Ambassador Pass: Overview

A sidearm that’s issued to members of the Administrative Legion whenever they visit countries to discuss contracts with local governments. By design, an Ambassador Pass is easy to conceal while still packing enough firepower to drop a rampaging bear on the spot.

These are a case of me always wanting to try and carry a gun onto a civilian airplane just to see if I could manage it, but never having the nuts to actually try it out. _{What in God’s name is that supposed to mean? – Iza}
What if we had something that made that task all the easier, and then handed it out to all of admin boys and girls that have to pass through border security? _{I don’t think we should be letting her talk about these. – Ye-Jun}
What if, you little scamp, we gave you a way of being able to pull your sidepiece even after getting screened 5 times before the contract negotiation even started? _{It’s these types of entries that make me question your entire involvement in this project. – Hansuke}

Good news, we have your solution; the Ambassador Pass, a 10 round, .50 caliber handgun that’s invisible to metal detectors, body scanners, x-ray systems and pat downs (if you place it right).

I think the need for these originally began around the time the Administrative Legion had begun sending their people to all kinds of different counties for negotiations. While we didn’t have to fly commercial, our people were still subject to inspection upon arrival in someone else’s backyard. More often than not there would be a “no guns except for us” policy anywhere we went, so you can imagine the pucker factor of walking into a meeting as the only person without “leverage”. I actually don’t think Iza slept anytime we sent someone off to negotiate or handle business matters, cause I mean really, one wrong move and we have a legionnaire that’s being thrown into prison in a foreign country for 40 years because they looked at a politician wrong. We’d break ‘em out sure, but boy fuckin’ howdy would there be a shitshow to deal with afterwards.

It quickly became policy that nobody in GDS leaves base without a gun, and that gun isn’t to leave your side until you’re back home safe. Now you may be shocked to hear that many, many countries and governments took issue with this. For awhile we told them tough shit, you want the contract or assistance, you leave us alone when we pay a visit. That worked for some places, but from what I’m told the big spender countries still refused since they had the leverage.

That’s a cool opinion, we’re gonna go ahead and just throw that away.

We asked the weapons lab to throw together something undetectable by most screening systems, but that apparently brought back trauma from their past. It wasn’t a “No” but the looks on their faces made me think I’d just pissed on their mom’s grave or something.
Being undetectable means no metal parts.
No metal parts in a firearm is a “problem” as it was described to me through the most forced expression of patience I’ve ever seen.

While we do have the means to create printed firearms made from synthetic materials, like polymers, that’s only for use with traditional ammo. Getting that to work with PTT ammo (Charged Shell, the heat of a plasmatic round, etc…) without using any metals in the construction was again, a “problem”.

I of course brought these concerns to our little teeny tiny fledging Intelligence Legion (at the time) and asked if they had any ideas. We got a gun that needs to be completely undetectable, but also be capable of utilizing PTT ammo. That’s like asking if you could make a fully functional tank out of cardboard.
I will credit myself as being the smart bitch who knew the right place to ask, because as it turns out <REDACTED> _{The Arbiter and I will by your office shortly, don’t move. – Hansuke}

With that taken care of, and the weapons lab happy with the result, we began manufacturing them Ambassador Passes in bulk and handing them out like candy to the Administrative Legion. Juuuuuuuust in time to find our next big fucky wucky problem. _{Our what? – Hansuke
Every morning I wake up, I regret spearheading your commission more and more. – Iza}

We had these .50 caliber handguns, right?
And we gave them to Administrative Legion people, right?
And the majority of their training is in .357, right?

They couldn’t use the fucking things.

“Ma’am you unfairly hot dumb bitch just scale the caliber down.” I hear you say, but that’s wrong. I want a full stop no-nonsense handgun strapped to every single negotiator we send out and that’s final. When they land a shot I want it to be completely irrelevant as to what kind of body armor or cover they’re behind, I want that attacker dead to rights with zero doubt. That means .50 caliber PTT hollow points, which per my last range day, usually result in a person’s torso exploding like they’d swallowed an armed grenade. _{I’m sensing a theme here. – Azan
There’s no armor outside of GDS that can stop a PTT round; a .357 round would be just as good as a .50 round, your insistence at ensuring overkill is driving my weaponry engineers up a goddamn wall. – Dr. Baddarick}

I had to work it out with Hansuke, but eventually we got a training schedule up where contract negotiation specialists, or envoys of any kind, would rotate through a few weeks of training at Hammershell to get acquainted with their new travel sidearm. I say “weeks” because on top of marksmanship the maintenance, cleaning, and other… fun details… with how these undetectable guns works takes awhile to teach.
The training is to ensure they shoot people gooder, but also what to do in case of malfunctions, repairs, and how to conceal them in the first place.

To be honest I have no damn idea if an Ambassador Pass has ever been used, but contract talks always go a lot smoother when you’ve got a gun within reach at all times.

-FrW Nahli Lok-Riveria