User blog comment:Fireheart318/Custom Weapons: Ballistics/@comment-25156409-20140910233404

General Info: The Impalor (AKA Impaler Cannon) is a ballistic weapon created by the beaver tribe. It is currently used by the ravens, eagles and wolves. It is an RPG-like weapon with three systems: Firing system, energy shield system and gravity array system.

Canonical Backstory: The Impalor was originally used as a tool for inserting iron rods into solid walls as a means of reinforcing them. When the weapon was used for the first time; to repair a lion fortress wall, the rod shot right through the 50 foot wall, barely missing a lion elder's head by 6 inches. It was immediately brought back to the beaver camp and it's power was lowered. When they tried to put the rod in again, it tore through the wall again, ricocheted off a pilar and blew up a lion statue. The beavers "fixed" it by turning it into a weapon. It had its power increased by three times it's original strength, had a gravity array system installed so it was easier to carry, a CHI hub for extra power to all the systems, an energy shield system, had its default charging system removed and replaced with an overcharge system (similar to tha HALO Plasma Pistol), more ammo types accepted and a lengthened "stock" for balance with "tall" (normal size) troops.

Abilities: Most ammo types of any direct aim weapon. Extreme power. Shield system can be extended to cover a medium size squad of troops with decreased toughness

Weapon Design History: Originally designed as a high power SAW weapon, when it proved too awkward for most troops to carry, it was turned into a sniper weapon, that proved too awkward too, it was finally turned into a frontal-loaded ultra-heavy anti-vehicle/ structure weapon. It is forged mainly out of Black Leochium, iron, and CHI crystals.

Significant Events: In a large battle, a missed shot traveled across Chima and knocked the entire head off the lion temple and sent a shockwave that extinguished the flames on all the torches.

Uses: Anti-vehicle weapon, anti-structure weapon, transport of supplies, CHI, weapons and occasionally troops and vehicles. Since kills aren't necessary to win a battle, it is hardly EVER used as a anti-troop weapon as some projectiles will kill due to high impact sensitivity if it strikes so much as a hair on a lion's mane. One significant event was when an enraged wolf charged a beaver trying to flip an enemy vehicle back onto its wheels, not knowing what else to do, he grabbed the near by Impalor and fired, thus impaling the wolf, killing him instantly with a violent explosion.