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Originally Posted by Agemegos
I envision ontogenically engineered pseudo-plants that produce a papery PET capsule with a base, with pseudo food bodies in the base producing strands or thin rods of propellant inside the capsule. When it is ripe it can be harvested for processing, but you can divert the ripe capsules for use as charges. Just put the thing into a muzzle-loader with the capsule end towards the breech, the base acting as a wad, and ram down a Minié bullet in front of it. Half-cock, attach primer to lock, Robert is your mother's brother.
It would only look like loading a musket with a bird's-eye chilli.
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You would probably want some sort of system to pierce the side of the capsule by the touchhole to let the primer's flash through. This could be as simple as sticking a skewer through the touchhole, or as complex as a mechanical system like a sewing machine's to make the hole and retract the spike (so it doesn't block the hole) just before the primer is struck.