>>21513457Or really high-tech rifle. Think about it. A rifle is essentially a hollow staff with trigger. The grip is a new thing, prior to late XIXc it was part of the stock, not separate thing (it still is in hunting rifles or shotguns). Once you have reliable wireless that can move the targetting system from scope to the helmet, and possibly get rid of classic trigger, a hollow staff is again the shape you get. Given how it's glowing along the entire lenght, it might be a gauss chamber, or some sort of particle accelerator. It might be ZOMG ELITE in this context, but I grow tired of 80's tech with more lights on being "scifi" due to some misguided sense of realism.