Across the storm-ridden trade routes and salvage-riddled outposts of the Starfall Galaxy, the Arc Pistol has earned a reputation as both a tool and a warning. Technicians wield these bulky, capacitor-powered sidearms to clear malfunctioning drones, but spacer gangs flash polycarbon stocks tinted warning yellow when trouble flares in Rift station corridors. Its insulator grip is etched with the galaxy’s high-voltage symbol—a promise, and a threat, to keep the reckless at bay. Legends say the current discharged is enough to stun a synth enforcer, and a practiced Arc Duelist might use a pistol’s crackling arcs for more than self-defense: sabotage, ritualized guild tests, and wild tech duels in neon-lit alleys.
No voidfarer trusts a Rift gate without an Arc Pistol within reach. The shock group’s critical effect—stunning opponents with a rogue bolt—has become a staple tactic, whether dispersing xeno-wildlife, sabotaging rival maglocks, or improvising in the snarl of a docking bay riot.
Arc Pistol Weapon 0+
Source Player Core pg. 265
Price 25c; Damage 1d4 Electricity; Range 30ft, Bulk 1
Reload Single Action; Magazine 10; Expend 2
Hands 1; Upgrades 1
Category Simple
Group shock
Arc Pistols are simple ranged weapons, common in the hands of engineers, mercenaries, and civilians trained for survival across Starfall’s fraught regions. Their electrical arc makes them useful outside combat: disabling malfunctioning technology, clearing salvage hazards, and even conducting jury-rigged repairs in the absence of safer tools.
Critical Specialization Effects
Certain feats, class features, weapon runes, and other effects can grant you additional benefits when you make a Strike with certain weapons and get a critical success. This is called a critical specialization effect. The exact effect depends on which weapon group your weapon belongs to, as listed below. You can always decide not to add the critical specialization effect of your weapon.
Shock The target must succeed at a Fortitude save against your class DC or be Stunned 1.
Societal Impact and Hooks
Arc Pistols are status symbols for scavengers, technicians, and guild agents, often customized or ornamented to mark reputation.
Their use in sabotage and tech duels is recognized throughout guild circles.
Jury-rigged arc weapons are common on black markets and in borderland salvage fairs.
All factions accept Arc Pistols as standard emergency gear, a testament to the galaxy’s perilous reliance on unstable technology.
Adventure Seeds
Sabotage runs in undercity marketplaces, where rival scavenger crews battle to disable security drones.
Neon-lit tech duels between guild apprentices, where stun capacity determines the victor.
Urgent repair missions, where a reactor breach requires arc weapon mastery.
In Starfall, the Arc Pistol is more than a sidearm—it’s the spark of survival, a neon symbol of hope and danger in a galaxy forever stalked by decay.
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