Akarius

"Dual sidearms pulled from Altra's outer ring of blastcrete bunkers. Something crashed through those bunkers at great speed, the impact scattering stone and flesh all the same. An utterly kinetic shockwave.

Those insurgents with the misfortune of surviving the initial blast must have seen the Akarius for themselves."

- Drusus

Akarius is 's signature burst-fire dual launchers boasting homing capabilities and high status chance, with a minimum arming distance to provide safety for its user. Uniquely, this weapon reloads faster while sprinting, and reloads even faster when wielded by Gauss.

Characteristics
This weapon deals primarily  damage.

Advantages:
 * Innate damage – effective against Machinery and Fossilized.
 * High damage – effective against shields.
 * Very high status chance.
 * High accuracy.
 * Rockets homes in on enemies within 15° degrees.
 * Rockets explode in a 5 meter radius after impacting a surface or enemy.
 * Rockets have a minimum arming distance of 10 meters, mitigating self-damage.
 * Reloads ? seconds faster while sprinting (? when used by ).
 * Innate two polarities.

Disadvantages:
 * Innate damage – less effective against Ferrite Armor and Infested Sinew.
 * No or  damage – less effective against armor and health.
 * Damage cannot be increased with or  mods.
 * Low critical chance.
 * Below average critical multiplier.
 * Explosions can cause self-damage.
 * Minimum travel length of 10 meters before being explosive should prevent accidental self-damage unless rapidly moving towards the rocket's impact area before it explodes.
 * Very slow base reload speed.
 * High recoil, although mititgated by its homing capabilties.
 * Projectiles have travel time.
 * Very inefficient ammo economy; requires just 2 reloads to fully deplete all ammo reserves.


 * Demolisher Infested are unaffected by 's.
 * Demolisher Infested are not affected by '.

Trivia

 * The mechanics of both the Akarius and the Acceltra are similar to Gyrojet firearms, which were developed in the 1960s and also fired small rockets that armed themselves as they traveled out of the gun. In real life, accuracy and reliability issues meant that the Gryojets never entered mass production.