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The Matuvistan Army equips its ground soldiers with a well-rounded list of relatively standardised equipment, but some forces carry more exotic or peculiar gear. 

[b]Melee Weapons:[/b]

Yes, despite everything, the Matuvistan Army still has melee weapons in their arsenal. 

[b]Bayonet:[/b]
Not good enough for the old world, but very much good enough for the new world. The bayonet is largely unchanged over four hundred years: a sharp, pointy bit of metal attached to the end of your gun.

[b]Breaching Axe:[/b]
Technically a multitool rather than a weapon, the breaching axe has seen combat usage so many times that such usage is now specifically designed in to the weapon. Originally designed to enter emergency naval toolkits, the breaching axe was often used whenever combat spilled out in ships, a legacy that has led to it being a staple of the Matuvistan Marines, many of whom proudly carry a breaching axe into battle.

[b]Sabre:[/b]
Yes, really. Gone extinct but for ceremony in the old world, cheap, easy to manufacture machete-like-sabres were a constant presence during Matuvista's dictatorial history. These sabres often had red fabric wrapped around their hilts to show their wielders as holding the authority of life and death over others. So ingrained has the idea of sabres been in the Matuvistan consciousness that Marine officers routinely requested them as a sign of rank over their breaching-axe bearing subordinates, and they're an important part of a patrician's ceremonial dress in almost every occasion. They also make good champagne bottle openers.

[b]Plasma Lance:[/b]
Expensive. Intricate. Lethal. The plasma lance is perhaps the most iconic element of Matuvistan weaponry, carried exclusively by jetknights flying into battle. When unpowered, a plasma lance consists of a relatively small handguard and handle, able to be magnetically attached to a jetbike, or supported against a Patrician's body. Matuvistan lances generally measure between two and three metres long, with their exact length customised depending on the individual patrician who wields the weapon.

When powered on, the handle acts as the power and containment relay for a shaped plasma charge. Suspended in a highly agitated lodestone field, the plasma 'bottles up,' its energy trapped like champagne in a shaken bottle. When the magnetic field comes into contact with anything other than air, this bottled energy is released in the direction of the containment's breaking, causing a spike of superheated plasma to escape out. Very few physical defences can stand up to such a high-intensity blast, and certainly nothing a jetknight has cause to fight on Matuvista and its moons.

[b]Ranged Weaponry:[/b]

[b]SBR[/b]
[b]S[/b]tandard [b]B[/b]attle [b]R[/b]ifle. Despite centuries of innovation, Matuvista has kept coming back to the SBR series, even as it is changed and modified over the years. The SBR is a fully automatic battle rifle (although almost everybody considers it an assault rifle,) designed to be lightweight, cheap to manufacture, and yet also reliable and powerful. Despite coming in many variants, the baseline SBR has a chunky and heavy-duty 35 round magazine designed to smash through concrete, body armour, and civilian vehicles. Although a surprisingly lightweight gun considering the large bullets it fires, the SBR's large, 9mm full-sized rifle ammunition is heavy to carry in large quantities and required significant engineering around. The only reason why the gun can fire such a powerful and large round is due to a complicated yet extremely rugged and resistant recoil compensation system that redirects barrel gasses to counteract the gun's rise, and a much more delicate stock that reduces the thundering impact on a soldier's shoulder.

[b]SBR-C[/b]
The SBR's carbine variant is several inches more compact, something it managed by actually going down to an intermediate calibre. Although less powerful than the SBR, its smaller size and lighter weight makes it easier to carry around large quantities of its smaller ammunition. This makes it a favourite of ISOCs and other specialist ground-forces who lack the advantage of short supply lines and/or void-borne deployment. 

[b]SBR-S[/b]
The SBR-S is a variant of a variant, namely, the SBR-C. Taking the shortened form the SBR-C takes, the SBR-S then adapts the barrel with an integrated suppressor and switches the ammunition to subsonic. This further reduces the velocity of the rounds and leads to a noticeable depreciation in the weapon's range, but does come with the benefit of making a surprisingly quiet weapon. The SBR-C is usually only given when the sound reduction is important.

[b]SBR-O[/b]
The SBR-O is the primary light machine gun wielded in the Matuvistan army, efficiently produced from the same basic form as the SBR. Featuring a longer barrel, bipod, and an even more heavy-duty magazine well that manages to cram seventy-five rounds whilst still being physically fireable, creating the SBR-O was no mean feat. Of course, such a cumbersome weapon has led to several calls to update it, leading to the next weapon...

[b]SBR-OI[/b]
The SBR-OI is a rare weapon to see in the Matuvistan army, normally only given to the best of the best. Using the base form of the SBR-O, the OI relies on a 'Smart Rig' system that incorporates the gun into the wielder's Combat Enhancement Suite, dramatically reducing perceived weight and recoil. This allows for a full 100 round magazine, a heavy-duty heat sink system for the barrel and, most importantly, an 'aim assistant' that allows the gun to self-correct itself and adjust to the movement of targets. Incredibly expensive, large-scale rollouts have been stymied by a lack of internal necessity to continue to improve. Perhaps all these foreign wars will spur on a greater uptake of the OI?

[b]SBMG[/b]
[b]S[/b]tandard [b]B[/b]attle [b]M[/b]achine [b]G[/b]un. Matuvista's general purpose machine gun is a fast-firing and thirsty beast. At a slightly absurdist 12mm, all SBMGs feature a Combat Enhancement Suite integration to allow their wielders to fire what is functionally a small HMG. Despite the utility of a CES though, even they cannot handle the full power of an SBMG, mandating soldiers stick to very small bursts if firing on the move, or set themselves up to lay down prolonged fire. Much like the integration SBR-OI, the SBMG also features heat sinks, but feeds itself with a belt rigged up to the CES.

The SBMG can be seen anywhere that Matuvistan soldiers need more firepower, be that attached to the side of vehicles, carried into battle to break up armoured civilian vehicles or shattering through lightly armoured fortifications. 

[b]SBMG-I[/b]
Just like the SBR, the SBMG also has a 'Smart Rig' system. Unlike the SBR, the increased size and weight of the SBMG means that this modification requires additional attachments to be fitted to the CES, which has caused the SBMG-I to flounder in weapons development without a serious drive to complete it.

[b]SBH[/b]
The SBH is not a common sight among those of the Matuvistan Army, but does have a group that still consistently uses it: Matuvistan Marines. On a real battlefield, the [b]S[/b]tandard [b]B[/b]attle [b]H[/b]andgun's 9mm super pistol round is obviously underpowered when compared to the SBR, but in close quarters ship boarding actions or hand-to-hand combat brought about by hot deployments from the void, the SBH fills a valuable niche. The SBH is also frequently provided to security teams, where it has served dutifully for decades.

[b]Other:[/b]
A very small number of other ballistic weapons are used within the Matuvistan army. Most noticeable of these are the almost entirely ceremonial revolvers that many Patricians still carry about as a sign of prestige and their ranking, some of which have been pressed into combat usage despite their intricate ornamentations.
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