Episode Five
The Egix longrifle is simple, light, and brutal. Its basic design is old, already ancient in ancient times. It’s a firearm stripped down to the core, consisting of a thin, long barrel with rifling along the interior to impart spin on the projectile and a light stock to make the barrel easy to hold and aim. Working off a simple chemical propellant, the Egix longrifle is fired after loading a single shot, usually in a cartridge, though it also accepts muzzle loading with loose gunpowder. It has no magazine or clip, just a basic break action to load a manually fed cartridge.
This might seem terribly inefficient, and in many ways, it is. But it’s also reliable. So long as you have access to a few simple tools, you can make your own cartridges by combining propellant and projecti
