Plasma Axe melee weapon

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About the PR

This PR adds a new weapon i made called the Plas Axe MK-2 which is basically in simplest terms a cooler crew sided E Sword

Why / Balance

I made this weapon just to add a late game weapon in theme for NT that functions as a alternative to the Advanced Truncheon, it deals heat, caustic (yes i know how much you all love caustic CR), slash, and sticking with the axe theme a shit ton of structural. also it functions off of the welder fuel system so it wont always be on and kind of spendy to run, unlike the advanced truncheon this would be one handed and in tier 3 research, meaning its technically probably the last melee sec would get, it has a small amount of reflect but the reflect doesn't reflect back at the shooter instead randomly off to the side, anyways that's about it, it does technically do less damage than the advanced truncheon in DPS but it has a few nice things that make it equal and or stronger.

Technical details

Added Plasma_weapons.yml to store weapon
added in naming thingy to technologies.ftl
added it into recipes in security.yml
added advanced plasma manipulation into aresenal.yml as the new research in tier 3 for sec
sprites stored in plas_axe.rsi

Media

2026-08-29.14-37-16.-.Trim.1.mp4

Requirements

• I have tested all added content and changes.
• I have added media to this PR or it does not require an in-game showcase.

Licensing

• I confirm that I am the creator of the code in this PR, and allow licensing it under the following license(s), or that the original author(s) has given me permission to do so:
  • AGPL (https://github.com/DeltaV-Station/Delta-v/blob/master/LICENSE-AGPLv3.txt)
  • MIT (https://github.com/DeltaV-Station/Delta-v/blob/master/LICENSE-MIT.txt)

Changelog

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• add: Plas Axe MK-2 a new researchable weapon that consumes plasma fuel and turns it into PURE POWEEERRRRRRR!!!!!!

[github-actions]

RSI Diff Bot; head commit facb322 merging into 00d7721
This PR makes changes to 1 or more RSIs. Here is a summary of all changes:

Resources/Textures/_DV/Objects/Weapons/Melee/plas_axe.rsi

State	Old	New	Status
icon			Added
inhand-left-plasma			Added
inhand-left			Added
inhand-right-plasma			Added
inhand-right			Added
plasma_axe			Added
plasma_blade			Added

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Triaged by kotobdev:
This PR requires a content review discussion, which will be held in public.

oh boy this'll be a fun one. i'd say CR would bikeshed this but it'll really be more like a bike warehouse at this point

You can view the discussion here and write comments starting with !discord to send messages into the thread.
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!discord 12 slash 5 caustic 8 heat

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!discord it’s not a welder I took the tool comp out but draining fuel to require the change from off to on is part of the welder comp that’s what I meant

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!discord I think increasing fuel use is a good idea, but I think keeping the max units at 10 even if it still drains down to 30 seconds with 10 instead of 5 units basically double the drain speed and the capacity so they have to spend more

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!discord advanced truncheon is in advanced riot control which is a tier 2

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!discord I do note the first line of the NT wiki talks about how they bla bla bla plasma, it wouldn’t make sense if they had a light saber but this is thematically just a amped up NT flippo lighter which is actually where I got the idea

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!discord the building costs def need to be lowered, idk what I was on when I put fuckin 70 steel 30 gold in

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!discord Would you be fine with 15 steel 10 gold 5 silver 20 plasma and 3 plastic? Or is that to low… I really don’t know what I was thinking with 70 fuckin steel…

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!discord I could probably give it a noise more akin to a jet engine, also I feel like the e sword should be a hardline weapon or something plasma just dont make no sense, I mean it can literally change colors and become rgb…

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!discord this raises a lore question for me, whatever NT uses is solid plasma but obviously its not true plasma as plasma is just a state of matter, whatever the energy blade is using is probably like literal plasma as in the state of matter, constantly burning and filled as energy, but what ever the shit solid plasma is (which is what the axe uses and what i assume the wiki means by NT pioneered the plasma industry) is very odd and distinct, but that's a question for another time alas

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!discord its probably just a stupid name for a rare space element, rich with energy that can be in all states of matter, and is decently strong in solid form perhaps?

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i mean this is kinda dumb, if you really think about it plasma can be anything from the games context, but in delta v that just makes the most logic for what it is, also NT differs from server to server in their lore but it seems that in most cases its a plasma company, which i would regard as true because it makes a bit of sense in the grand scheme of it all.

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!discord if you want it to be strong i might need to go back to the stat drawing board

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!discord could just buff the firerate, also while i dont like the idea of lasers particularly i could still do it, just at a hit to me i guess, but there is one thing and thats that im not sure i could make a constant drain battery melee weapon, like how i did with the plasma fuel

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!discord if that is your final verdict then please tell me what you think a laser axe or whatever would look like, cause the energy sword is already just a fuckin light saber and thats about as lasery as i can think. IF