Dense Wave Guns

The Dense Wave Rifle is larger than the Dense Wave Pistol. Comparing those 2 models you see on the table, the rifle weights about 5 times the weight of the pistol. Aside that, main difference in reach.

The pistol can be regulated to reach up to 5 km. The rifle, up to 900.000 km. Makes practical difference in very limited number of circumstances that almost never came up. Sounds like a lot, though.

Dense Waves are extra-terrestrial technology, still. They “move” (for the lack of better word) 5 times the velocity of light, but have no mass. Go in straight line and for all practical purposes almost anything in that line disappears without trace. One nanometre ahead the reach of the shot, the DW has no effect. Wouldn’t pop a soap bubble. Due to that characteristics DW machines as used to excavate tunnels for elevators and trains, deep underground.

Those 2 weapons you see here are thousands of years old, they can be used for centuries at the time without recharge. Also, those things are practically indestructible. Interestingly, they have no metallic parts to be detected by any metal detector used by wild humans nowadays.

Your need almost 1 second between shots with the pistol, and between every 30 shots with the rifle. That is the only disadvantage I can think about, comparing those toys with fire weapons fabricated by wild human nations on Earth.

Mind you, even the bulky .50 machineguns have little effect against some elder vampires. A light automatic rifle will only slow down a young vampire a little, if aimed strategically. Effect improves after the children of the night expend enough blood healing the injuries made by your bullets. Still, your prospects are suboptimal when you must trust light fire weapons against vampires.

One shot with any of those in the head or in the hearth will stop most vampire elders. Almost any of them.

Is impossible to destroy a vampire permanently with DW weapons, regardless of how old the vampire is, but you can drop almost any one of them immediately. For a while.

There are a few materials and devices made by societies that have DW tech, that are capable to block DW. Force-field generators, some ceramic alloy. A few vampiric powers are able to provide defence against Dense Waves too, by variated means, but those are even rarer than weapons like that are on our planet. Vampire families with access to Dense Wave technology can usually get the defences against it also.

This is interesting! Because, when we understand the kind of extraterrestrial civilizations earthling vampires have access to. Negotiate with. The immediate question that first emerges is “why don’t we see things like that everywhere?”

Most vampires never learn how to use a DW pistol. Not until they are hundreds of thousands of years old, at least. If ever.

Despite how efficient it is, technology like that is used inside vampire domains. To defend against invasion by other vampiric families. Or to assault with intention of plunder or conquer those strongholds. You hardly ever see those things in any other circumstance.

If you understand why, you started deciphering the way vampires who are over 1 million years old think.

The objective fact to take under consideration, knowledge provided to vampiric society by Vampire Clerics, is this: the native technology produced in any Pocket of Life acts as a clock for the vigilance system set by the Creator Race that designed our universe billions of years ago.

When native technology reaches a specific level of development the system sterilizes the entire Pocket. Which may include only one planet, or several star systems spread through the galaxy. Few individuals are given the privilege of escape. Everyone else die. Vampires are allowed to slow down the development of science and technology among wild humans up to a degree. However, that is a limited measure.

One thing they can do is about help wild human development. Not leaking gadgets that could be reengineered by wild human scientists.

Every time you carry a piece of tech like that through territory outside vampiric control you risk losing the item by accident. It can be found and reverse-engineered by wild humans before any vampire realizes something was lost.

Them, can be too late. Earthling humanity will have speeded up its technological advancement. With that, also, its extinction in the hands of powers of extra-dimensional scale. And the destruction of most vampires born as humans on Earth. That is the reason why the use of extraterrestrial tech outside rigid parameters of security is a serious taboo in Nocturnal Society.

Young vampires incapable to really understand this explanation simply accept the will of their elders. Besides, they cannot hope to get access to a DW without elder permission, anyway.