Tri Shot

The Tri Shot is a triple barrel mulipurpose shotgun used by the Interplanetary Systems Alliance.

Function
The Tri Shot was born as an ad hoc weapon by desperate ISA troops during the first stages of the Singulus Invasion. The first prototype was a marriage of plumbing parts and wires assembled to create a crude but effective weapon. Essentially three tubes wired and soldered together with a firing mechanism, the Tri Shot nonetheless proved its worth due its versatility in a time of crisis.

The weapon is unique not only for its three firing tubes, but in that the tubes can take different types of ammunition from different weapon systems. While a Tri Shot can take shotgun shells loaded with standard buckshot or slugs, the Tri Shot will also take 30mm grenades, explosive tipped ammunition, and the primitive gunpowder and shrapnel combination. This has been used to devastating effect against enemy troops because low skilled civilians can easily be trained to shoot the weapon and support local military units in a time of war.

With the weapon finding success in engagement after engagement with Singulus troops, ISA engineers refined the weapon with a selective rotary firing system and a crack open loading mechanism for easy and fast reloading. Pilots and soldiers using the weapon often load multiple types of ammunition to handle different types of mission profiles. Colony militas often use the Tri Shot due to its low cost, its high versatility, and the availability of 3D blueprints over the Intergalactic Civilian Network.