"Here, I have tapered the barrel of this weapon from 1 to .

6, with the powder

needed to propel a round with a caliber of no less than 3. The recoil is horrific,
even despite the recoil baffling I have applied to the stock, to the point where my
test soldiers prefer nerve stapling to testing the weapon for fear of shattered
shoulders. The barrel also becomes incredibly hot after even a single firing, with
two to three becoming sufficiently warm to melt the barrel. In addition, the weapon
has a roughly 30% failure rate on the first pull, reaching roughly 50% on the
second, with a misfire explosion not occurring once in every five thousand three
hundred and seventy three tests on the third pull.

For these dangers however, I have created a man-portable weapon with unparalleled
penetrative capacity. Theoretically, it can pierce a Landraider' frontal armor at
100 meters, though I have yet to test this hypothesis with a satisfactory degree of
accuracy."