John Locke
V U L K A N
- Intent: To submit a new technology for use by Locke and Key Mechanics
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- Manufacturer: Locke and Key Mechanics
- Affiliation: Locke and Key Mechanics
- Market Status: Closed Market
- Model: Clavis Type Armour (Prototype)
- Modularity: No
- Production: Unique
- Materials:
- Pyronium
- Ultrachrome electromagnetic coils
- Shaped Explosives
- Quadranium Frame
Armour
- Classification: Specialized Ship Armour
- Weight: Extreme
- Resistances:
- Energy (And other Blaster type weapons): Extreme
- Kinetic:: Extreme
- Lightsabers:Average
- Plasma: High
Point Defence Laser
- Classification: Point defence laser
- Size: Average
- Weight: Extremely Heavy
- Ammunition Type: Electrons
- Ammunition Capacity: Average
- Effective Range: Personal
- Rate of Fire: Extremely High
- Damage Output: Very High
- Recoil: Average
Turbolaser
- Classification: Turbolaser
- Size: Average
- Weight: Extremely Heavy
- Ammunition Type: Tibanna Gas
- Ammunition Capacity: Average
- Effective Range: Extreme.
- Rate of Fire: High
- Damage Output: Extreme
- Recoil: Average
- Provides very effective defence against physical and energy-based attacks.
- Able to generate point defence lasers without the need for a turret.
- Able to fire turbolaser blasts without the need for actual turbolaser cannons
- Armour: An armour system for capital ships that’s capable of absorbing energy attacks directed against it.
- Armour: Able to use hexes of Pyronium as an explosive reactive armour to counter physical threats that might pierce the armour.
- Using magnetic fields acting on the Pyronium to generate a free-electron laser to act as a point defence system. The prototype system is able to generate overly powerful lasers capable of putting a stop to any missile, projectile that might close with a ship and even most fighters.
- The release of Tiabanna gas allows the panels to fire turbolasers from the surface of the armour without the need for turrets. The powerful magnetic fields involved in the launch of the turbolasers allow them to hit hard and at an extreme range.
- One use: Once the hex is ejected to counter a penetrating physical attach it is gone until the ship arrives at a shipyard capable of effecting repairs to the ship. Until such a time weaknesses exist in the armour which can be exploited.
- Both the point defence lasers, and the turbolasers require the use of magnetic fields, which means that they can’t be used in nebula, furthermore weapons that create magnetic fields upon impact would prove effective at neutralising that ability.
- The preponderance of electro-magnetic fields used by the offensive systems in the armour means that any communications or sensors trying to pass through the armour will be severely degraded, in both ways. Any ships equipped with this armour will have to leave sensors and communications systems vulnerable or risk being cut off in the middle of battle.
The Clavis Type Armour is John’s answer to the various ship armours that exist in the galaxy, a high-tech solution designed to provide future Locke and Key built ships with an advanced defensive capability, the likes of which hasn’t been seen in the galaxy before.
The Clavis Type Armour is made of 4 distinct components which combine into 3 layers which combine to provide both the offensive and defensive capabilities which the armour was designed to provide.
At the core of the system were the hexes of charged Pyronium that are placed across the surface of the ship, the main component of the ship's armour. The Clavis Type Armour takes advantage of the natural ability of Pyronium to absorb electromagnetic energy, to protect the ship against energy attacks that make it through the shields. Due to the preponderance of energy weapons in the galaxy, providing a form of protection against those weapons was the primary requirement for any armour that John designed for use on capital ships. However, in the modern battlespace, kinetic weapons were also making a comeback, and John knew he couldn’t just ignore their effectiveness against Pyronium, they were in fact the reason that Pyronium was no longer commonly used as an armour component. The potential of the Pyronium however was too good to pass up, so John developed an alternative method to account for kinetic attacks which might make it through the shields of the ship. Through the use of shaped charges, he turned the hexes of Pyronium into explosive reactive armour.
In the case of a physical attack making it through the shields with such force that it would penetrate the armour the explosives would trigger, THe explosion would drive the sheet of Pyronium up against the weapon attacking. In the case of an explosive weapon, the impact would trigger the explosion far enough away from the ship that it should take little to no damage, against a kinetic projectile the impact would deflect the weapon, preventing it from causing catastrophic damage to the ship. Although a hex would be sacrificed for this purpose, it would only create a small shink in the armour instead of a deadly wound, a chink that could be repaired by the replacement of the components in the hex.
As a stand-alone armour, the Clavis Type Armour provided solid resistance against the most common weapon types a ship might be faced with, but that wasn’t enough for John, he saw the potential for the armour to do more. Pyronium was famous for being about to absorb energy into its quantum bands. Those quantum bands, however, were the same as the electron shells of a molecule. Armed with this knowledge John turned to the established method of using a powerful electromagnetic field to knock electrons out of those shells. The result is a beam of electrons, acting through a powerful magnetic field, more commonly known as a free-electron laser. The electrons interact with the field to release photons which travel along the path the electrons were previously travelling. Due to the limitations of power, the laser so produced by the Armour could not be used as capital weapons but did provide a very effective close-in-weapons system able to target and engage incoming missiles, projectiles and fighters.
The wasn’t enough for John though, he wanted to see what more could be done. After all the lasers existed and they were the base component of a turbolaser. That was all the man needed to figure out the final element of the Clavis Type Armour. The electron lasers could be used to excite a cloud of Tiabanna gas, released from the frame holding the hexes in place. The excited tibanna gas could then be directed and “fired” by the very magnetic fields creating the lasers, which would propel the turbolaser blasts forward.
The Clavis Type Armour is perhaps the most technologically advanced, and capable hull armour available in the galaxy. Capable of both incredible defensive feats and surprising offensive feats the armour heralds a new wave of ship-based technologies for the megacorporation.
