Shuklaar Kyrdol
CEO of Breshig War Forge Consolidated
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create an advanced mass-driver-energy torpedo launcher hybrid weapon for use on ships or as a massive ground-to-space weapon for use by Strill Securities
- Image Source: Here.
- Canon Link: N/A.
- Permissions: N/A.
- Primary Source: Mass-driver cannon, Energy torpedo and Flak gun.
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
- Manufacturer: Breshig War Forge Consolidated.
- Affiliation: Breshig War Forge Consolidated and Strill Securities.
- Market Status: Closed-Market.
- Model: UAC-01S Usen'ye-class Ultra-heavy Accelerator Cannon.
- Modularity: Can be integrated into any ship frame larger than a corvette, or into a ground-to-space weapon emplacement.
- Production: Minor.
- Material:
- Export Version: Duranium frame, Dallorian alloy coated barrel, reinforced Duraplast-molecularly bonded Duranium composite armor plating, Agrinium mesh and Thermal gel lining, cryoban cooling system, enhanced power cycler, dedicated capacitor component, combat de-ionizer(s), energy torpedo launcher components, mass-driver components, Ultrachrome cicuitry, electronics and wiring.
- Mandalorian Customer and Internal Version: Stesr'gar frame, Dallorian alloy coated barrel, reinforced Duraplast-Stesr'gar composite armor plating, Agrinium mesh and Thermal gel lining, cryoban cooling system, enhanced power cycler, dedicated capacitor component, combat de-ionizer(s), energy torpedo launcher components, mass-driver components, Ultrachrome cicuitry, electronics and wiring.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
- Classification: Mass-driver-Energy Torpedo Launcher Hybrid.
- Size: Extremely Large.
- Weight: Extremely Heavy.
- Ammunition Type:
- Mass-driver Mode: Energy sheathed ferro-magnetic rounds, power feed.
- Energy Torpedo Mode: Energy Torpedoes.
- Ammunition Capacity: Large.
- Energy Torpedo Mode: Ammunition is effectively unlimited as long as the ship has power.
- Effective Range: Extreme.
- Rate of Fire: High.
- Damage Output: Extreme.
- Energy Torpedo Mode: The damage done when fired in this mode is reduced to a Very High rating as when compared to a dedicated energy torpedo weapon of the same size and output.
- Recoil: High.
SPECIAL FEATURES
- Fire Modes:
- Mass-driver: In this mode, the Usen'ye will function precisely like a 'standard' railgun-based mass-driver.
- Energy Torpedo Launcher: In this mode, the Usen'ye will function precisely like an energy torpedo launcher.
- Energy Sheathed Mass-driver Rounds: In this mode, the Usen'ye sheathes the mass-driver round in the same magnetically contained fusion plasma used in energy torpedo launchers, and then accelerates the round as a 'standard' railgun-based mass-driver.
- Energy Torpedo Fire Modes:
- What type of fusion plasma is used to sheathe each mass-driver round or fired in energy torpedo launcher mode can be chosen before each shot. The following types exist:
- Standard: A 'standard' packet of fusion plasma capable of immense energy release on target.
- Incendiary: Similar to the shot fired by the ancient Incinerator-class railgun, this torpedo can 'stick' to a target and continue to burn with the fury of a solar flare (naturally not the same temperature as a solar flare) for a short period of time, potentially superheating and weakening the structural integrity of armor and hull plating.
- Ion: A packet of ion particles capable of immense damage to a target's shields and other systems.
- What type of fusion plasma is used to sheathe each mass-driver round or fired in energy torpedo launcher mode can be chosen before each shot. The following types exist:
- Variety of Ammunition: Breshig War Forge Consolidated produces a variety of ammunition for the weapon:
- AP: Armor-piercing rounds with a depleted baradium core designed to act as a penetrator upon impact with armor.
- API: Depleted baradium armor-piercing tip with an incendiary plasma component.
- API-D: Depleted baradium armor-piercing tip with a delayed detonation incendiary plasma component.
- APFSDS: Depleted baradium sabot, designed to penetrate heavy armor.
- AP-Seismic: A depleted baradium tipped projectile with a seismic charge
- High Explosive Incendiary Armor Piercing: Using a deuterium based explosive to trigger a blaster gas incendiary charge before driving a depleted baradium penetrator into the target.
- HE: Baradium detonator rounds designed to explode on contact with a hard surface.
- Ion: Extremely powerful ion detonator round, designed to severely damage shields and other systems.
- Trihex-AP: Depleted baradium armor piercing tipped round with a trihexalon charge.
- Cooling Systems: In order to prevent the large amounts of heat generated by the weapon from melting it, the "Usen'ye" has an integrated cooling system that will shut the weapon down in the event of it overheating in order to perform a coolant flush and to allow the weapon to cool down. Each weapon has enough coolant to perform five coolant flushes, but can be connected to a larger coolant reservoir.
- Diagnostics and Analytics Suite: The weapon's in-built diagnostics and analysis suite keeps the crew apprised of everything from ammunition count to accelerator coil integrity and effectiveness.
STRENGTHS
- Accurate: Provided it is paired with the right sensor and fire control systems, a capable operator could make great use of the Usen'ye's inherent accuracy in all fire modes out to its furthest range increment.
- Extremely High Damage Potential: The Usen'ye has an extremely high damage potential against a wide variety of targets made from a wide variety of both conventional and exotic materials.
