Sancti Castanas

The Sancti Castanas are an exclusive version of the Castanas available only from New Loka. It has higher base damage, status and critical chance as well as innate Purity effect.

Characteristics
This weapon deals damage.

Advantages:
 * High base damage.
 * Ammo efficient.
 * If stuck to any surface, has 100% chance to proc regardless of installed mods, have 15% base chance to additionally proc modded damage type.
 * proc provides very high stun chance against most humanoid enemies.
 * proc chains damage to enemies around it, making this weapon great against crowds.
 * Silent, even if the projectile hits the enemy.
 * User can detonate charges on command, giving the player precise timing in detonation.
 * Two and one  Polarities.
 * Has base damage type of , allowing Castanas to easily be modified to  damage for Heavy Grineer units,  damage for Ancient Infested units and damage for Corpus units.
 * Has an innate Purity effect. See the Weapon Augment Mods page for more details.
 * Equipping with the Ogris, Torid, or Penta will increase their overall ammo capacity.

Disadvantages:
 * Deals damage, which improves its utility against Robotic or Machinery-type foes but not others unless properly modded.
 * Damage cannot be increased with, or  mods.
 * Explosions can damage the user (albeit at only 30% damage).
 * Low magazine size.
 * Low ammo capacity size of 30.
 * Has slow travel time (25 m/s), making it difficult to land an accurate shot at long distances.
 * Projectiles fly in an arc, making it difficult to use at long range.
 * Can only have six charges out at once.
 * ​Extra projectiles generated by Multishot will count towards the limit of six charges.

Comparisons:
 * Sancti Castanas, compared to the Castanas:
 * Higher base damage (115.0 vs. 100.0).
 * Higher crit chance (10.0% vs. 5.0%).
 * Higher status chance (15.0% vs. 10.0%).
 * Has innate Purity effect.
 * Has an extra polarity.

Acquisition

 * The Sancti Castanas can be acquired by reaching the Rank of Flawless with New Loka, and spending to purchase. As with all Syndicate Weapons, the Sancti Castanas cannot be chosen as the free offering upon ranking up to Flawless rank.
 * Syndicate weapons can be also be acquired via Trading, but only for unranked copies without Forma and Orokin Catalyst installed.

Trivia
The first part of its name, Sancti, is likely derived from the Latin word "sanctus", meaning holy. The Sanctus is also the name of a hymn in Catholic liturgy, or 'Hymn of Victory' in the Greek rendition.

Bugs

 * When stuck to a surface, the Sancti Castanas deal the same damage as normal Castanas.
 * Like the Castanas, the Sancti Castanas, when equipped with Multishot, will spread out heavily when multishot is activated, making accuracy drop drastically.
 * This can be counteracted with Magnum Force.