Craft and Equipment - Spectrum Equipment:  SPECTRUM ISSUE ARMAMENT  

CAPTAIN SCARLET and the MYSTERONS UNOFFICIAL WEBSITE

by Chris Bishop

Mysteron guns were developed by the Spectrum Intelligence Agency as a weapon against the Mysterons once-human agents.  In the episode "Operation Time", it was discovered that Mysteron agents were impermeable to x-rays (which brought the conception of the Mysteron detector), and vulnerable to electricity, which prompted the conception of the Mysteron gun. Information taken from a quote by Dr. Giardello:

"A beam of electrons are produced by the electrodes.  These are concentrated by the prisms and projected at the speed of light along the reflective barrel.  We anticipate (a range of) something like 50 yards."

These Mysteron guns are red and silver, have a large body, composed of twin parallel cylinders, a long barrel, and are held by a bar grip against the wearer's chest, supported by a harness worn over the shoulders.  Demonstration of the Mysteron gun, along with the Mysteron detector, was made in the episode "Spectrum Strikes Back."  Strangely, in the other episodes of the series, it was never used.  Bullets from the handgun seemed good enough to stop Mysteron agents, or, for that matter, a violent explosion.  However, in the episode "Noose of Ice", one such agent was electrocuted by high voltage, just like Doctor Magnus in "Operation Time".  Also, in "The Launching", the handgun didn't seem quite enough to kill the Mysteron agent, who was destroyed in an explosion.

SPECTRUM ISSUE SPACESUIT HANDGUNS

Much like the normal Spectrum issue handguns, in that these devices also fire ammunition-shells and not a projected beam of energy.  This pistol device is colour-coded for each Captain, and held in a colour-coded hip-holster on the right side of the colour-coded Spectrum issue spacesuit, as worn by Captains Scarlet, Blue and Lieutenant Green in episode 18, "Crater 101".