First created two decades before the Mark-IV Conscript Rifle the Mark-V Semi Automatic Pistol was designed to replace the aging Mark-IV Double Action revolver in response to the rise of several competitors vying for the contracts that could be provided by the Lyronian Imperial Army, Navy and the newly formed Air Force. Pulling in a fair number of connections and making a fair number of bribes in the House of Lords and the procurements board, Hawkins Armaments rolled out the new design, the Mark-V Semi Automatic Pistol. It proudly boasted that it could provide a million of these guns in six months and said order was met, leading to the Hawkin's Mark-V to be a standard part of the gear of all NCOs in the Imperial Army.





Cheap and quick to make in bulk the Hawkins Mark-V Pistol fired a modest 8.5x25mm cartidge from a detachable 7 round magazine using a recoil operation. It is reasonably accurate by pistol standards. An early prototype of the Mark-V had an exposed component which could cause the weapon to fire by pressing it in the wrong way when the safety was off, though this was corrected before manufacturing began. As it stood it was a useful tool for sergeants in making sure that the conscripts that they were assigned to lead did their duty and in firefights with only the minor complication that occasionally it would fall apart under battlefield conditions. They were also issued to enlisted soldiers which had proven themselves in battle as a reward for their service. Officers, which were normally among the wealthier classes of the Empire's population could accept a Mark-V Semi-Automatic pistol or buy another sidearm with their own money, many of which did. The Hawkins Mark-V Pistol also found it's ways into police service, as well as being a common tool of mischief among organized crime syndicates around the world. A lot of them were made and a lot needed to be sold off.

