Luciano, Nicholas "Nickels": Difference between revisions

** '''Non-Lethal Weapons Development''' - During his deployment on the [[USS Independence-A]], Nickels undertook a project to develop non-lethal weaponry that could be deployed against a group of pirates that had stolen a Starfleet vessel, the USS Phoenix.  He was proud of the designs he created and deployed, and was all the more shocked when none were used.  The incursion into the Phoenix was a bloodbath, with the Independence's Marines and command staff using lethal force at every opportunity.  Since then, Nickels has become something of an obsessive materials engineer, a mad genius in his own way.  He is constantly utilizing modern technology in new ways to develop ways to stun, baffle, batter, dazzle, befuddle, heckle and incapacitate.  Among some of his more innovative ideas are a stun grenade called the ''Beatdown Ball'', a specialized gel round for the TR-116 that deploys a shock heavy enough to discomfit a [[Nausicaan]], an ocarina-sized sonic weapon called the ''Missile Whistle'' that creates a compressed audio wave that strikes with physical force, and the ''Tesserbat'', a construction of folded rodinium plates and a tektite core that uses kinetic energy to assemble itself into a regulation-length baseball bat when one swings the handle.