Just when you thought you were going to have a stress-free day, where all you have to do is take off your space piloting gloves and sit down for some hard earned refreshment at the local seedy watering hole, then some jack wagon comes up looking for a fight.
Now, you weren’t looking for trouble when you walked in there, so you’d decided to only throw on that holdout blaster that seemed just right for such an occasion. After all, it was compact and fit well in the hand, despite all the mods you did to it, dialing it up to match more powerful weapons. Sure, it didn’t have the range, but you weren’t likely to face off against a sniper with it while gunning for that next glass of firewater. You brought it for those times when you needed a thing but didn’t want to look like you had the thing.
Patterned after small, two shot pistols from the American Old West, hold out pistols became increasingly more complex with the advent of revolvers, then semi-automatic handguns. When mankind chased their destiny into the stars, there was still a need for small, concealable weapons. After all, there were still people, and now aliens, who were just as angry that some spacer took their spot at the bar.
When Tyrus Rech would go on a walkabout looking to settle things up or just top blend into a crowd, he often took his Python medium holdout blaster with him. The weapon was short and snub nosed, with a charge pack that fit into the body and didn’t increase the overall length or width of the weapon. Rechs had made numerous mods to the blaster, such that it could hold a decent amount of shots while retaining the lethality someone like him needed.
Prowling the space ports on Red Eye, the bounty hunter kept the blaster pistol rather than one of his more identifiable weapons because it had been so readily available to the kinds of pilots that flew into this port of call. Only the naïve or truly judgment impaired flew into anywhere on Red Eye unarmed.
Knowing our relentless hunter like we do, Rechs used the unassuming holdout blaster to finish off several people trying to do him in during the Lizaar withdrawal from the planet. Find out how in Mephisto’s Game!
Another excellent lore drop.