?). The explosion was… honestly? I’m not a hundred percent sure. It seemed interesting enough, and I also patterned a lot of the stats here after the Trumna.
Also, full disclosure - there’s a lot of stuff about this I’m playing close to my chest about the lore here. I have a lot of interesting things I want to write about the Kithships for a fanmade event idea, and I’m a little suspicious that I wrote too much here.

Description

Object 1235U (name subject to change) SMG/shotgun
“This bizarre nano-weapon shoots slow, heavy projectiles designed for close quarters against organic targets. Landing shots on organic targets within its optimal range triggers a substantiation operation that causes an explosion of nanites, while the ammunition fragments into a shotgunlike spray outside of said range... Or when bouncing on hard surfaces.”
--Codex
Special Traits: No self-stagger

Lore

This firearm from the Kithships - massive, angular black ships found in Veil Proxima and the Far Black, rarely venturing past Saturn - was brought to the attention of the Tenno by one Darvo Bek.
It bears a resemblance to the nanomunition weapons of the long-dead Kraton of Iapetus.
Both use solid-state impeller coils to fire rounds made of nanomachine colonies. Object 1235u, however, fires slower, larger-caliber rounds that split into five shrapnel-like projectiles after traveling 24 meters. Upon impact with organic targets within its optimal range, Object 1235u’s rounds propagate and release a radial swarm of nanomachines, creating an effect not dissimilar to a gas damage explosion.
Additionally, it bears a striking resemblance to the mysterious Object 45-i-98.
The result is a weapon not dissimilar to an SMG or shotgun. It operates at similar ranges to both, and while the stopping power does not seem to degrade as quickly as that of an SMG or automatic shotgun, the massive spread after 24 meters pushes it firmly into this role.
This appears to be a safety measure designed to restrict collateral damage while indoors. The shrapnel deals minimal impact damage to sensitive technology. However, it displays a surprising ability to wreak havoc on Corpus machines, suggesting that the nano-shrapnel possesses some kind of onboard IFF.
This level of technology would be remarkable even in the time of the Orokin, but the kithships - whoever, or whatever they are - are rather cagey about communicating with the Tenno for anything but the barest necessities.
Virtually nothing is known about the Kithships. The locations of their home base, (or bases?) their tech base, their culture, their population, their origins, the nature of their existence, all are unknown.
Kithships often communicate through a single androgynous representative, who never gives a name. They use non-gendered pronouns to refer to themselves, and only name themselves as “The Kithship name,” in the same way a captain might say “this is the good ship Starpuncher*.”
Indeed, the Kithships were thought to be mythical until the Narmer War. Spacers beyond even far-off Pluto - Myconan expeditions to Eris, Grineer mining and garrison forces on far-off Sedna, and Corpus from the ill-fated Lucretia Platform - often referenced black ghost ships flitting from asteroid to Kibo**, stripping them of resources. In the seediest taverns on asteroid and lunar installations as close as Uranus and Neptune, rockhoppers, scavengers, rail agents, along with Steel Meridian freebooters would reference the “blacker-than-black,” or “old-yellow eyes,” a phenomenon where one would see something blot out the stars, and the vague sensation of a great angular shape, lit only by specks of dull yellow.
Indeed, these ships are commonly associated with the disappearance of well-established Orokin derelicts such as the Litany, in addition to disappearances of Corpus and Grineer ships that were often chalked up to Tenno sabotage.
Admittedly, sometimes they were Tenno sabotage, but there are numerous cases of Tenno having sabotaged or exterminated the population of Corpus and Grineer ships, only for those ships to never be found - or, sometimes, to be discovered looking for all the world like they’d been eaten by gigantic mouths.
And then the Narmer War happened.
During the Battle of Veil Proxima, numerous ships from the Alliance reported unknown black ships harassing Sentient Murexes, firing upon them with munitions that seemed to be mutagenic to the Sentient substrate, creating bizarre spiraling growths and deep rents in their carapaces.
Bizarre enough, but as the surviving un-Veiled population of the Origin System fled to Veil Proxima and the Far Black, sightings of the kithships skyrocketed exponentially. Three things became clear about them:
They hoarded resources for no discernible purposes.
They guarded their technology with great intensity.
They really, really wanted to keep as far from the Technocyte, Sentients and Narmer as possible.
Equally bizarre, both Dziewanna and the Bidanians confessed to having stable trade relationships with the kithships.
To this day, the kithships jealously guard their secrets from all including the Tenno, save for during Operation Kithship Exodus.
See the attached file on Operation Kithship Exodus for more details.

Footnotes
* Did you write this, Haruka? –Ginebra
And I’ll do it again. ~Haruka
** This is a corruption of the ancient term ‘Kuiper Belt Object’ - the Kuiper Belt is an archaic name for Veil Proxima and the Far Black. ~Haruka Lorne

Stats
Utility:
Type: Rifle
Trigger: Auto
Ammo Type: Primary
Fire rate: 5.25
Noise: Alarming
Magazine: 45
Reload: 3.5

Auto impact:
Total Damage: 84
14 Impact
30 Puncture
40 Slash
Ammo Cost: 1
Critical Chance: 24%
Critical Multiplier: 2.1x
Fire Rate: 5.25
Multishot: 1
Range: 24m
Status Chance: 32%

Auto AoE
Damage: 48 gas
Self stagger: none
Critical Chance: 24%
Critical Multiplier: 2.1x
Fire Rate: 5.25
Multishot: 1
Range: 1.5m
Falloff: 80% damage at 1.5m
Status Chance: 32%
Type: AoE

Shrapnel
Damage: 28
20 Slash
8 puncture
Multishot: 5
Critical Chance: 24%
Critical Multiplier: 2.1x
Fire Rate: 5.25
Status Chance: 20%
Falloff:
100% damage up to 20m (44m total)
40% damage at 30m (54m total)

Artist Notes:
I took the basic silhouette for this from some Destiny concept art.
Also yeah. This was a bit of a weird one. I wasn’t a hundred sure what I would do with this gun for a long time, and then I was thinking about Bucky’s altfire in Valorant, and I thought “okay, that’s pretty dope.” And also, making a projectile that splits midway through its trajectory seemed just Borderlands enough to work, so I added that in here.
And yes, I am making a shotgun based on this.
I think it seemed like an interesting way to cement that this is an SMG with falloff, or at least something falloff-like (?). The explosion was… honestly? I’m not a hundred percent sure. It seemed interesting enough, and I also patterned a lot of the stats here after the Trumna.
Also, full disclosure - there’s a lot of stuff about this I’m playing close to my chest about the lore here. I have a lot of interesting things I want to write about the Kithships for a fanmade event idea, and I’m a little suspicious that I wrote too much here.