X305 Crystaline Ammunition

"Humanity has always been innovative, rather than imitative. Turns out, that works for stuff we steal from the xenos too. If you thought blamite was nasty already, you haven't seen anything yet."

-"DJ" Condut, MarasCorp Research and Development during the reveal speech for the X305

The X305 Crystalline Ammunition Round (usually shortened to X305 CAR but colloquially known as "human blamite", "blamite ammo", or inevitably "blamo") is a post-war human/Covenant hybrid ammunition designed and refined by Pacifica's MarasCorp Research and Development and produced by Glorious Victory Armories.

History

As the name suggests, it is an artificially reproduced variation of the naturally occurring "blamite" material found on Sangheili's moon of Suban. MarasCorp was able to acquire several functional needlers and a decent amount of ammunition following the abortive and chaotic Battle of Pacifica in 2548, and tasked their R&D division with producing a human-sourced equivalent to the crystal ammo of the weapon with the intention of giving it to the UNSC. Setbacks during the research process delayed its intended roll-out by years however, and the first viable field prototypes were not properly ready until well into 2555.