#cerberus+1

Triple threat!😍

“Don’t tell me you’re trying to standardize this thing...”

“Just hear me out. It works. Really.”

“...”

“What? Don’t give me that look.”

“I’m not giving a look. I’m listening.”

“OK, OK. So here, I took the design concept and started from scratch—”

“Design concept? You mean ‘stick four guns together’? That brilliant idea?”

“...Well... yes. So I retooled all the components to fit them together cohesively, unlike the slapdash original. Seated them together cleanly, reinforced everything, stabilized the lot as an integrated system rather than just a haphazard collection, an—”

“Did you do anything different, actually, or is it still just four guns stuck together, only neatly this time?”

“...I gave the microstellar dynamo a proper enclosure, and a more solid mounting.”

“OK, well, you enjoy pretending this isn’t just as ludicrous a project as it started out being, and, uh, maybe try not to blow anyone else up in the process, yeah?”

“But... but I synced the firing pattern! I stabilized the recoil absorption! I, uh... I gave it a new stock!”

Cerberus+1

"Because three heads are good, but four are better." —Jeza "Jeopardy" Verlayn

Weapon Type: Auto Rifle

Ammo Type: Kinetic

Slot: Primary

Foundry: Jeza Verlayn

Rarity: Exotic

Exotic Perk: Fires from all four barrels at once. ADSing while firing reduces bullet spread.

Obtainment: Drop, Xūr

Other Notes: Keeping with the lore of the gun, you can see parts from other guns can be seen, including the Khvostov 7G-02.

Lore:

I had plans for the Photonic Heart.

First I was gonna take it straight to Marcus, gloat for a bit. "Look what I found, told you the rumors were true, how fast d'you think my Sparrow'd go if I swapped my engine out for it…"

Then see what I could get for it in the Bazaar. Not 'cause I wanted to sell it. Just 'cause it'd feel good to know.

Then I was gonna take a little vacation with it to Venus, and THEN I'd figure out what to do with it. At my leisure.

But no. Had to get sucker punched by an asteroid.

Barely made the landing on this dusty spit of Shore. Lost all my weapons in the crash. Heart only survived 'cause I put it in my helmet and buckled it in my seat.

So my Ghost revives me, and there I am in a crater surrounded by fragmentalized auto rifles and a Golden Age microstellar dynamo. Talk about hell.

I started with three barrels. Figured I might as well lean into the hell vibe. Shoulda known that wouldn't have been enough to really min/max with a power source this feisty. Especially once I noticed the coronal containment shield was cracked.

Cerberus+1 is an exotic auto rifle named after the 3 headed dog of the same name with the +1 being because it's got 4 barrels that fire at the same time

Despite being an auto rifle, the weapon has perks similar to a shotgun like a version of shot package that reduces spread when aiming down the sight and chokes instead of barrel perks

As can be seen from the stats it's got a bit of kick to it and is not good at all past medium range but in close range it shines with high damage and making enemies stagger in both PvE and PvP

“Armory? Who needs some fancy armory? Listen, to hell with all that Golden Age bollocks. Lemme tell you how it is: it’s not about guns getting fancier, right? It’s about ‘em getting more powerful—powerful, an’ the fastest way to make a more powerful gun is easy. You don’t need to get fancier to get there, nah. Listen, gimme that, uh, whatsit over there—yeah, and some of that metal strapping. See, here I have, eh, one, two, three... four guns, right? Four guns is a good bit more power than just the one, no bones about that, but, oy!—unlike certain four-armed troublemakers who need not be named, I haven’t the advantage of bein’ able to wield four guns at once, have I?

“Or... have I? Watch this, just watch—and uh, hand us that tape. Show you just how much we need anything from some long-lost armory.”