[swaghauler]

I know the Pulse Rifle is supposed to be a 10mm, but I question why. It would seem to make more sense that a future battle rifle would be chambered in a very small caliber with an exploding payload. A 4.5mm or 4.2mm round would easily be able to house 100 or even 150 rounds in a standard length magazine. It would be an exceptionally flat shooter (the .17 can easily reach 4000 fps) with a minimum range of at least 100 meters. With an explosive tip, damage could be between 3 and 5 dice. Its Penetration could be 1/2, 1/2, 1, and 1. This would be a deadly round. Combined with a Metal Storm like ignition system, it could have a "programable" Rate of fire. Just set your rate of fire from 1 to say 50 or even 100 per pull (press?) of the trigger. I would go so far as to say you could even configure it to use 2 SEPARATE magazines and selectively fire from either one. You could have normal ammo in mag #1 and say Depleted Uranium rounds in mag #2. Just press a button to switch.