The Gluon Suppressor Pistol

The gluon suppressor pistol was developed in the remote and somewhat exclusionary Caerarri system, where quantum chromodynamics was developed and elevated to a fine art. As a result of the system’s politics, not only are such weapons rarely encountered, but the mechanism behind their operations is not fully understood by scientists and engineers of the Coalition worlds, including Earth.

What is known is that gluon suppressor weapons, by default and by unknown mechanisms, negate the strong nuclear force in the targeted object. This negation is confined to the area of the beam strike. It is a particularly nasty form of disintegrator beam.