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[Issue 2] Origination of Smoky

By cablaz,
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Remember that gun you first played with?
Ya that gun called smoky, after you got better M3 guns you didn't think much of it did you?
Today it's probably that poor gun, the first gun you see as you scroll across your garage.
Ever wondered where it came from?

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In 2005, a new company by the name of Tanki Weapon Production was formed. Tanki Weapon Production was a brand new company, made solely to produce weapons and guns for the Russian Tanks. And they have two sister companies, Tanki Tank Productions and Tanki Paint jobs. However TWP (Tanki Weapon Productions) was brand new, they hired many people but it was the first few days, nobody had any ideas of where to begin. The first few weeks were a disaster, trashed blueprints on the floor, broken prototypes, glitches and bugs, hot dogs all over the desks. It was a mess. However a clever engineer was hired, one of the last to be hired as TWP had no employees that had ideas, and by hiring a few new people they hope that some of the new hired people had some great ideas. He was a creative and imaginative one and was destined to prove his worth.. On his first day of being hired, he already had an idea in mind.
"Something that can fire shells with quick reloading..."

He began expanding this idea. By the end of his fifth day on the job, he already had a blueprint of this new gun.
Two weeks later, he had a working prototype built and ready to be presented to the administration. His prototype contained the new gun, a thin steel plating and a few small pistol bullet as demonstrating the power of this new gun. While introducing his new gun that has no name yet, he prepared the prototype, loaded the barrel and positioned the thin piece of steel. After his introduction was done, he was all ready and began. The first shot had a large BANG. The bullet was fired, it hit the steel plating, denting it but not penetrating, unwilling to give up he continually fired rounds as the plating was pierced. Seven rounds were fired withing ten seconds. The eighth round finally penetrating the steel plating.

He was told by the administration that it was a good idea, but needed improvement. But he already had ideas in mind, as soon as he returned to his office he set back to work, scribbling notes and calculating physics. Another week passed and he was done and ready to present to the administration again. This time many things were improved. After introducing the gun once more he fired. As the first one hit it produced a miniature explosion as soon as it made contact, denting the thicker metal more but also producing a surprisingly large amount of smoke for a small engineered bullet, the second round was fired and the thick steel turned into thin steel, third shot was fired the the thin steel had a crater in it, finally the fourth shot penetrated the steel plating leaving a big hole in the middle of it. By this time there was a huge amount of smoke in the air. Thus the name "Smoky" was adopted. Despise the large of amount of smoke in the air, the administration was highly impressed by this new idea. He was told to turn this into a real model life scale. He had the pleasure of doing this however the problem was making a life scale working model, this included so much more mechanisms. So he requested that some more artists, engineers and scientists were hired to assist him in building this. The administration did whatever they could to help with this new gun. Many artists, engineers and scientists were hired and they set off to work on the first TWP weapon made.

The first step was to build a large clay model, this was done easily by the artists, then they fitted the small prototype into the clay model and gave it an outer coating, testing it, the mechanism was not affected, next stop was to build a life scale model. The engineers and scientists did their best to build it. Five weeks passed and a life scale model was made. However it was not able to shoot. Another week passed as it was finally built and working. However during testing the the shell would travel three meters from the barrel and drop to the floor like a stone. Days passed as they fixed the firing mechanism for it to travel much longest distances. Another test began, this time the shell traveled 25 meters and exploded in midair. Still not satisfied they continued to tweak the mechanism until it worked. Took them two weeks to make it actually work. The testing began once more. As it fired the round traveled at amazing speed and gracefully landed half a kilometer away exploding and creating a crater in the ground.

They took this gun, mounted it on a normal tank and drove it to Tanki Test server grounds. The administration throwing many tests at it, some including steel penetration, smoke test, reloading speed, explosion radius and how many hot dogs can it fry. Smoky aced all of these tests and was able to fry 2814 hot dogs while burning 1462 of them. Next it was put against real tanks, Smoky took them all out with ease. (Good thing it was robot controlled!)

Everybody celebrated this event with Free Hot Dogs! Somehow... many employee's found steel shards in their hot dogs and this has remained a mystery to the company even to this day!
Soon Smoky was on the assembly line produced everywhere with one problem. Smoky's firing mechanism is extremely complicated and many of the producers were not able to connect the red wires to the red holes and some of the barrels of the gun snuffed out the explosion making it deal less damage to steel plating. The administration ordered an immediate stop to all production and brainstormed on this problem, they realized that with many of these different modifications of the "Smoky" gun, some are less powerful and selling every gun at full price would rip costumers off. An idea came to the creator of Smoky. Since there are already many modification of Smoky out, he wanted to continue the different modification production, the administration was confused at first, but gradually caught on as he explained that they would make different modifications for this gun and be produced in four levels. The worse modification could be produced cheaply and can be sold to the countries that don't have enough money to buy the best one. Each four levels were labeled M0, M1, M2, and M3.

Smoky was a great success, it was widely produced and highly recommended. On the Market however... since all the modification had the same coating, the sellers were not able to tell which modification was which, many costumers complained that they got the wrong modification and that they ordered the better version, however many also thanked the company for giving them the better modification then they had ordered.

Another great idea strikes once again. Each modification would have a different design on it, the higher the modification the higher the detail of the design. This was also a great success as artists were hired to comply with this job, helping the economy and the military. M0 Smoky was in fact the cheapest to produce and many were given away for free to the military.

Smoky came a long way from the beginning.
Appreciate, Harness, and Exploit its power, good luck.
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Edited by Hexed

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