"This pistol has been fashioned using the newest and highest technologies available to the Victorian world. Truly a marvel of science it fires not lead bullets but rays of energy that destroy objects at the very smallest level. I have yet to fully understand these particles that are impossible to see with even the most powerful microscope of this age. If these rays could be magnified then they could be harnessed within a bomb which could easily destroy whole cities. I must come to understand these incredibly small building blocks of all things, for it is my belief that these tiny seemingly insignificant things may hold the greatest of powers."

From the journal of Piotr Josef Ecamer