- Armor-piercing: All three of the Usen'ye's fire modes have a high potential to penetrate armor. This is especially the case when firing the energy torpedo/fusion plasma sheathed mass-driver rounds, as the tendency of the former to superheat the point of impact can increase the armor penetration characteristics of the mass-driver round.
- Fast Projectile Velocity: Energy torpedoes and mass-driver rounds fired by the Usen'ye reach an extremely high velocity, making avoiding them a difficult prospect, especially for targets with a notably low maneuverability and speed.
- Resilient: The launcher itself is partially exposed, and as a result the company made efforts to protect it against all manner of damage that it might be exposed to on the battlefield.
- Versatile: The Usen'ye is an extremely versatile weapons system, able to take on a variety of differently defended targets with a wide variety of projectiles that it can fire.
WEAKNESSES
- Slow Fire Mode Change: Changing between the weapon's firing modes takes a notable period of time. It is not as easy as changing the feed for projectile weapons. This is a factor that starship captains will have to take into account during engagements.
- Slow Torpedo Fire Mode Change: Changing what type of torpedo is fired, or is used to sheathe mass-driver rounds is a relatively slow process and takes just as long as the recharge cycle between shots.
- Ammunition: Once out of ammunition's, the weapon has to rely on it's comparatively less effective energy torpedo mode.
- Cooling System Malfunction: Should the cooling system malfunction or become damaged, the weapon will shut down to prevent a critical operating failure.
- EMP/Ion: If the launcher actually sustains enough EMP/Ion damage, it's accelerator rails will be permanently damaged, requiring a complete replacement of the barrel.
- Hybrid: An equivalently sized energy torpedo weapon would be able out damage this weapon when firing in energy torpedo mode.
- Sensor Suite: In order to make use of the Usen'ye's inherent range and accuracy, the mounting platform must have a powerful, high resolution, long ranged sensor suite.
DESCRIPTION
"The Usen'ye-class Accelerator Cannon, teaching Mando'a to aruetiise one ruined starship at a time."
- Breshig War Forge Consolidated marketing slogan.
The Usen'ye is the only 'gun' to enter serial production by the company to ever receive a name rather than an alphanumeric designation, and for good reason. The Usen'ye was the pet project of the at the time Fleet Admiral of Strill Securities, Skaran "Beskar" Netra, then R&D head Shuklaar Kyrdol and a young and upcoming starship captain and Shuklaar's friend, Nyles Kote. Breshig Hypernautics vessels at the time were famous for their underslung spinal mass-driver weapons, but it was a noted issue that once the weapons ran out of ammunition they were just dead weight. It was after a night of drinking that the two younger Mandalorians finally came to a rough solution when Alor'ad Kote half-drunkenly proclaimed, "What if we took a ripper, and made it bigger, and put it in space?"
As is the norm for Breshig's designers, the idea resulted in Shuklaar in dragging his poor half drunk friend back to his office. It was several hours later that they actually settled on a design that involved energy sheathed mass-driver rounds. That, however, still didn't solve the issue of the weapon ceasing to be useful once it ran out of ammunition. Not realizing how early they'd been working, the plans for the company's energy torpedo launchers crossed his desk for final approval. Hit by a sudden wave of inspiration, Shuklaar called his design heads in for a meeting and before long, the first design for what would become the Usen'ye was born.
The Usen'ye went through multiple revisions, notably trying to solve the issue of the weapon's energy torpedo launcher mode being not as powerful as an equivalently sized energy torpedo weapon. This, however, turned out to be a wasted effort. The prototype was mounted on Alor'ad Kote's Beviin-class Star Destroyer prior to an anti-piracy campaign for a client. The weapon earned it's name when Kote was famously heard telling the pirate captain to "usen'ye", before firing the weapon at his ship. The effect on target was enough to draw a moment of silence from both Kote's own crew and ships as well as those of the pirates. Needless to say, it was a short campaign.
The Usen'ye has three modes of functioning. The first is as a standard railgun based mass-driver. The Usen'ye has a wide variety of different rounds available, allowing crews to select the right slug for just about any target/situation that a battlefield might put before them. Alternatively, the Usen'ye can function as an energy torpedo launcher, capable of firing one of three different types of fusion plasma. The Usen'ye does not stop there, however. The weapon's third fire mode sheathes mass-driver rounds in any of the fusion plasmas that the weapon can fire as an energy torpedo. This gives the Usen'ye considerable versatility without really affecting it's principle handling characteristics or distinct advantages in terms of accuracy, armor-penetrating capability, damage potential and projectile speed.
Years of development however, never managed to solve two principal issues with the weapon system. The first being it's slow fire mode change. The second is it's slow energy torpedo mode change, with the process taking about as long as a full recharge cycle for the weapon system. Additionally, because of the nature of the weapon, it had a vulnerability to EMP/Ion damage, which was largely mitigated with Agrinium mesh, combat de-ionizers and reinforced duraplast armoring. That said, given the potency of ship-to-ship weapons and the semi-exposed nature, there's a high chance of a particularly potent weapon system being able to cause irreparable damage.
The technology has since been scaled down in recent years, replacing standard mass-driver cannon emplacements on company warships. It has also been offered to export customers, but an issue that has cropped up recently is that customers who mount cheaper, shorter ranged sensor systems on their ships often find they cannot make effective use of the Usen'ye. Still, years of proven capabilities have made the Usen'ye and accelerator cannons in general something of a staple in Breshig's warship weapon systems.
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