# Introduction *The Stellar Armory, Space Opera Weapons and Armour for Exodus NDS. Source: https://exodusnds.com/sourcebooks/stellar-armory/introduction* A space opera weapon list usually sorts by size: pistol, rifle, cannon. The laser rifle and the slug rifle then differ by a point of damage and a name. > **Every technology has an armour that stops it and an armour it goes straight through.** In this book a weapon belongs to a technology, and the technology decides what it is good against. A character who carries a laser carbine has made a bet about what the other side is wearing. ## What You Should Expect **Six technologies.** Kinetic, Beam, Plasma, Disruption, Gravitic, and Ordnance. Each has a chapter that opens with what stops it and what it goes through. **Armour with gaps.** Armour here carries two kinds of quality. **Deflecting** names a damage type the armour turns aside. **Vulnerable** names one that finds its weak point. Chapter 11 has the rules and Chapter 13 puts every matchup on one page. **Energy weapons that overheat.** Beam and plasma weapons never run out of ammunition. They carry **Overheat** instead. **Stun and kill.** Two beam weapons switch between a stun setting and a kill setting. No weapon in the book kills outright. **Might requirements.** **Cumbersome** marks every heavy weapon and every heavy armour. ## Using This Book in Your Universe **The names are generic.** A Universe renames them, assigns them to its powers and makers, and decides which technologies are common. A setting where lasers are everywhere and plasma is a military secret uses the same stat lines as one where it is the other way round. **Prices are in the same units as the other armories.** One multiplier converts the whole book to your Universe's currency. **The damage scale matches *The Modern Armory*.** The century between that book and this one, with its smart weapons and cyberware, is in *The Chrome Market*. A slug pistol here and a 9mm there are the same weapon. ## What You Need The **Exodus NDS core rules**. This book assumes them and does not reprint them.