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Plasma Rifle (UNSC-Type)

This is an attempt I drew at speculating what the type-25 directed energy rifle (or plasma rifle) would look like as a UNSC, rather than Covenant weapon. I obviously made it bulkier than the Covenant ones, since human plasma technology would probably be considerably bulkier and more cumbersome than alien weapons that probably took centuries or even millennia to perfect and advance upon.

The UNSC plasma rifle (or perhaps SPARTAN Plasma Gun) derives aspects from both the SPARTAN Laser and the Plasma Repeater, the new Covenant weapon from Halo Reach. The UNSC weapon may be semi-auto, as again the more primitive human-built plasma technology would overheat faster and take longer to recharge and cycle through.

But how the humans acquired said technology is an enigma...perhaps itwas the next stage of their fusion technology, or was perhaps (judging by the familiar two-pronged design common in Covenant plasma weaponry) reverse-engineered from Covenant rifles. Well the UNSC could reverse-engineer energy shields to create the SPARTAN ones, so it'd be only a matter of time before they'd advance to the point where they actually do reverse-engineer plasma weaponry. I've always wondered why they never were able to during the entirety of the Halo trilogy.

Not too happy with how this turned out, but then again it only took me about 30 minutes to draw.

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Drawing is 2010 Chris Ädren