The two most devastating features of this weapon are the integrated widevision rangefinder and the galvan circuitry overcharger. The rangefinder dramatically increased accuracy, while the overcharger put a bit of added punch to each shot. The Alliance received a few hundred of these rifles from a smuggler, and then, at the prompting of its soldiers, made every effort to acquire more of them in raids and underhanded deals. Because of its atypical machinations, the Empire never standardized the weapon for mass production, nor awarded a secure contract to BlasTech for it. As such, in the early days of the Republic, the armories of the New Republic made every effort to buy up entire stocks of this rifle to equip the reborn Army of the Republic.