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M3X-600 Cerberus heavy weapon ME2 wallpaperby ~rex3cutor

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After watching the final "movie"-sequence in Mass Effect 2, where the reapers came to life at the boarder of the galaxy, I had only one reaction: Damnit, we need bigger guns.
The same thought came to me later after seeing the new husks, specialy the brutes und banshees. So after some time, reading something about coil-guns, gatling guns and more on wikipedia and playing Crysis 2 (you can rip off a cal .50 for temporary use) I came up with the idea to combine all these for a new heavy weapon, that is not in the Mass Effect world

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So this is the M3X-600 Cerberus. It´s a very, very heavy cal .50 coil gun invented by the alliance in cooperation with Hahne Kedar and the special forces from N7. The keys mean:
- M - Maschine Gun
- 3 - three barrels
- X - eXperimantal
- 600 - theoretical cadence
- Cerberus - The greek hellhound, how guards the gate to the underworld. It has nothing to do with the organization.

Even if its fully made of carbon, aluminium, titanium and other light weight materials it`s very difficult to handle cause of the dimensions and the weight. But it has enough firepower to stop every enemy, even a light tank

. Only a human (cyborg) like Shepard or a Krogan can handle it efficiently. It can fire full-metal, sabot, explosive and other rounds from special drum mags or a chain with nearly mach 20. That means nearly 24000 km/h. If you get hit by something like this, it literaly ruins your day :-D. The gun is full modular, so parts can be replaced very fast without tools, even in the heat of the battle. For better usability it has a displays between the handles for status informations and a holographical interface above the barrels, which shows the barreltemps and the risk of overheating.

I know, that this monster is not canonical. Other fans ride great storys ore created their own characters, but I´m not good at this, so I create guns and tech

. It took me nearly 60h from Christmas 2011 until now to finish it. It also was the first time I used bodypaint from Cinema 4d for texturing a full model and I´m really happy with the result and I hope you like it to.

Gun design and work is by me. The World of Mass Effect is EA and Bioware. I only used them.

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~malgrumm Feb 4, 2012

nice! but i imagine that the heat from this would also hurt the user as well.....they have to hold it rather close to them right?

~rex3cutor Feb 4, 2012

Thank you and THX for the fav

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To prevent heat-injuries it is designed only for right-handers and has a big ventialation on the left side to cool the gun down

. Also there are the Interfaces, that informes the user when the gun reach critical temps.

~malgrumm Feb 5, 2012

oh i see!

~rex3cutor Feb 5, 2012

~malgrumm Feb 6, 2012

there's still one thing i cant stop thinking tho.....even tho it has the vent on the left side the weapon as a whole would still feel really hot to the person wielding it even with the vent on the left side.....wouldnt it?

~rex3cutor Feb 6, 2012

You´re right. The vent can´t kill all the heat, so you have to be carefull by using these tipe of gun. It´s better you fire them in salvos then duration

. By the way, most of the heat occurs on the barrels, cause there are the coils for acceleration. In the body there are 'only' the engine and computersystems.

~malgrumm Feb 8, 2012

it would be a magnet for heat seeking missles....provided they still use them inthe ME universe

~rex3cutor Feb 9, 2012

lets say heat is a general problem with miniguns. but hey, no risk, no fun

. Maybe I should add some flares to be prepared

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~RickF7666 Feb 3, 2012

Interesting design. Looking at it I was thinking it could benefit from some sort of harness or shoulder strap. It's mostly symmetrical design, with the exception of the blast shield, would make it work for lefties as well as right handers.

~rex3cutor Feb 3, 2012

Thank you and thanks for the fav.

You´re right. A shoulder strap could be helpfull, but first I have to learn how to make one with Cinema

. Deep in my mind there is a full armor specially made for this monster which supports the shooter. The gun itself is specially made for rigth handers (all the characters in the game are right handers

). The front grip can only mounted right and on the left side there is a heat ventilation. If someone stands there he would be grilled after short time.

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