In which I tried something a little different to try to get back into drawing, and revised a very old, one-off weapon design that appeared as a small part of a long-forgotten refsheet for Ridgeback nomad Rhill back in 2014.

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Compact Light Carbine, a weapon that would very much be common loot in any video game exploring the space aspects of my universe.

Mass-produced and the standard-issue weapon for all variety of military and security personnel, police forces and offworld colonists, and just as easily acquired by just about anyone else, this carbine is a robust, reliable, lightweight, common, and cheap blaster weapon. Firepower, fire rate, accuracy and range are adequate, but unremarkable.

The butt stock is foldable, and the barrel assembly snaps into the stock assembly, making both breaking down the carbine for compact storage and reassembling it for use quick and easy. In my original design for the weapon I commented that the power cell may also snap inside the forward grip, but for this redesign I realized that's probably not the best idea in general, and in particular for a weapon whose barrel snaps into the rest of the weapon, so I moved the slot for the power cell into the handle/grip like one would see on many terrestrial firearms.

It was sorta fun to take a design that was originally a very simple gun-shaped assortment of shapes and update it into something that looks and feels like it could actually be a real, functional weapon.