Handheld Graviton Accelerator
The Mining Tool Known as the Force Gun
The Handheld Graviton Accelerator, better known as the Force Gun, was a short range kinetic mining tool that blasted rock apart and shifted debris in zero gravity. Survivors of the Necromorph outbreaks used its concussive blast to hurl the creatures back and tear off their limbs.
The Handheld Graviton Accelerator, commonly called the Force Gun, was a short range kinetic mining tool used aboard the planet cracking fleet and later carried by survivors of the Necromorph outbreaks. Like the Plasma Cutter and the Line Gun, it was a piece of industrial equipment turned to a use its makers never intended. (Dead Space; Dead Space 2; Dead Space (2023))
Design and mining function#
The Force Gun was a short range kinetic booster device. Its role in mining operations was to deliver blasting power beyond that of conventional explosive charges, which made it suited to precise terraforming work. Miners used it to shatter rock into smaller pieces, to send stone between workers during zero gravity operations, and to deflect wayward rocks away from crews working in open space. (Dead Space)
As its name suggests, the tool worked by graviton acceleration. Its description in the 2023 remake warns that overclocking it could cause a dangerous gravitational reaction, pulling debris and nearby operators in. (Dead Space (2023))
Use against the Necromorphs#
In the hands of survivors during the outbreaks, the Force Gun functioned much like a shotgun at close range. Its primary discharge threw a wide kinetic blast that struck everything in front of it, with greater force the closer the target stood. Against tougher Necromorphs the blast rarely tore them apart outright, but it knocked them back and bought space in a desperate fight. Against frailer creatures the same blast could shear off limbs or scatter a swarm. (Dead Space; Dead Space 2; Dead Space (2023))
The tool's secondary function differs from game to game. In Dead Space it launched a slow moving concussive bomb that exploded on contact, or rolled and burst after a few seconds if it struck nothing. In Dead Space 2 it fired a narrow beam that could punch through several Necromorphs lined up together. The 2023 remake of Dead Space gives it a gravity well instead, which pulls nearby creatures toward a fixed point and holds them there briefly, leaving them open to other attacks. In the remake, Isaac finds his Force Gun on the Hydroponics deck of the USG Ishimura, beside a dead scientist. (Dead Space; Dead Space 2; Dead Space (2023))
Sources
- GameDead Space, EA Redwood Shores, 2008
- GameDead Space 2, Visceral Games, 2011
- GameDead Space (2023), Motive Studio, 2023 (remake)
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Line Gun
The IM-822 Handheld Ore Cutter Line Gun was a wide-beamed mining tool built to shear apart heavy ore that lighter equipment could not cut. Survivors of the Necromorph outbreaks repurposed its broad horizontal beam and its laser mines as a weapon.
Plasma Cutter
The Plasma Cutter was a family of handheld mining tools built to cut through ore and rock with a focused bolt of ionized plasma. Compact and precise, it became the most common improvised weapon of survivors during the Necromorph outbreaks.
Necromorph
Necromorphs were aggressive creatures formed when the Markers' electromagnetic signal reshaped dead tissue into monstrous new forms. Driven to kill the living and gather corpses for Convergence, they were the recurring plague that destroyed the Aegis VII colony, the USG Ishimura, and Titan Station.
USG Ishimura
The USG Ishimura was the flagship of the Concordance Extraction Corporation and the first Planet Cracker-class mining ship. After recovering Marker 3A from Aegis VII in 2508, it became the site of a catastrophic Necromorph outbreak that wiped out its crew and bound its name to the history of the Markers.
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