Cestra

The Cestra is a Sidearm shown in Update 11 Highlight Video. It is a rapid-fire Corpus sidearm with a short spinup time.

This weapon can be sold for ; it is also a requisite ingredient for Dual Cestra (x2).

Characteristics
This weapon deals primarily damage.

Advantages:
 * High magazine size.
 * Average reload speed (2 seconds).
 * Deals mostly Puncture damage, good for armored enemies like the Grineer.

Disadvantages:
 * Deals no Slash damage, rendering it ineffective against Infested.
 * Short wind-up time in which the Cestra fires slowly, similar to the Supra.
 * Projectiles have travel time, between the Dera and the Supra.
 * High recoil when fully spooled.
 * Poor Ammo economy. It is advised to use Pistol Ammo Mutation.
 * Low status chance.
 * Low critical chance.

Tips

 * If you are planning to make extensive use of this weapon, Heated Charge and/or Expel Infested will be necessary to fight the Infested; as this weapon has no Slash Damage, Razor Shot will have no effect.
 * Pistol Ammo Mutation, Trick Mag, Pistol Scavenger or Team Ammo Restores will be necessary to counteract the high rate of ammo consumption.
 * While having good base accuracy, the Cestra has significant recoil that scatters its shots, making it ineffective for long range shooting. Steady Hands is a must if one plans to utilize the Cestra's high base accuracy effectively.

Trivia

 * The Cestra's barrel rotates slowly clockwise when not in use, and spins faster as it is fired.
 * The reload animation consists of the player pulling out the barrel, flipping it and reinserting it back into the Cestra, oddly making the revolving barrel the magazine itself.
 * This may suggest that the cylinder may be composed of two separate batteries; one used to fire plasma shots while the other is collecting energy from ammunition reserve of the user.
 * Also, when holding a Datamass in a mission, the Datamass will spin whilst reloading.
 * Color of projectiles is colored by the weapon's energy color.
 * The Cestra's may be a numeral-derived name, just like other Corpus-designed weapons released around the time: the Tetra, which has a barrel with four blocks attached and a "quad-chambered clip"; and the Penta, which has a five-grenade magazine. Cestra may be a corruption of Sexa/Sext, from sixth, and has a rotating section with six blocks.
 * While Tetra- and Penta- are Greek numeral prefixes, Sexa-/Sext- is a Latin numeral prefix. The appropriate Greek prefix would be Hexa-.
 * The name may also have been derived from Cestrum, a genus of flowers that commonly grows on Southern America, which makes sense as the frontal lookings of the Cestra vaguely bear resemblance to a flower.