DEMETER
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create one of the largest guns that Primo Victorian has made to date.
- Image Source: Corvin Stichert, Artstation (x) [The four forward cannons that are visible represent the Demeter].
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: Ares-type, Mass Driver Cannon, Gustav, ID-84, Non-Newtonian Fluids, Micro Gravity Well Mine
- Manufacturer: Primo Victorian Shipwright
- Affiliation: Primo Victorian Shipwright
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: VWC-HVD-GS800 "Demeter"
- Modularity: No
- Production: Semi-Unique
- Material:
- Animated Metal Sealant
- Durasteel Reinforced Depleted Baradium
- Ionization Field Components
- Mass Driver Components
- Gauss/Coil, Electromagnetic Rail Components
- Classification: Mass Driver Cannon
- Size: Extremely Large
- Weight: Extremely Heavy
- Ammunition Type: Depleted Baradium Shells
- Ammunition Capacity: Very Large
- Effective Range: Extreme
- Rate of Fire: Low
- Damage Output: Extreme
- Recoil: Average
- The Demeter utilizes a 36-inch diameter shell, made from depleted baradium that has been augmented with a high amount of ardanium increasing the shell’s strength in the presence of radiation. Beneath this layer is a layer of durasteel that has been reinforced and is coated in an animated metal sealant.
- An anti-ion mesh lines the shell beneath the animated metal sealant.
- Shells are typically packed with thermite, and all shells are packed with an electromagnetic exciter disk in the rear of the shell.
- There are some shells that are packed with collapsium gas, and liquid baradium.
- Ionization of the shell may be done by enabling the artillery unit’s ionization field.
- There is an option to pack shells with crystadurium ball bearings that have been coated in ardanium with the idea to create more shrapnel upon impact. [Ball Bearing]
- Encapsulated tibanna gas accompanied by baradium-impregnated detonite encased in a conductive shell, can also be packed into shells. [Plasma]
- Interdiction and Gravity Shells contain oxidizer elements, along with packets of thermite gel + conflagrine-14 that are attached to the underside of the cap by glop-20 components. There are shells that have been packed with thermite instead of illerium, with disks of rhydonium on the underside, still adhered by glop-20 components.
- Components of an ID-84 missile are built into the body of the shell, with the front being filled with detonite and illerium. [Interdiction]
- A micro-gravity well mine is crafted into the body of the shell with a liquid-proof housing so that the body can be filled with liquid baradium and pellets of collapsium gas. The cap of the shell contains illerium, and is then pumped with tibanna gas before being sealed. [Gravity]
- Fire-link capable, built-in heuristic data processing for performance improvement.
- Single target tracking, and automated lock-on/lead system.
- Internal temperature check, automated fail-safe, and containment system.
- Range-finder and built-in range sensors, automated warning for incoming fire.
- Gauss/coil firing-mechanisms, electromagnetic rails; this is boosted by a rocket launch-like system.
- Dedicated power supply generators with an increased number of crystal chamber matrix featuring boreas and energy crystals. Includes batteries for excess power storage and access, heatsinks, fans, and built-in cooling devices to prevent the cannon from overheating.
- Dedicated shield generators that include redundant and regenerative properties. Ion shield and shield booster are also included. Shields can draw extra power from the independent shield generator.
- Recoil control management systems, internal inertial dampeners, kinetic energy absorption systems, and emergency Newtonium liquids.
- Remote-activated exciter disk sensor system, remote detonation monitor, emergency detonation override system.
- Single-barrel design for the most effective damage output.
- Gravitational Games: Implementing interdiction missile and gravity well mine components into some of the largest shells to be produced. Leaves the Demeter as one of the most destructive mass driver cannons that Primo Victorian has produced to date.
- Interception: Other missiles and starships weapon systems are able to fire on the shell and prevent it from reaching its target destination. It will then instead detonate where it was intercepted. Creating an indiscriminate weapon killing friend and foe alike where it detonates.
- Electromagnetics: Perhaps the best way to stop the missile would be with electromagnetic pulse weapons. This would eliminate the shells’ electrical components limiting their detonation to a smaller radius and without its rather dramatic impact.
