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First, let me say from the start, I am nowhere near being a firearms expert.  I don’t own guns and don’t regularly shoot them.  Please forgive me if I make a mess of terminology and feel free to let me know if my musings don’t make sense.

Second, to be clear, I’m interested in the military lore reason for the scattershot blaster and am not asking to discuss how it works in the actual game.

As I paint my freeguild grenadiers, I find myself wondering why the scattershot blaster is considered a “special weapon”.  It seems the ruin-sweeper, which most grenadiers carry, is a kind of blunderbuss while the scattershot blaster is a volley gun.  However, both these guns seem to fire several smaller projectiles at the same time.  So, why even bother developing a scattershot blaster?

The only thing I can think of that would separate the two guns is that maybe the scattershot blaster is easier to reload.  The ruin-sweeper seems to be a muzzle loaded weapon whereas for the scattershot blaster, all you have to do is remove part of the barrel and replace it with a similar piece that is already loaded.

What do you think?  Is it just an issue of reload time or is there some way that the scattershot blaster could be more destructive than the ruin-sweeper?

So I am rather new to the Alien fandom (watched the first 3 Alien movies, Prometheus, and Covenant last month). >!I just finished Alien: Isolation and I have a question about the xenomorph eggs on the station. I was under the impression that only the Queen could lay eggs. So, does this mean that there was a Queen somewhere on the station? Or can “regular” xenomorphs also lay eggs? I’m ok if the answer ends up being “that’s what the writers chose to do”, I’m just curious if there is a lore reason!<