Nicademus Blith
War as a business to end war as a business
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Intent: To Create a deadly short ranged weapon for starships
Development Thread: If needed
Manufacturer: Blith-Tech
Model: CAP-154 Shattercannon
Affiliation: Closed Market (Requires permission/contract thread)
Modularity: N/A
Production: Mass Produced
Material: Gravity coils, Turret Components
Classification: Capital Ship Gun
Size: Capital Ship Mounted
Length: 4 meters
Weight: 2 Metric Tons
Ammunition Type: Cluster Shells
Ammunition Capacity: Shell loaded (1 round)
Effective Range: Quad laser cannon range
Rate of Fire: Single Fire
Special Features: Cluster shells
(Equivalent to 5 capital gun)
Strengths: Tears through armor. No explosives
Weaknesses: Extremely Close Range, Not good against shields
Description: The CAP-154 Shattercannon is a gun designed for extremely close range combat against heavily armored vessels. The gun works on a mechanism simmilar to that used in a verpine shattergun, except on an extremely higher scale. It fires large "shells" containing much smaller nonexplosive kinetic projectiles. The shells are accelerated to extremely high speeds by Gravity coils. Once the shell leaves the barrel, it parts open releasing many of the relatively small pellets in the firing direction. The Pellets might be small on a battle scale, but are fairly large by human standards, being roughly the size of a baseball. These pellets are designed to tear through armor by putting extremely concentrated pressure on the armor causing it to shatter. After the pellets are inside they can do system or personnel damage. The disadvantage of this weapon is that the weapon is extremely close range, having the range of a standard quad laser canon, but once a ship is within range it will tear through hulls with 12 times the firepower of a standard turbo laser. The weapon is far less effective against shields, as the high velocity and spread out damage are quickly dispersed by anything but the weakest shield systems giving them a 2/3rd the effectiveness of a standard turbolaser.
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