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48. "RE: H2G2: Mojave"
In response to message #19
 
   Oh, hey, forgot to mention: Azula's much-loved sidearm - acquired early in her post-Snowdonia adventuring career, carried from one end of the known galaxy to the other over her long and storied career, checked at the front desk of The Tops above, unconsciously missed in Nothing That Is In Between, and last (so far) seen hanging on a peg in her quarters aboard the Phoenix Queen in Tyrants if They Could - is That Gun.

Originally manufactured by Steyr AG on Earth in the 21st century for issue to officers of the United Earth Bureau of Civil Protection tasked with hunting and neutralizing 33-series infiltration/espionage/assassin Boomers, the Model SL automated* revolver was popularly known, after the common nickname for the BCP's anti-Boomer operatives themselves, as the "Blade Runner". Azula's, serial number 9613, was sold off after the BCP switched to phased plasma weapons in the 2060s and passed through many hands before she bought it in a flea market on New Chiba in 2344.

When she bought it, That Gun didn't actually work; 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. Azula wasn't particularly concerned about that at first, since she was buying it simply to use as a piece of costuming - she was entering a line of work in which a person who isn't carrying a gun is liable to attract more, and less favorable, interest than someone who is carrying a gun.

She eventually fixed it up more or less just to pass the time on a long-haul hyperflight to someplace on the Rim, chasing the first of many dead-end leads, and then taught herself to use it - again, partly to fill the time, and partly because you can never have too many tools in your toolbox. 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. (Blaster conversions for revolvers are actually a pretty cool tech trick in the UF universe. I should do an FD about that sometime.)

By the late 24th century, Steyr SLs had become extremely rare, with only a handful in collections and no others known to be out in the wild. Very occasionally, someone will recognize That Gun and offer her a lot of money for it, but she'd never part with it. For all that she's very rarely actually needed it, it's an old and trusted friend, and has become something of a talisman to her - a fetish object, if you will (and not in the sexual sense of the word). As Captain Sarah L. Inazuma, it's part of her identity. If she'd had it with her, as her muscle memory clearly expected, in Nothing That Is In Between, she'd have realized a lot sooner that strange things were afoot at the Circle K.

--G.
* An "automated" revolver is not the same as an automatic one. It simply means that the cylinder advance and the crane which actuates the cylinder for reloading are servo-assisted, not that the weapon has an automatic fire mode.
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