Leighly-Braun Manifold

Leighly-Braun Manifolds are devices proprietary to associates of the Flagg Institution, and anyone rich enough to license one. They come in all shapes, sizes, and forms, but all function similiarly: they are designed to flash fabricate simple devices and objects when powdered Dust is run through them.

Usage
Conventional Ammunition, Blades, Grenades, etc. are bulky and take up excessive space. For some Huntsmen and Mercenaries, the added bulk can be an extreme liability. The LB Manifold addresses this by manufacturing the needed devices only when it is needed. For the case of some objects such as blades, the Manifold can reverse the process to conserve dust.

Each manifold must be custom built to manufacture what it is intended to build. A manifold designed to create bullets cannot be tweaked or modified to create a blade, larger/smaller bullet, etc. without essentially rebuilding it. As such, users may carry multiple manifolds, one for grenades, one for their sword, etc. to compensate.

Objects fabricated by LB Manifolds can be best described as artificially created Dust Crystals. This is the closest case for bullets and blades. Grenades however, are much more unstable to the point where a notable impact (one that can shatter glass) will shatter the Grenade's shell and detonate the powdered dust inside.

The closest thing to variance within a Manifold is the Dust input. Example, an LB Manifold designed to manufacture Grenades will create Incendiaries if Red dust is fed into it, Cryogenic Grenades if Blue and Green dust are fed, Shock if Yellow and Green are fed, and so on and so forth.

Drawbacks
The LB Manifold is not without flaws. Due to its nature, it must be cleaned regularly to maintain performance. Also, as everything created by the Manifold is "elemental" by nature, there do arise situations where a conventional weapon might be more effective. EG. In a room that may contain explosive chemicals, an operator may want to use a regular gun as opposed to an LB Manifold equipped weapon that can only fire Incendiary rounds at the moment.

LB Manifolds also have difficulty manufacturing complicated objects. While it is possible, since some operators have Manifold designed to create articulated decoy dummies of themselves, the process is time consuming at 10-15 seconds for a moving dummy as opposed to milliseconds for an unguided rocket. Anything that would likely require transistors or beyond cannot be fabricated.

Author's notes
If you want to use this stuff for your OC, drop me, fedorastorm, a message first. This way we don't run into oddities like a street rat suddenly pulling a flash-fab switchblade on some schmuck.