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Reitus Frontier Type Revolver

With the defeat and annexation of the Aggrenarian Empire in 1821 came wide new swaths of land for the Hymuth Empire to administer. As a region of sparsely populated desert and oasis towns, exerting control deep into the territory and even moving troops between locations was difficult, and Hymuth grip over the region was tenuous at best. This erupted into violence in the Great Aggrenarian Revolt in 1845, mostly caused by Hymuth attempts to centralize their rule of the region without having the necessary control. To combat this, the Hymuth Empire established a gendarmerie (known as the Special Constabulary of the Imperial Aggrenarian Territories) to police these territories in 1853. A primarily mounted force to traverse the wide stretches of desert, these troops needed a lightweight, reliable, and hardy handgun, and this was quickly found out when feedback began to pour in from the troops regarding their dissatisfaction with the long rifles they'd been given. For this task, the Hymuths commissioned famed gunsmith and Hymuth local Makaharus Reitus in 1857 for the task. The result was the Frontier Revolver, a single-action 6-shot cartridge revolver that was Hymuth's first cartridge revolver. Simple, easy to use, and relatively resilient, the revolver was a success on release, but it was only produced in small numbers owing to its limited scope, intended only to be used by the Special Constabulary. In total, only about 25,000 were built, as by the early 1900s the revolver had been replaced by semi-automatic blowback pistols.