Lodestar

Lodestar
Attributes
Season	26
Type	Trace Rifle
Slot	Energy
Ammo	Primary
Rarity	Exotic
Damage Type	Arc
Foundry	?????
Archetype	?????
Description	Potentia ex nihilo.
Statistics
Impact	6
Range	+5 76
Stability	+15 95
Handling	+20 78
Reload Speed	+10 65
Rounds Per Minute	1000
Magazine	74
Zoom	17
Inventory Size	52
Aim Assistance	90
Airborne Effectiveness	29
Recoil	95

"76" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 5.

"95" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 15.

"65" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 10.

"78" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 20.

Acquisition
	Season Pass Reward

Lodestar PvP Stats

Lodestar is a Exotic Trace Rifle.

Perks - Curated Roll

Intrinsic

• Starlight Beam - This weapon fires a low-intensity Arc beam with enhanced stability and accuracy.

Sight / Barrel

• Fluted Barrel - Ultra-light barrel.
  • Greatly increases Handling Speed.
  • Slightly increases Stability.

Magazine / Battery

• 35px Phase Converter - When aiming down sights, the beam is compressed into short, high-energy bursts that interact with targets affected by Arc debuffs, dealing increased damage and causing them to detonate into blinding explosions on final blows.

Trait 1

• 35px Arc Alignment - Dealing Arc damage from any source aligns the battery's coils. When alignment is complete, [Alternate Weapon Action] to disengage the safety and enable hip-fired Starlight Beam to apply Jolt to any targets damaged for a short time. Aim down sights to slow the rate at which the battery drains.

Trait 2

• Composite Stock - This weapon has a versatile dual-purpose stock.
  • Slightly increases Stability.
  • Slightly increases Handling Speed.

How to Obtain

Detailed explanation on how to acquire Lodestar

Lore

Potentia ex nihilo.

Shimizu, Hassan. Private papers under elliptic-curve cryptographic lock.

Discourse on the political realities of the City is suppressed. My last seven papers have been rejected by every major journal on Earth, surely the work of private censors.

Should I try to continue my work on CDM or enter the field of more direct paracausal studies, I'm sure to remain unpublished. Hari-5's unproven speculation that only OWL Sector is allowed to study Darkness among mortal researchers seems increasingly likely to be correct.

Within my lifetime, I have seen cultural shifts among Lightbearers in the Last City. In my youth, the element of Void was seen as closest to the Dark. In my adulthood, Darkness -Stasis, Strand, speculative elements as yet undiscovered -has shifted from taboo to standard toolset. The final stigma among the Tower's Guardians is against rogue Lightbearers who attack Ghosts, the source of their paracausal abilities, directly.

However, the shift in perception of Darkness among Lightbearers has not been equaled by a shift in their perception of mortal researchers.

Arc is a power humanity has harnessed for centuries. Among the Guardians, it stands with Solar Light as an element seen historically as almost entirely positive -salutary, in fact. (See Karn, "Sociobiology of the Immortal," chapters five and six.)

Arc is kindly, and friendly, and unimpeachable. So must I be until more change comes and the censors move on to other fears.

There can be no complaint about my turning to work on matters that Guardians see as nothing but good for them.

Certainly not if I give them the results of that research.

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