What would be a good main cannon for a Nepleslian Ship?

[RazealK]

I'm designing basically a cannon ship..but I need a main cannon.
It's a Nepleslian automated prototype long range artillery ship.

 

[Wes]

Anti-matter railgun?

 

[RazealK]

Sorry, should have been more specific x.x
It's energy based, and splits similar to the zentradi ships from Macross/Robotech.
And how the bleeping bleepity bleep does an antimater railgun work?

 

[Yangfan]

No swearing, please.

 

[Zakalwe]

An anti-matter railgun works by using a rail gun to fire anti-matter. It's really all in the name.

 

[RazealK]

Ahh I see, Sort of like Babylon 5's PPG handguns.
So a magnetic field surrounds the anti-matter and dissapates on impact with the target, this causing said anti-matter to come in contact with normal matter, further negating each others existence?
I normally use metal slugs for railguns, and was recently playing around with warheads that release deadly radiation when they penetrate a ships hull.

 

[Zakalwe]

Uhm ... look up rail gun. Than explores the entire principle. Just replace 'projectile' with 'anti-matter projectile'.

 

[Concerto]

An energy-based cannon that splits open to fire...
Sounds to me like you're thinking of a plasma cannon of some sort.
It's either that or you want some sort of device that collects raw unpurified force and directs it in a wave towards the target, in which case you should look up Wave Motion Gun.

 

[Wes]

 

[Fred]

There are a lot of 'main cannons' in the SARP whom require split booms already. For both older KFY ships and SMX vessels anyways.

 

[Zakalwe]

There are enough main weapons as it is. If you're going to come up with another one think very carefully - powerful ones have a tendancy to be unaproved.

 

[RazealK]

I decided on a modified version of the Nepleslian Battleship's main cannon, with reduced fire rate and increased range. This would be more of a long range pinpoint weapon, like a sniper ship. The wave motion would be reserved for Fleet Destroyers, if that class or something similar is so approved. I would also like to thank you all for your help, and the pic Wes =D