SPAS-12 $2800

Type: tree | Size: medium | Extends: Boomstick
MODIFICATIONS
Break Barrel Trunk
Hinge Array
COMPONENTS (Boomstick ROOTS)
Break Barrel Trunk
PROBLEM

The Terminator needed something that looked like it meant it.

SOLUTION

The SPAS-12 is the MTREES Italian semi-automatic and pump-action dual-mode combat shotgun variant of the Boomstick platform, selected for the Terminator loadout on the basis that it is the most visually convincing shotgun ever manufactured and was designed in a decade that treated visual conviction as a primary engineering specification. The SPAS-12 can be operated in semi-automatic mode for rapid target engagement or pump-action mode for situations where ammunition is low and commitment is high, a toggle that the operator selects via a lever that most operators do not know exists until the weapon declines to cycle, which is the worst time to learn about a lever. The folding stock folds, which makes it smaller, which does not make it less alarming, which is the point of folding the stock. Deployed against a T-800 in a Los Angeles parking structure in 1984, the results were evaluated as insufficient but the footage was compelling. The MTREES version includes the folding stock, the dual-mode toggle, and a small printed card explaining the lever. The card should be read before the lever is needed.

components

The Break Barrel Trunk is the service-access configuration of the Trunks pole platform, redesigning the conventional utility pole architecture by relocating all junction hardware, circuit breaker panels, fiber splice enclosures, and Uni-Adapter service ports from the top of the pole to a break-open barrel housing at standing height on the lower shaft body, accessible to a technician without any climbing equipment, elevated platform, or personal risk above ground level. The barrel housing opens via a quarter-turn key lock on two hinged panels that swing outward to expose the full internal wiring harness and service infrastructure in a single motion, with all connections labeled, color-coded, and terminated on standard DIN rail assemblies for rapid service. The upper shaft above the barrel housing contains only passive structural elements and fixture mounts with no serviceable connections, meaning the fixture at the top is replaced as a complete unit from the ground using a pole-mounted release mechanism rather than a technician ascending to disconnect it. The Break Barrel Trunk reduces average service time per pole from 47 minutes to 11 minutes in field trials and eliminates the category of incident in which a person falls off a pole.

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The Hinge Array is a multi-joint articulated arm assembly consisting of five independently motorized pivot joints connecting the Turn Pike base mount to the tablet and camera head assembly, providing a combined range of motion sufficient to reposition the unit face from a compact resting position flush with the booth structure to a fully extended operating position at driver window height for any vehicle from a compact car to a commercial truck cab without the operator doing anything except moving their head. Each joint is a sealed brushless servo motor rated for continuous outdoor operation with position feedback accurate to 0.5 degrees. The arm carries the full cable harness for power, data, and audio internally through sealed conduit channels in each segment so there are no external cables to snag, freeze, or attract attention. The resting position folds the arm to a compact profile that does not impede vehicle clearance in the lane, which was a regulatory requirement that came up during the permitting process and required a redesign of joint three.

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EXTENDS

The Boomstick is a double-barreled persuasion branch, retailing for about a hundred and nine, ninety five. Walnut stock, cobalt blue steel, and a hair trigger. Made in Grand Rapids, Michigan, which the committee notes was also peak industrial design era and refuses to elaborate. The Boomstick is classified as a communication device: it has never needed to be used, only introduced, at which point the meeting reaches consensus and everyone asks where they can get one. Deployed exactly once in corporate history, during the Snurra Reel Works acquisition, where it converted a hostile Swedish board into enthusiastic customers in under a minute. Shop smart.

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Inputs
Outputs
TREE
AVAILABLE INPUTS
AVAILABLE OUTPUTS
Schema
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                "inputs": [],
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                    "ecosystem_restaurant",
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                    "tree_backpack_crack",
                    "tree_chernobly",
                    "tree_quilted_rockstar",
                    "tree_grocery_bag",
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