Variant

Commonality

Notes

PTT

Common

Your baseline PTT round, a tungsten projectile coated in plasmatic matter.

PTT Hollow Point

Common

Pretty easy to find, absolutely love these things. When you wanna pierce armor, burn a motherfucker, and hit them with the stopping force of a crowbar to the face all in one shot.

PTT Explosive

Common

Personally a fan, though my side piece typically relies on the traditional solid ammo variant. Bullet hits, bullet explodes.

PTT Delayed Explosive

Rare

If you want to send a round further into a horde before is blows up, or wait till it penetrates further into a target, you'll go for these. But I don't really issue them out all that much.

PTT Electric

Rare

Weirdos, that's the best definition for these. If you're taking on artificial robotic enemies they're ideal… I think? Pierces through armor, then sends one HELL of a jolt through them that basically fries whatever it touches.

PTT Corrosive

Extremely Rare

Don't see these out and about all that much, given that you SHOULD be using Ashath for any kind of corrosive damage. Essentially the bullet punches through armor (whether drones, tanks, etc...) and then begins corroding it from the inside out to the point of being unusable.

PTT Submersible

Extremely Rare

What the hell even are these.
I can't think of like, four situations where you'd need specialty submersible PTT rounds but I guess here we go if that ever becomes necessary. So yeah, they're PTT rounds designed to be shot underwater with minimal loss in force or lethality. Jesus I don't think I've ever even seen the box this ammo comes in, in fact I don't even think I have it in stock on Glacier.

PTT Magma Core

Extremely Rare

Oh joy oh joy, are these things a war crime in compact form. What they do is once the PTT bullet punches through and into the target, it injects the same stuff used in magma edged weaponry but an explosive manner. So the target blows outwards, being incinerated from the inside out in this really fucked up fireball. Plasmatic matter already does that, but like with magma edged weapons it was based on the assumption it'd be used against things that can control plasmatic matter.

PSS

Common

Your garden variety, everyday PSS round. Either a singular tungsten projectile, or multiple projectiles, encased within a shell of plasmatic matter.

PSS Sabot

Common

Now most PSS ammo consists of cannon shells, pellets, slugs, or slug rods. A PSS Sabot is full of extremely sharp tungsten darts that really do a number against tank armor. Or bulletproof vests. Actually, I once saw a test where these things punched through an armored concrete wall full of rebar, so let's throw that into the pile while we're at it.

PSS Explosive

Common

Take a PSS round, and make all the pellets/projectiles explosive. Like, highly explosive, I'm talking plasmatic mini-grenades that could blow the head off a 4th Ascension Wraith. I LOVE these things, but then you slap a box of 'em into something like a Brick Slapper and it's akin to being able to direct a carpet bombing wherever you point. Fabrication is pissed at me cause I keep running through these like a drunkard through cheap beer, but let me be clear that I have zero intention of ever apologizing for it.

PSS Hammer

Rare

Here's some weird ones.
You can think of these as similar to PTT Hollow Points, but with more emphasis on the "stopping power". I have no idea what they load these things with but it ain't tungsten, cause a 12 gauge shell weighs like 3kg and you only get to use 'em into the big fucker shotguns. They're some sorta slug rod that compresses the moment the plasmatic matter burns through the initial armor, but holy shit do they bring the damage.

As a test once, we fired a single PSS Hammer round at a Rock Wall we'd rigged to be driven remotely. So we set the truck to run full tilt towards the shooter, and when they pulled the trigger the shot slammed into the front so hard it may as well have run into a solid wall, whole thing stopped dead on the spot.
Great stuff, absolutely no way anyone is hauling around an entire bag of these things though.

PSS Seekers

Extremely Rare

How to get both Finance and Fabrication pissed off at you in a single shot. These are like the PSS Sabot rounds, except the darts:

• Mark and seek targets.
• Are plasmatic mini-missiles.

Now you've gotta run the right scans and detections first using this expensive piece of gear your squadron tech has to bring along with the ammo, but these sabots can take out enemies hidden in dense jungles or places with extremely poor visibility. You can also burn through your squadron's budget for the year in two trigger pulls, so I hope you like eating rice and saltines.

PSS Gravity Shot

Extremely Rare

I've only ever seen a single box of these and they're somewhere in Acris' lab, probably gathering dust. Like the Hammers, these can only be used in certain guns, but the gist is that each shell has a tiny, highly specialized Gray Conduit in the back that infuses the projectiles with Koris and sets a Chaff circuit to break on impact. Essentially, the power of a severe gravity lash in a single shell. I think it got shelved cause Acris found it incredibly cost prohibitive versus telling a legionnaire to stop being a lazy bitch and just practice with their Nerve Harness.