>>Hrm. But they do have metallurgists who are good enough to isolate
>>platinum, and machinists capable of mecha - so perhaps one of said
>>machinists or metallurgists crossed over during that time period to
>>the big universe and decided to put their skills towards this?
>
>There is a small, but thriving, boutique gunsmithing tradition on
>Zipang (antique styling, modern build quality) so it’s not
>implausible that a Diqiu immigrant would get into the trade out of
>curiosity.

I love the idea that in the UF universe, Cobray firearms are high-quality, hand-crafted art object firearms, because the real-life ones were... uh... not that. :)

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