Late-arriving observations:

>
>It isn't entirely clear why the elder Inazuma bought the gun,
>since, according to her notes, it didn't actually work at the
>time; its servo-assisted loading mechanism had long since failed, its
>action had seized, and someone had tried to "officially" demilitarize
>it by removing the firing pin and filling the barrel with lead.
>Perhaps she simply wanted a project to fill the time during a
>long-haul hyperflight to the Rim...
>

Given her need to keep focused, it's likely that Azula really did buy it as a time-filler. Rehabilitating a firearm is definitely a "don't screw up" sort of project..

>
>Some time after that, she grew tired of constantly having to hunt for
>and/or scratchbuild its scarce ammunition and converted it into a
>blaster using the MorganArms CCRE-I system.
>

...and so is the CCRE conversion, given the comment on nanofusion breeders.

>
>VES/lts
>

I may be misreading that second set of initials, but it looks like Liara said yes.

Peter Eng
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