Combat
Shootout
Shootout noun - A fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten.
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- Very few human ships are powerful enough or large enough to combat a Berserker in a straight shootout.
Source: Literature / Berserker -
Lampshaded in Tesla Effect, when Tex has a flashback to one of the combat sections from Mean Streets and says that he decided never to get into a shootout again.
Source: Video Game / Tex Murphy -
He's a combat android they'd left as a guard, the shootout he starts up alerts the meeting.
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