Ulterior Observation

Ulterior Observation
Attributes
Season	27
Type	Machine Gun
Slot	Power
Ammo	Heavy
Rarity	Legendary
Damage Type	Stasis
Foundry	?????
Archetype	?????
Description	A triptych with three different images. Three different mediums. Three different artists.
Vendor	Focused Decoding, Altar of Relativity
Statistics
Impact	33
Range	47
Stability	46
Handling	45
Reload Speed	39
Rounds Per Minute	600
Magazine	58
Zoom	16
Aim Assistance	54
Airborne Effectiveness	20
Recoil	72

Acquisition
	Exploring Kepler

Ulterior Observation PvP Stats

Ulterior Observation is a Legendary Machine Gun.

Perks - Curated Roll

Intrinsic

• Aggressive Frame - High damage, high recoil.

Sight / Barrel

• 35px Exhaustive Research - Aiming down sights at a target for a short time loads a homing micro-rocket.
• 35px Exhaustive Research - Aiming down sights at a target for a short time loads a homing micro-rocket.

Perks - Random Rolls

Intrinsic

• Aggressive Frame - High damage, high recoil.

Possible Sight / Barrel

• Arrowhead Brake - Lightly vented barrel.
  • Greatly controls Recoil.
  • Increases Handling Speed.
• Chambered Compensator - Stable barrel attachment.
  • Increases Stability.
  • Improves Recoil Direction.
  • Slightly decreases Handling Speed.
• Corkscrew Rifling - Balanced barrel.
  • Slightly increases Range and Stability.
  • Slightly increases Handling Speed.
• Extended Barrel - Weighty barrel extension.
  • Increases range
  • Decreases handling speed
  • Moderately controls recoil
• Fluted Barrel - Ultra-light barrel.
  • Greatly increases Handling Speed.
  • Slightly increases Stability.
• Full Bore - Barrel optimized for distance.
  • Greatly increases Range.
  • Decreases Stability.
  • Slightly decreases Handling Speed.
• Hammer-Forged Rifling - Durable ranged barrel.
  • Increases Range.
• Polygonal Rifling - Barrel optimized for recoil reduction.
  • Increases Stability.
• Smallbore - Dual strength barrel.
  • Increases Range.
  • Increases Stability.

Possible Magazine / Battery

• Extended Mag - This weapon has a greatly increased magazine size, but reloads much slower.
  • Greatly increases magazine size.
  • Greatly decreases Reload Speed.
• Alloy Magazine - Faster Reload when the magazine is empty.
• Appended Mag - This weapon's magazine is built for higher capacity.
  • Increases magazine size.
• Armor-Piercing Rounds - Rounds cause extra damage to shields and overpenetrate targets.
  • Slightly increases Range.
• High-Caliber Rounds - Shots from this weapon knock the target back farther.
  • Slightly increases Range.
• Ricochet Rounds - Rounds ricochet off hard surfaces.
  • Increases Stability.
  • Slightly increases Range.
• Flared Magwell - Optimized for fast reloading.
  • Slightly increases Stability.
  • Greatly increases Reload Speed.
• Light Mag — Improved reload and range.
  • Increases reload speed
  • Slightly increases range

Possible Trait 1

• Moving Target - Increased movement speed and target acquisition when moving while aiming down sights.
• Subsistence - Defeating targets partially reloads the magazine from reserves with an increased amount of ammo.
• Headstone - Precision final blows spawn a Stasis crystal at a target's location. Improves stability.
• Envious Arsenal - Dealing damage with both other weapons before readying this weapon refills it from reserves.
• 35px Built to Blast - Gain aim assist, stability, and flinch resistance while you have Woven Mail, Frost Armor, or Void Overshield.
• Feeding Frenzy - Each rapid kill with this weapon progressively increases reload speed for a short time.
• Demolitionist - Kills with this weapon generate grenade energy. Activating your grenade ability reloads this weapon from reserves.

Possible Trait 2

• Adagio - After defeating a target, this weapon fires, charges, or draws more slowly and deals increased damage for a brief time.
• Rimestealer - Destroying a Stasis crystal or defeating a frozen target with this weapon grants you Frost Armor.
• Dynamic Sway Reduction - When holding down the trigger, this weapon's sway-reduction system boosts accuracy and Stability over time.
• 35px Binary Orbit - Elemental final blows opposite this weapon increase damage for a short duration. Darkness final blows boost Arc, Solar, and Void weapons. Light final blows boost Stasis, Strand, and Kinetic weapons.
• Killing Tally - Kills increase this weapon's damage until it is stowed or reloaded.
• Dragonfly - Precision kills create an elemental damage explosion.
• Closing Time - Improves range, accuracy, and handling as the magazine gets lower.

Possible Origin Trait

• 35px Exhaustive Research - Aiming down sights at a target for a short time loads a homing micro-rocket.

How to Obtain

Detailed explanation on how to acquire Ulterior Observation

Lore

A triptych with three different images. Three different mediums. Three different artists.

// First image: Black and white charcoal on archival paper. A cosmic dust storm with streaks of bright white bursting from a single point towards the center. Imprecise perspective rendering makes the viewer feel lost and uneasy. //

The art class is small. The forward momentum of the AION Initiative always takes precedence over softer pursuits. Professor Inoue knows they have very little time to nurture their chosen mediums outside of the two stolen hours they have together every other week, but he loves them just the same.

// Second image: Impressionist oil-pastels on dented sheet metal. A collection of triangular, oblique pyramids float in uniform amongst towering cumulonimbus clouds. The dark of the pyramids, rendered in rich blues and purples, juxtaposes the soft pink and orange hues of the clouds. //

Although the group consists of no more than fledgling doodlers, research and art share a core skill: observation. They're in session, attempting a charcoal still life of laboratory glassware and a fungal sample, when it happens. An alarm blares, and powder-blackened fingers grasp for one another, seeking comfort as news from home tumbles through the class. They hurry to the Caldera to observe.

// Third image: Acrylic paint on wood. Bold blocks of color. Two spheres: the larger one blue with green swirls, the smaller one eggshell white. A deep red fills the background. The lines are mostly crisp. Some red has bled into the white sphere, where the artist left a light smudge trying to correct the error. //

Armageddon is peaceful this far away. They expect a shockwave to roll over the settlement. Surely an apocalypse warrants at least a small earthquake? A few shattered Straus flasks? Nothing comes. The members of the AION Initiative observe a tragedy from approximately 1.7 light years away, through telescopes built to show a vastness beyond their solar system. Tens of thousands of years of human history decimated, and from their Kepler, it's nothing but a few flashes. Invisible to the naked eye. Occurring approximately 1.7 years prior.

The AION Initiative, born in the pursuit of observation, ends in observation.

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