Section 99 Factsheets - Weapons of the Freelands

Welcome to the Jane's Manual for Section 99.

A friend of mine likes to describe Section 99 as a 'universe of things,' a place where the history is told through the things people build and make. I try my best in crafting the stories to make the objects and the technology have a tangible feel- ergonomics, weight, balance, texture. And, in today's case, recoil profiles.

Welcome to one of the first looks at the guns of the Freelands, in detail. If you've been reading the Section 99 stories, you might at least know the rough details of a few of these things, but now, I'm striving to go a step further and make them more tangible. Because after all, Section 99 isn't far future, it's an alternate present, a version of our reality where our timeline was disconnected by a sudden opportunistic alien invasion occurring immediately after the end of World War 2- while some of these weapons are bleeding edge future tech, many of them are just us trying to relearn how to do things as well as we used to. That includes making guns that shoot hardened ballistic slugs to make the aforementioned interstellar fascists fuck off out of our new homeland.

Here you go, enjoy. And if you don't know all that much about firearms, trust me, I've done what I've can to make this stuff be punchy otherwise.

First, a couple of really common pistols- in text, you've absolutely seen these two, they're absolutely every-goddamn-where in the Setting.

Less common is the Sentinel series, but still used. Also, on the right, we have Telin's choice of personal sidearm. She doesn't mess around.

The Garou is a rifle that lives on the open range of planetary colonies, about as much of a tack-driver as it looks. Meanwhile, on the right, is the Rastorguyev, the teleportation accident that fused the AK47 and the AR15 into the same rifle within the Terran Timeline. It goes basically anywhere it pleases.

The Isana was built to shoot at subjects and Freelanders; it was rebuilt to shoot back at the Consortium. Bleak has a custom one, with a heavy rotary barrel and a backpack ammo feed. Meanwhile, the Guillotine isn't any adaptation- it's pure Freelander righteous indignation, fitted with a fixed stock.

The Jackal is a nominally noble-purposed PDW that frequently gets used for nefarious purposes- the Hijackers from the Internal Logic of Evildoing intended to themselves with a set of them, for instance. The Nomad is the result of folks looking at the Jackal and saying "what if we built that thing, but simpler?"

The Aranha is as it seems: a throwback to the simple functionality of a World War 2-era submachine gun, in a package that's featherweight and also doesn't rattle. The Solarex is a 2000 round per minute pulse laser lmao. That's the best way I have of describing it.

Finally, the weapon that traumatized Taino from Van's first person view, a pistol that even Freelanders see as slightly demonic. Then, on the right, a fittingly named weapon. Because whats' its heel? It fires 10 gauge, and who the fuck stocks 10 gauge these days??