The Winchester & Tesla Mark II Death Ray

The Winchester & Tesla has two modes of operation: beam and grenade. It is based on Nikola Tesla’s ‘teleforce ray,’ and was miniaturized for the Agency by a descendant of the Winchester family, a clan which originated on Chesharil. It is a directed x- ray beam, essentially an x- ray laser, but because x- rays are much more difficult to deflect than standard visible- light lasers, it is far harder to counter. An agent using a Winchester & Tesla therefore must be very aware of the downrange environment, to avoid collateral damage. Like any beam weapon, however, it is affected by the inverse- square law—beam intensity will diminish inversely with the square of the distance.