Weapon

Common

The Volkner clan needed a steady supply of equipment and due to supply line issues with mining equipment deliveries from other clans, invented the EF-34 Powered Pickaxe some 20 years prior to the Cataclysm. The EF stands for Elektrisch Flügeleisen, which literally translates to Electric Wing Iron in Kreusch-Czek on account of its two heads resembling a wing of sorts. A Volkner Forgeworks design, the EF-34 is built with adversarial encounters in mind, accounting for hostile wildlife and other denizens of The Deep. The electrified pick head affords a brief opportunity to escape in scenarios where gnashing teeth are too close for comfort. The diamond-tipped tungsten blade's tensile strength is exceptional for cracking the harder geodes and other rocks, and the additional shock creates fractures in porous minerals, but it is inadvisable to use the electric mode when attempting to manually extract Aetherion crystals. Its back head folds down for portability and converts the pick into a single-head. The back head functions primarily as a digging tool and can pick apart broken rocks or be used to pry open doors as well. When folded down, it also exposes a handy electric lighter which can be used to heat soup cans, ignite cigars, or even light kindling on fire. This feature is never enabled while the digging head is up and there's a safety switch at the base of the pick's haft.

Weight: 9lbs