Flare Gun

A short, stubby-barreled firearm used aboard the spore-sea ships to launch a flare for signalling — either a distress call from a stranded vessel or a flag of surrender to pirates. It works like an ordinary pistol, loaded with a separate firing charge and a wax-capped flare canister of sunlight spores around a roseite water bead. STD:Tress:Ch 36