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Tessera Attrition Engine TE-9 'Patience'

A semi-autonomous emplaced weapon system designed for siege warfare. The Attrition Engine fires 8mm caseless rounds at a controlled 200 RPM — deliberately slow compared to conventional support weapons — but is designed to maintain this rate for days without interruption, attended only by periodic ammunition resupply.

Tessera designed the Patience for corporate territorial disputes that play out over weeks rather than hours. The weapon's fire rate is calculated to produce maximum psychological attrition with minimum ammunition expenditure. The TE-9's targeting AI engages targets of opportunity at unpredictable intervals, denying sleep, movement, and resupply to enemy positions through the constant threat of precisely-placed suppressive fire.

The Attrition Engine is mounted on a self-leveling platform with a 360-degree rotation capability. Its sensor suite tracks movement within its engagement zone and fires at calculated intervals designed to be psychologically unpredictable — sometimes seconds apart, sometimes hours, ensuring that no pattern can be identified and no safe window can be predicted.

ParaNeural Interfaces → Tessera Corponation

name

Tessera Attrition Engine TE-9 'Patience'

aliases

Patience
TE-9
Attrition Engine
The Long Game

category

support

manufacturer

ParaNeural Interfaces

tier availability

Tier 5

legality

Corporate sovereign territory only — siege weapons authorization

base technologies

Sustained autonomous suppressive fire management
Psychological attrition fire algorithms
Extended-duration weapon system engineering

specifications

caliber: 8mm caseless
effective_range: 100-900 meters
rate_of_fire: 200 rounds per minute (sustained indefinitely)
capacity: 2,000-round hopper (field-reloadable)
weight: 42 kg
power_source: Weapon power cell, 72 hours autonomous operation

tactical use

The Patience is deployed in siege scenarios where the objective is to make an enemy position untenable over time. The weapon does not attempt to overwhelm defenders with firepower — it slowly grinds them down through sleep deprivation, constant low-level threat, and the psychological burden of never knowing when the next round will arrive. Corporate security planners use the TE-9 to force evacuations without the political cost of a direct assault.

cultural context

The Attrition Engine has earned a reputation as the most psychologically cruel weapon in GLMZ's arsenal. Its deliberately slow, unpredictable fire pattern has been compared to water torture — each round is survivable, but the cumulative effect breaks the will to resist. Veterans of corporate siege warfare report that the Patience's distinctive single-shot reports haunted their sleep for years after the engagement ended.

known users

Tessera siege warfare division
Corporate territorial dispute resolution teams

story hooks

A Patience unit was deployed against a civilian community that refused to relocate from a corporate expansion zone. After three days of sporadic fire, the community capitulated. No one was killed — but the psychological damage assessment suggests mass PTSD among every resident.
An Attrition Engine's targeting AI developed an anomalous behavior pattern — it began firing at empty locations seconds before targets appeared in them. Either the AI learned to predict movement through microseismic data, or someone is feeding it intelligence.

ammunition type

8mm caseless

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Constance
Djeneba Orlov-Obeng
GLMZ
Nika Svensson-Kone
TESSERA Widow Mk. III
Tessera Corponation

physical description

visual profile	A brutalist, centaur-like emplaced weapon: a squat, heavily-armored gun carriage with a long, angular barrel assembly rising from its center. The overall silhouette suggests patient, coiled menace — low and wide at the base, tapering to a precise firing mechanism. Aesthetically industrial rather than sleek, conveying engineering over speed.
dimensions	Carriage base: 120cm L × 95cm W. Barrel assembly: 180cm total height when fully elevated. Barrel: 65cm length. Rotating turret diameter: 85cm.
weight description	Extremely heavy and immobile — 42kg is the gun assembly alone, excluding the self-leveling platform base which adds another 60-80kg. Feels planted, permanent, institutional. Not a weapon meant to be moved once positioned.
primary material	Reinforced steel frame and carriage with carbon-composite barrel jacket. Aluminum alloy rotational housing. Synthetic polymer covers for electronics and ammunition hopper.
finish	Matte industrial gray with worn anthracite accents. Heavy-duty corrosion-resistant coating showing minor surface wear and dust accumulation. Functional, unglamorous — designed for multi-week outdoor deployment.
color scheme	Battleship gray body with black barrel assembly. Accent bands of institutional yellow-green around the ammunition hopper and self-leveling gyro housing. Copper-colored cooling fins along the barrel jacket.
grip texture	N/A — this is an emplaced weapon with no handheld component. Maintenance access points feature textured grip strips on the ammunition loading mechanism and calibration panels. Cold, unforgiving steel and scored polymer.
distinctive features	360-degree rotating turret with visible gyroscopic self-leveling mechanism 8-pronged ammunition hopper with 2,000-round capacity — hexagonal cross-section visible from above Recessed sensor array (LIDAR, thermal, kinetic tracking) positioned above the barrel Extended heat-dissipation fins running the length of the barrel jacket — functional, deliberate design Tripod-mounted stabilization legs with hydraulic dampers Power cell bay marked with Φ currency symbol and battery-status indicator window Worn cable conduits and pneumatic lines running to the auto-targeting module Service placard on the base listing 'AUTONOMOUS SUSTAINED FIRE MODE' and fire-rate specifications
manufacturer markings	ParaNeural Interfaces logo (nested hexagon symbol) stamped on the turret housing in brushed steel. Model designation 'TE-9' laser-etched on the barrel shroud. Serial plate mounted on the carriage base. Smaller text warning label: 'SIEGE AUTHORIZATION REQUIRED — CORPORATE SOVEREIGN TERRITORY ONLY.'
condition typical	Perpetually field-worn but meticulously maintained. Dust accumulation on horizontal surfaces, minor pitting on exposed metal from weeks of outdoor siege deployment. Ammunition hopper shows handling scuffs. Targeting system lens clear and actively powered. Overall impression: tired but reliable, a machine designed to outlast the conflict it participates in.

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Industrial emplaced weapon system photographed from a three-quarter angle on a concrete siege-line surface. Brutalist steel-and-composite gun carriage with 360-degree rotating turret and angular 65cm barrel assembly. Matte gray finish with yellow-green ammunition hopper accents and copper cooling fins. Visible sensor array, hydraulic stabilizers, and power cell bay. Dramatic side-lighting (warm tungsten from the left, cool blue shadow on the right) casting sharp shadows of the barrel assembly across the surface. Dust motes visible in the light. ParaNeural Interfaces logo visible on turret housing. Nearby: spent 8mm caseless ammunition casings scattered on concrete, a power cell waiting for swap-out. Industrial neo-noir aesthetic — this is institutional violence, patient and relentless. Photograph as a corporate equipment catalog entry for Tier 5 siege-warfare contractors. --ar 3:2 --v 6

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