The Demeter is the latest in mass driver cannons from Primo Victorian. This particular weapon would only be made to order instead of put into regular production. The gun would have to be built into the structure of whatever platform it would be placed on. Making the gun a forward-fixed gun, forcing its platform to maneuver in order to fire. Building the gun into the platform would give room for inertial dampeners, power supplies, and small shield generators to protect the gun’s housing unit.
Recoil mitigation is one of the Demeter’s key systems, which includes shock absorption systems, and aforementioned inertial dampeners. Emergency recoil mitigation has been integrated into the housing unit, which consists of Newtonium Fluids. This emergency recoil mitigation system is triggered by a series of sensors and warnings sent by the housing unit’s computer system in the event that either the shock absorption system, inertial dampener system, or both fail.
Unique to the Demeter is the construction of their shells. While made from the Primo Victorian standard of depleted-baradium, these shells are augmented with high amounts of ardanium. Ardanium allows the shell’s metal casing to grow stronger in the presence of radiation.
Beneath this is a layer of reinforced durasteel that has been coated with an animated sealant, in the event the outermost layer has been stripped. This ensures that the components within the shell remain untouched as they travel across the void to their final destination.
Equipped with the standardized ball bearing and plasma shells, the Demeter is uniquely equipped with interdiction and gravity shells. All of which are meant to bring large super star destroyers back down to earth. The idea of either shell was to help take down extremely large vessels/platforms/space stations with a single hit or decimate enemy fleets. In either case, engineers had to take apart both an ID-84 Missile and a Micro-Gravity Well Mine. The weapons were studied in detail and plans were formulated on reconstructing them within the massive shell.
The addition of illerium presented a unique challenge as it triggers when exposed to air. While there would be air present within its target, engineers wanted to be sure that the illerium would be given ‘air’ in which to trigger. Thus oxidizers were utilized as an insurance measure. Furthermore, not all shells would be packed with the illerium and some would instead have a rather ‘mundane’ explosive component consisting of thermite and rhydonium.
Detonation for any of the shells are either by sensor-triggered proximity or remote detonation. The sensor is loaded with information about the target that is acquired by the Demeter’s gun crews. The shell can be fired without loading target information, in which case, it is then a dumb fired shell as opposed to a ‘smart’ shell and will detonate on impact with whatever it hits.
Housing units for the Demeter include its own dedicated power generators, along with shields. The Demeter features a redundant reinforced shield generator and regenerative deflector shields with both an ion shield and shield boosting mechanism that would draw energy from the power generator’s auxiliary batteries. In that event the Demeter would be unable to fire until power was shifted back to the batteries. For this reason, the Demeter is not to be housed on platforms smaller than 2000m.
The weapon utilizes a combination of lift and conveyor technology to move the shells into place. This is largely automated but is overseen by a specialized crew who oversee the loading and reloading process. Like many of Primo Victorian’s other mass driver cannons the shells are propelled by a gauss/coil firing-mechanism along electromagnetic rails, however; unlike most of the other cannons. Demeter has a small rocket boost at the base of the barrel to help the shell accelerate.
Coil compensators aid the large coils through the acceleration process by reducing the amount of stress that they take on directly. This allows the large coils to be able to produce the same amount of energy over and over again. This creates a more effective acceleration process allowing for a faster launch process. This allows the Demeter to shoot more shells in less time than it otherwise would have been capable of doing.
The sheer size leaves it open to be countered by other missiles, and other ships’ weapons systems. It can also have its sensors incapacited by missile deactivation transmitters that then renders the shell as a ‘dumb’ fired shell leaving it to meet whatever is in its path. The shell can also be tractored away from its target or possibly pushed back, this requires a repulsor mechanism powerful enough to push away the large target traveling at a fraction of the speed of light.
Demeter does have its weaknesses. Including that the shell itself is vulnerable to interception perhaps more so than traditional mass driver rounds. The kill for the shell would almost certainly be an electromagnetic pulse device to eliminate all of the electronic components of the shell leaving only the explosive elements to detonate. Of which the detonation event would be smaller when compared to allowing its electronic components to remain activated.
Perhaps though, the question that remains is why was the Demeter created. The answer to that question is this; with the advent of more superweapons, and superstar destroyers. Primo Victorian wanted to create an answer to these weapons and ships. Something that could with less effort counter them in such a way that many would not be able to counter.
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