VIPER

Lena Voss’s custom sidearm. Silent, precise, and built for her hand.

Every striker carries a sidearm. Lena Voss carries the Viper. A custom magnetic-discharge blaster built for silence and precision. Briggs forged it in the Raiders’ weapons bay, tuned to her grip and her stance, and it has been at her hip for every contract since.

How it works

No powder. No casing. No bang to give away your position. The Viper drives each slug down the barrel with a staged series of magnetic coils, building velocity in silence. The elongated suppressor bleeds off what little sound remains. At the ranges strike teams work, the target never hears the shot that finds them.

Forged by Briggs

Briggs runs the Raiders’ weapons bay, and the Viper is his signature piece. He built Lena’s full loadout around it: the grip molded to her hand, the balance tuned to her draw, even a built-in smartlink for her HUD. If she ever stopped being stubborn and started wearing one, as Briggs put it. It is not the most powerful sidearm on Mars. It is the one that fits her like it was grown there.

Technical specifications

• Action: magnetic coil discharge, staged acceleration
• Sound: suppressed, near-silent
• Origin: custom forged by Briggs, Devil’s Raiders weapons bay

The gun she surrendered

At Nova’s gate, Lena gave up three things: her sidearm, Cal’s dagger, and her staff. She walked into the Capital unarmed. The Viper was the hardest to hand over. A striker can replace a gun. She could never replace that one.