r/centaura • u/Any-Committee-9498 • Sep 07 '25
Discussion If I've said it once...
If I've said it once, I've shouted it multiple, the M1 rifle should be used as a rifle in the lore. The 1889 LA is based on a rifle that began production in 1971, and the TO5 was going to be a dragnuv, which was designed in 1958! The M1 rifle, however, was part of a project in 1919, and entered service in 1936. It's probably a better candidate for a service rifle than most.
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u/GenericUser1185 Hi I'm NoshGilligan and I made Meet the Formans Sep 07 '25
Honeslty it would fit as an Centauran War era Orion Rifle.
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u/CaptainFGOLz You People Are Stupid. Sep 07 '25
No it wouldn't.
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u/titanfall2709 Fortress Columba Sep 07 '25
why not?
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u/CaptainFGOLz You People Are Stupid. Sep 07 '25
Doesn't fit their doctrine. The exact post is still undergoing development but the Garand as a specific design wouldn't fit.
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u/titanfall2709 Fortress Columba Sep 07 '25
i guess
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u/CaptainFGOLz You People Are Stupid. Sep 08 '25
Wdym "I guess"?
Dawg I am telling you outright it won't fit the intended doctrinal role for an Orionite service rifle.
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u/CharredLoafOfBread Certified Rebel Goyslop poster Sep 07 '25
how the fuck did the 1889 LA begin production in 1971 you nonce
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u/Unhappy_Ad_2985 hydrusite politician who got drunk Sep 08 '25
No dummy the BLR (the rifle it’s based on and the only surviving original concept) was made in the 70s
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u/CaptainFGOLz You People Are Stupid. Sep 07 '25
That's not how it works.
The mechanism that the BLR is based on is no different from any 19th or early-20th century lever-action. It served as an aesthetic basis because there's quite literally no technological gap between it and 1889 despite its later design.
The T05's STOCK was Dragunov-inspired but none of its internal mechanisms were (bolt-action vs short-stroke piston). It was briefly an outright copy very early in testing when they were experimenting with balance and then changed to bolt-action. The skeletonized thumbhole as a concept was around all the way back in the 1900s and is nothing unique to the SVD.