Star Trek Romulan Sniper Disruptor

Name: RSD
Model: Romulan Sniper Disruptor
Type: energy weapon
Scale: character
Length: 1 m
Weight: 1.1 kg
Skill: Blaster: Disruptor Rifle
Ammo: 500
Range: 5-150/300/600 m
Damage: Varies Based on setting

Setting	Setting Name	Damage	Charges Used
1	Light Stun	2D+1 (Stun)	1
2	Heavy Stun	3D (Stun)	2
3	Light Thermal	2D	8
4	Heavy Thermal	2D+2	15
5	Light Disrupt	4D	35
6	Heavy Disrupt	7D+2	100

Firing Modes

• Standard mode is the one typically used. It does the weapon's basic damage.

• Continuous fire mode involves maintaining a beam for longer than normal, making it easier to hit the target. This provides +1D to roll when making an attack Test to hit the target. Pulse phasers cannot fire in continuous mode.

Mode	Notes	Charges
Standard Beam	Base Damage	-
Continuous Beam	Fire Control: +1D	+2

Description: Originally developed by the Romulan Tal Diann, this weapon has since been copied throughout the galaxy and come into a fairly wide spread use among assassins. Unlike most energy weapons, which are effective over a relatively short range, this weapon uses special magnetic focusing lenses to compact its plasma beam, thus maintaining beam coherence over a much longer range. However, the lenses also prevent it from being used in pulse-fire or wide-beam modes. Continuous fire is still possible, though it runs the risk of causing a lens failure and weapons explosion (if a character rolls a 1 on the Wild Die on his Skill test when firing the RSD in continuous-fire mode, the weapon explodes with the standard effects for such and explosion).

Persistent rumors among the underworld say that "someone" is trying to develop a way to jacket the RSD plasma beam in an annular confinement beam to give the weapon even greater range. If so, this powerful advancement has not yet appeared on the battlefield.

Source:

• Star Trek DS9 RPG Raiders, Renegades and Rogues(pages 78-79)
• thedemonapostle