This isnt a super big deal, but the whole "i just bought it from the vendor" RP is honestly kind of poor and if taken to extremes can lead to Freelancer ID'd Bret / Rhein / Liberty gunboats simply flying around.
Hello, thank you for your feedback and criticism. We didn't had some for a while now.
I must say I'm a bit sad because of your concern, as our group and mostly, I, enforce things very close to "realm" even if it's just a game. But yeah. However, you might not be the only one having this concern, so this is a good thing to explain it;
It all begun with us, obtaining the Nomad Prototype (2.22 refire rate) from Das Wilde, that is documented here. After that, the RP was sitting since we had some other projects that we've worked on. Basically, we were waiting for the new person to join Terminus cell, so we could dedicate someone fresh and new to it, who'd like to have opportunity to participate like other members of said cell.
Then, @Mushy joined us and we decided that he could be in Terminus. He expressed how he'd like to work on some gun technology and we dedicated him to his Prototype RP.
The point of that RP thread and a first stage of it is to fully develop technology that is, being used by House Intelligence Agencies, Order, Core and the Wild. Those would be Adapted Nomad Blasters and Cannons, very bad guns but we saw good opportunity to further develop our own technology based on those.
Thus, I told Mush to do it step by step and add a dose of realm into it. So, he went to Relay Zeta and requested specific gun types to be delivered to him so he could experiment with them, and adapt them to the technology that the Prototype itself offers. That is why those guns were needed, to come up to Adapted Nomad Blasters and Cannons. In the Mush's request, it's stated what would those serve for.
Now, if you even have concerns about Commune, all of sudden cracking the code of Hybrid technology, that won't as well happen. It is planned that in the next stage of Mushy's RP we come in front of some specific difficulties that will result in Das Wilde scientist RP-ed by someone from Das Wilde to come along with us and aid us on that matter.