"Doesn't take much imagination, does it?" Shepard replies, "Experience is a hell of a teacher; you get the lesson after the test. I'm a lot nicer."
She's not kind, but Shepard does see herself as fair, at least. She'll warn you before she blows you away, even if only the once.
"Modern weaponry is mostly about power and convenience," She gestures down-range, where Claude's shot has taken a chunk off the wooden outline of a human form. She considers the divot with a weather eye; it was only plywood, imaginary plywood at that, but his aim had been pretty good for a first try, "Say you're in a fight, and that's all you've got. Even if you're quick, it'd take at least a minute or two to reload. This, on the other hand..."
She touches the quiescent form of her own pistol, the weapon retracted into its most compact form, not even recognizable as a handgun by anyone who didn't know better.
"...Can fire twenty-four times before needing a pause, and can penetrate armor. Honestly, I usually carry something with a lot more stopping power; even heavy pistols are the small fries," She racks the pistol, one deadly weapon among many, and turns back, "Free Cities military standard issue is a rifle, which you're consequentially a lot more likely to encounter; it's got a real kick to it. Still, it's a shit starting place for a military professional, so unless you got any questions, let's see you hit that target a few dozen more times."
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She's not kind, but Shepard does see herself as fair, at least. She'll warn you before she blows you away, even if only the once.
"Modern weaponry is mostly about power and convenience," She gestures down-range, where Claude's shot has taken a chunk off the wooden outline of a human form. She considers the divot with a weather eye; it was only plywood, imaginary plywood at that, but his aim had been pretty good for a first try, "Say you're in a fight, and that's all you've got. Even if you're quick, it'd take at least a minute or two to reload. This, on the other hand..."
She touches the quiescent form of her own pistol, the weapon retracted into its most compact form, not even recognizable as a handgun by anyone who didn't know better.
"...Can fire twenty-four times before needing a pause, and can penetrate armor. Honestly, I usually carry something with a lot more stopping power; even heavy pistols are the small fries," She racks the pistol, one deadly weapon among many, and turns back, "Free Cities military standard issue is a rifle, which you're consequentially a lot more likely to encounter; it's got a real kick to it. Still, it's a shit starting place for a military professional, so unless you got any questions, let's see you hit that target a few dozen more times."