There are a lot of bandits on Pandora, okay! And most of them are the bad kind that want to murder you and peel the skin off your face, so you need something like that for crowd control.

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MIRV grenades will also work in a pinch. The ones that explode more than once?

[ Ahhh, nostalgia. Blood and guts are gross close up, but that doesn't mean she can't be weirdly sentimental about watching the vault hunters kick ungodly amounts of butt through her cameras. Soooooo cooooooooool. ]