Frontier Weapons Trade

{|style="width:100%;" With the rise of extrasolar colonies beyond Earth and the Sol system, all manners of technology, industries, and ideas followed the human pioneers that set the groundwork for the Inner and Outer Colonies. Weapons were no exception and over the centuries, a healthy weapons trade extended from Earth to its farthest frontier outposts. After the Human-Covenant War, this trade of both legal and contraband weapons began to include alien technologies and the hybridization of cultures and pragmatic philosophies. The following is an assessment page regarding the transaction of small arms into 2558, after which data is inconclusive due to the Created upheaval.

Scrappy Lover
While starship graveyards from interstellar conflicts have been an occurrence since at least the Insurrection, the fetcher industry of reclaiming old starships exploded after the Human-Covenant War. All sorts of industries benefitted from the retrieval of dead and damaged military starships, including the illicit weapons trade. Due to the nature of weapons manufacturers protecting their weapon blueprints and software through various product protection methods, homegrown weapons workshops across the frontier specialize in the development of untraceable weaponry constructed from resilient titanium. Small pistols modeled after the Misriah M6 series handgun, chambered in the M225 magnum cartridge, are the most prolific and often called Scrappy Lovers.