Wow. No, these spindly antennas should not count toward the effective tier categorization of this vessel. I mean, let's be reasonable. x_x
According to its radius and how its width is surely inferior to that, it seems to squeeze into 'Light Starship' at best.
So, according to what I initially cobbled up on per-ship weapon payload limitations:
8x Tier 10 -> 4x Tier 11 -> 2x Tier 12 -> 1x Tier 13
For perspective, a Yui-7 is close to the same size and packs one heavy anti-starship main aether array, and has 2 torpedo tubes that can fire forward (4 torps per tube). In means that in an initial salvo, it can do 3 times Tier 12 damage. Hefty, but part of that firepower comes from ammunition stores. So, it comes frontloaded with a lot of firepower, but that doesn't last for too long.
By contrast... wowza, this thing can pack the same amount of firepower as a Plumeria's main gun. Credible? Let's see. You swiftly are going to blast apart pretty much everything up to a Super Eikan heavy cruiser. Rate of fire is... 10 pulses per seconds? Then I look at the nature of the weaponry, which is 6 groups of 9 cells containing 6 beam lenses - 324 beam lenses total. My own skepticism aside, I am 100% convinced
@Wes would look at this and go "lol no". (a point of pride for Wes appears to be the Plumeria being able to pack a Tier 14 weapon in the smallest package possible)
I kind of want to stay faithful to the artwork. So, bringing about that conversion system Zack was referencing to...
512x Tier 4 -> 256x Tier 5 -> 128x Tier 6 -> 64x Tier 7 -> 32x Tier 8 -> 16x Tier 9 -> 8x Tier 10 -> 4x Tier 11 -> 2x Tier 12 -> 1x Tier 13
Let's be generous and say that each beam lense would fit in Tier 5. That's a power armor's decent beam rifle of somekind. Seems respectable, except I guess it doesnt fulfill Zack's ship-to-ship ambitions.
So, let's say that 6 beam lenses clustered together could focus together to be more than the sum of their parts. That might about to 54 instances of, say, Tier 7 damage total? Okay, so, now they're shaping up to be more like tank weapons in potency... a point where it becomes a fairly potent threat to starfighters. It can only fire in front of it, but, wow, so many lazers fired by all those 54 cells.
So, I guess the next step is when you'd combine all those cells together to focus fire with the entire group? Being generous, I guess those could count as 6x Tier 11 weapons? We'd be basically saying that all of those little beam lenses, all clustered together, would be able to do 3 times the amount of firepower a Plumeria's twin positron railguns would be able to muster, without having to carry the troublesome anti-matter along.
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Nope, too advantageous. You're packing a lot of cheap inexpensive weaponry along. It's already miraculous that those can focus together to churn out more damage in 3-steps. So, I could top at Tier 10, but this whole thing is a concept of killing by papercuts. Papercuts do not collectively come together to equate to multiple swords. I'd give this 54x Tier 7 weapons. Connect with all of those on a Tier 10 target, and you're doing a collective 7% damage to a barrier per hit. A light starship caught in that is going to be smelted down.
The problem, though, is that anything above a light starship is going to shrug off the majority of that since the beam lenses are just so small. I'm not adverse to bigger energy weapons firing more shots that would count as less - but this is
clearly not it.