Alien Disintegrator (Mothership Zeta)

The  is an energy rifle of alien origin which is added to Fallout 3 with the Mothership Zeta add-on.

Characteristics
The Alien Disintegrator is the primary rifle used by Alien crew and soldiers during Mothership Zeta. It has a massive 100-module battery size, and deals far more damage than any human rifle that isn't a Gauss weapon. However, it lacks the high accuracy of the Alien Blaster or Alien Atomizer.

A Disintegrator can fire 518 bolts, 5.18 smacks of the magical reload button, before breaking.

Variants

 * Destabilizer - Essentially an Alien R91 assault rifle, the Destabilizer is a fully automatic version of the Disintegrator. However, it deals very little damage per shot, at least compared to the Disintegrator.

Appearances
The appears in the Mothership Zeta add-on for Fallout 3.

Behind the scenes

 * The weapon's appearance is that of a space age blunderbuss, which was not an uncommon appearance in 50's pulp fiction/sci-fi magazines.

Bugs

 * Alien power modules are never inserted into the Disintegrator; the reload animation consists of pressing a button. There is no ejection of spent modules, no cycling of internal modules, nothing that indicates the weapon is being reloaded.
 * The Disintegrator displays the icon of a Small Gun in the hotkey menu.