Editing Backdraft Cindershot

{{Status|Canon}}
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{{Article quote|Modified firing core with a three-phase sequential detonation.{{Ref/Game|Id=forge|HINF|[[Forge]] - Backdraft Cindershot description|Quote=Modified firing core with a three-phase sequential detonation.}}}}
The '''Backdraft Cindershot''' is a modified variant of the [[Cindershot]], a [[hardlight]] [[grenade launcher]] designed and created for use by the [[Forerunner]]s.{{Ref/Twitter|Id=FF|Halo|1565686258944311299|Halo|Quote=Effectively a hard light grenade launcher, the Cindershot’s hyper-charged packets of splinter cores and their subsequent detonation is deadly in close and long-range engagements. When zoomed in, splinter cores can manually track targets too. #FictionFriday|D=02|M=09|Y=2022}}{{Ref/Site|Id=Support|URL=https://support.halowaypoint.com/hc/en-us/articles/6882880281364-Halo-Infinite-Weapon-Equipment-and-Vehicle-Inventory-|Site=Halo Support|Page=Halo Infinite Weapon, Equipment, and Vehicle Inventory|D=05|M=05|Y=2023}}

==Overview==
===Design details===
{{Main|Cindershot}}
The Backdraft Cindershot is variant of the standard Cindershot. In addition to having a white chassis, its employs a modified firing core with three-phase sequential detonation.{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}}{{Ref/Reuse|forge}}{{Ref/Reuse|Support}} Subsequently, the Backdraft Cindershot fires projectiles that splinter into multiple projectile which then detonate at their next point of impact.{{Ref/Reuse|gameplay}}

===Usage===
As the Forerunner [[Ecumene Council]] prepared to declare [[Human-Forerunner wars|war]] on [[Ancestors|ancient humanity]], [[Bitterness-of-the-Vanquished]] requisitioned a Backdraft Cindershot from the [[Ferrarius Assembler Vats]] for Ur-Didact's personal use, correctly predicting Ur-Didact would be interested in testing out the weapon when he first heard about the Cindershot.{{Ref/Reuse|CF}} Millennia later, one such weapon entered the possession of [[Myriad]], a pair of [[Mgalekgolo]] in the [[Banished]] during the [[Battle for Zeta Halo|campaign]] on [[Installation 07]] in [[2559]]-[[2560]].{{Ref/Game|HI|[[High Value Target]] dossier, Myriad}} During the campaign, they protected the weapon until their deaths at the hands of [[John-117]].{{Ref/Quest|HI|Reformation|Myriad}}

==In-game information==
The Backdraft Cindershot is a [[Legendary variant weapons|legendary weapon]] awarded to the player after defeating the [[High Value Target]]s, [[Myriad]]. The weapon can be acquired at any [[Forward Operating Base]] within the campaign. It fires projectiles that splinter into multiple projectile which then detonate at their next point of impact.{{Ref/Reuse|gameplay}} The Backdraft Cindershot can also be acquired in the open world; one can be found in a Forerunner armory near a [[Mjolnir Armory|Mjolnir Armory locker]] (which contains the Olympic [[Stance]]), west of [[Ransom Keep (location)|Ransom Keep]], with the armory entrance facing the edge of the ring fragment.

==Gallery==
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File:HINF BackdraftCindershot Icon.png|Backdraft Cindershot icon in the HVT dossier menu.
HINF CF141 BackdraftCindershot.jpg|The Backdraft Cindershot in a vault on Installation 07.
File:HINF BackdraftCindershot 1.jpg|A Spartan with the Backdraft Cindershot in multiplayer.
File:HINF BackdraftCindershot 2.jpg|A Spartan sprinting with the Backdraft Cindershot in multiplayer.
File:HINF BackdraftCindershot 3.jpg|A Spartan reloading the Backdraft Cindershot in multiplayer.
</gallery>

==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo Infinite]]'' {{1st}}

==Sources==
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{{Forerunner|weapons}}
[[Category:Forerunner weapons]]
[[Category:Grenade launchers]]