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Ok, why does a defensive weapon fire at .5c. Sand at that speed is pretty darn offensive.
You seem to contradict yourself,
accelerating small silicon crystal sands to
ferroious sands with iron particulates suspended in a silicon matrix
So which is it. silicon or ferrous btw you misspelled ferrous
I'm also a little concerned with the name, since it is so close to Sandcasters, a sand based anti-laser system from the Traveller RPG.
can encompass an area of a kilometer to hundreds <- really vague. need some sort of specifications. How much area can a canister realistically cover in an effective concentration. After all, you would not deploy it in an non-effective concentration.
Ok, first to avoid the issue of the Traveller term, can we rename this Sand Cannons which is really what you are talking about.
Next there is a problem, the sand is propelled by mass driver effect. When it is ejected, in space it will not become a cloud, it will stay in the shape of the barrel and be a compressed mass of sand. Visually it would look like a sand disk flying at high speed.
If you are wanting to get the cloud you need to fire this stuff and then have something disperse it.
Similar to the Ke-T8-W3103L Laser Refracting Cloud (Duster)
Over all this is looking very good, but... I don't know about being able to install a mass driver device that is capable of relativistic speeds on to a fighter.
Mass drivers require volume, the barrel for the stuff to be propelled.
I was mostly going to use a miniaturized version of it on the fighter, and considering the low damage it produces. But I can remove it as a fighter capable weapon.