Directorate Officer
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
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- Intent: To provide Lucerne Labs with an advanced tractor beam projector
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- Canon Link: N/A
- Restricted Missions: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
- Manufacturer: Lucerne Labs
- Model: Aura-class Heavy Tractor Beam Projector
- Affiliation: Closed-Market
- Modularity: No
- Production: Mass-Produced.
- Material: Durasteel casing, electronics, four tractor beam projectors, four pressor beam projectors, gravitational field disruptor
- Classification: Large Composite Tractor/Pressor Beam Projector
- Size: Very Large
- Weight: Very Heavy
- Ammunition Type: Energy
- Ammunition Capacity: Dependent on host's power source (in practical term's infinite)
- Reload Speed: Average
- Effective Range: Battlefield
- Rate of Fire: Low
- Stopping Power: High (moving objects) / Low (direct damage)
- Recoil: Very High
- Combined Tractor Beam Projectors & Gravitational Field Disruptor
- Equivalent to fifty turbolasers in terms of rough power
- Lighter/Heavier than Expected: By incorporating a Gravitational field Disruptor, Aura can somewhat alter its target's mass, making it easier to drag in, or conversely, make it denser so that it doesn't not much as it normally would.
- Area of Effect: Auras can separate their subcomponent beams to focus on a small general area (~50 meters in diameter), rather than a specific single point.
- Limited duration: Aura's gravitational field disruptor uses a tremendous amount of energy that is taxing on the host's power systems and on its own cooling system. That means that using the field disruptor causes the beam to only be utilized for brief bursts, unlike the continuous operation of typical tractor beam projectors.
- Indirect/Light Damage: Auras are exceptionally powerful tractor beams when it comes to moving thing, largely due to their gravitational field disruptor. But as directly damaging weapons, they are quite low. Each individual emitter can be tuned to pull things at different force levels to cause a shearing effect, but since the individual emitters are all quite weak, this is an inefficient weapon in terms of damage output compared to conventional weapons like turbolasers.
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