Those hellfire rifles are mean bastards. Standard weapon of the standard trooper. Fires a prism-focused laser that'll melt through any mundane material. Toast the side of your face off too if you don't hold it right.
That prism is coated to contain the unholy levels of radiation that bounce around in there. Can't say how well it does at that, because no troopers live long enough to develop cancer. But some nut jobs actually scrape the coating off to get a hotter blast out of it. Kill things easier. Or at least messier.
Problem is, you keep heating that little son-of-a-bitch beyond what it was intended to take and one day it's gonna explode. And this ain't no sparking refrigerator. This blast of radiation so intense that it won't just reduce you to a smoking skeleton, but your whole squad and your troop carrier too.
So if you ever hear anyone complaining their hellfire isn't as hot as it could be, request a transfer.
Paddy Dobson
8th June 2023