Scrap Gun

A Scrap Gun is a two-handed industrial launcher built to hurl loose metal debris at extreme short range, relying on volume and chaos rather than precision. The standardised model balances weight and capacity, carrying a larger mass of scrap per discharge without becoming unwieldy to operate. While its effectiveness still collapses against proper armour, the increased number of projectiles makes avoidance difficult and impact inevitable when it connects. It is the most common pattern in service, valued not for refinement but for reliability — when a Scrap Gun works, it works completely.

The Scrap Gun began life as an Industrial Industries scrap compressor, intended to compact broken fasteners and waste fragments directly into structural forms. The pressures required proved unstable, repeatedly breaching containment and ejecting debris with violent enthusiasm. Troll engineers survived the incidents often enough to recognise a pattern, and then a possibility. The compressor was abandoned, the breach embraced, and the device was repurposed into what became known — officially and unapologetically — as the Scrap Gun.