Fred
Retired Staff
KFY W2901 Aether Beam Cannon
Far tamer than anti-fleet 'shock' cannons, the W2901 Aether Beam Cannon was designed to provide a ship with a knock-out punch that would be more reliable and less hazardous to use than anti-fleet weaponry and projected aether beams.
Usually mounted on the fore of a KFY-built vessel's prow, this weapon uses a spatial distortion to release condensed potentials from the aether in a coherent phased beam. Because of the subspace effects of beam, it naturally pierces distortion-based shields. The weapon functions more like it was a giant counterpart of the M2 Mindy power armor's beam rifle than actual projected aether, making it safer to use in home territory as well as causing less strain on the ship's Combined Field System. It has no minimum range.
The main advantage of the beam cannon over it's 'shock cannon' cousin aside from it's safer-to-use feature is it's considerably increased firing rate, up to four pulses a minute, or a less powerful but sustained 'sawing' beam. This makes the W2901 potentially superior in performance compared to the W2900 Aether Shock Cannon in smaller skirmishes.
Primary Purpose:
Anti-Starship
Secondary Purpose:
Heavy Assault, Anti-Mecha (in sustained beam mode)
Damage:Range:
- Pulsefire - Total Annihilation in a focused, expanding burst of 6 to 750 meters in diameter (maximum size is limited by the size of a ship's distorsion field, i.e.: a 150 meter-wide ship probably can't go up to 750 meters).
- Sustained Beam - Total Annihilation in a beam of 1 to 25 meters in diameter. Can be used to cut swaths across a wide expanse or zig zag from one target to another at will.
150,000,000 km (About 1 AU or 93,000,000 miles)
Rate of Fire:
The W2901 aether beam cannon and projected aether beams cannot be used at the same time since they both tap in the ship aether generator in the same manner. Rate of fire listed in slices of 15 seconds to scale evenly with projected aether beams rate of fire.Payload:
- Pulsefire - 1 burst per 15 seconds.
- Sustained Beam - Constantly sustained through 15 seconds.
Effectively unlimited, so long as the ship provides power.
Also something I'm submitting that I planned using with the Type-29 Nekovalkyrja Escort. It's essentially a smaller superheavy aether weapon that's meant to attack single ships instead of large fleets. The good points of it's use is that it's firing arc is smaller, so, it doesn't tear through subspace as much. Also, since it resorts more toward how Mindy rifles fire, the ship's CFS shielding isn't weakened as much as it would have been with a big ass 30 degree area in front of a ship as far as 1 AU being totalled.
And it fires faster, making it far more reliable in hairy situations than the main guns that take a whole minute to charge.