Merge pull request #18738 from pudl/ka-desc

Improves the KA description
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Cheridan
2016-06-20 17:12:42 -05:00
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/obj/item/weapon/gun/energy/kinetic_accelerator
name = "proto-kinetic accelerator"
desc = "According to Nanotrasen accounting, this is mining equipment. \
It's been modified for extreme power output to crush rocks, but often \
serves as a miner's first defense against hostile alien life; it's not \
very powerful unless used in a low pressure environment.\n\
It uses an experimental self-charging cell powered by the user's \
bioelectrical field. The downside of this is that it quickly discharges \
when not in direct contact with a user, and multiple accelerators can \
interfere with each other."
desc = "In the year 2544, only a year after the discovery of a potentially \
world-changing substance, now colloquially referred to as plasma, the \
Nanotrasen-UEG mining conglomerate introduced a prototype of a gun-like \
device intended for quick, effective mining of plasma in the low \
pressures of the solar system. Included in this presentation were \
demonstrations of the gun being fired at collections of rocks contained \
in vacuumed environments, obliterating them instantly while maintaining \
the structure of the ores buried within them. Additionally, volunteers \
were called from the crowd to have the gun used on them, only proving that \
the gun caused little harm to objects in standard pressure. \n\
An official from an unnamed, now long dissipated company observed this \
presentation and offered to share their self-recharger cells, powered \
by the user's bioelectrical field, another new and unknown technology. \
They warned that the cells were incredibly experimental and several times \
had injured workers, but the scientists as Nanotrasen were unable to resist \
the money-saving potential of self recharging cells. Upon accepting this \
offer, it took only a matter of days to prove the volatility of these cells, \
as they exploded left and right whenever inserted into the prototype devices, \
only throwing more money in the bin. \n\
Whenever the Nanotrasen scientists were on the edge of giving up, a \
breakthrough was made by head researcher Miles Parks McCollum, who \
demonstrated that the cells could be stabilized when exposed to radium \
then cooled with cryostylane. After this discovery, the low pressure gun, \
now named the Kinetic Accelerator, was hastily completed and made compatible \
with the self-recharging cells. As a result of poor testing, the currently \
used guns lose their charge when not in use, and when two Kinetic Accelerators \
come in proximity of one another, they will interfere with each other. Despite \
this, the shoddy guns still see use in the mining of plasma to this day."
icon_state = "kineticgun"
item_state = "kineticgun"
ammo_type = list(/obj/item/ammo_casing/energy/kinetic)