Paperslip

Spatial degradation weapons, better known as paperslips, are a type of personal weaponry utilising spatial dimensions.

Description
While a paperslip's appearance will usually vary between its manufacturers, such a device possesses a storage unit of Protean Husks and some sort of of launcher. The weapon is named after the projectile it launches; an FTL wave of space-time that has been compressed from however many spatial dimensions to only two, resulting in an appearance similar to that of an extremely thin, glowing sheet (a consequence of matter in the path of the projectile being crushed into a two dimensional space). Most paperslips are small and compact, being a few centimetres in length or width. The projectile passes through most types of material and energy shielding due to its nature of not being a tangible construct. Anything within the vicinity of the travelling projectile becomes crushed into two dimensions, annihilating any matter within that space.

History
Paperslips are an ancient weapon, having been used in the millennia before the First End, using Zero-Space Nodes to do the work for compressing space rather than using Protean Husks. The production of paperslips using Protean Husks started roughly with the construction of the first Weave Node.

Mechanism
The launcher of the paperslip is usually an extremely specialised Reality Engine. The launcher of the paperslip first extracts a portion of the Protean Husks from its chamber, entangling the amount into a small region of space-time. The launcher then violently ejects the region of space at FTL, where at a calibrated distance the projectile begins its spatial compression. The destructive capability and range of the weapon is variable, depending on the amount of Protean Husks used. Most versions within a few centimetres in size have a calibrated range of several dozen metres with a path width of several centimetres for pest clearing, all the way to a range of dozens of light years and several AU of path width for fighting most entities one can expect to find in the ruins of the Weave.