Bombshell Genius
Three Galidraan mounts
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To provide a consolidation HVC that can be fitted on small ships
- Image Source: ModDB
- Canon Link: N/A
- Restricted Missions: N/A
- Primary Source: 8"/55 caliber gun
- Manufacturer: Ringovinda Systems
- Model: 203mm/55 triple-barrel Galidraan heavy hypervelocity cannon
- Affiliation: Open-Market
- Modularity: Can fire a wide variety of ammunition
- Production: Mass-Produced
- Material: Superconductor coils (in the barrel), standard hypervelocity gun components, quadanium plating (turret), durasteel
- Classification: Heavy long-range hypervelocity cannon
- Size: Ship-Mounted
- Length: 20m (turret included)
- Weight: 460 tons dry (turret included)
- Ammunition Type: Shells
- Ammunition Capacity: 1000 rounds
- Effective Range: Standard heavy long-range hypervelocity cannon (standard heavy long-range turbolaser)
- Rate of Fire: 2 rounds per second
- Acceleration coils
- Integrated targeting computer
- Burst firing (5/10/15 seconds)
While the Summer 380mm HVC proved to be of use for fighting enemy capital ships at long ranges, it was found that the sheer size of its magazine limited deployment to cruisers and larger ships, and that, by reducing the size of the magazine, one could mount even larger ammunition on smaller ships, and even more turrets on a ship, so the caliber was brought down to 203mm, so any capital ships can mount one (although corvettes will likely have one as its only anti-capital ship weapon). Due to the smaller ammunition caliber, higher firing rates can be achieved. Each barrel fires 1 round per second, with two barrels on each turret, for a total firing rate of 2 rounds per second. Also, due to the risk of weapons overheat, there are time limits on the bursts being fired: 5, 10 and 15 seconds. However it requires a cooldown period twice as long: 10, 20 and 30 seconds.
It also shares many of the weaknesses commonly associated with such massive emplacements: slow traverse (while faster than its 380 and 420mm siblings, it is not suitable for hitting attack craft), the turret must be integrated into the vessel due to the projectile-loading assembly taking up two decks underneath the rotational assembly. Accuracy is comparable to standard HVC accuracy, but the nature of acceleration coils makes it so that it requires a lot of maintenance outside combat to ensure the hypervelocity cannon will work when in combat.
Important note: For shipbuilding purposes, counts for 50 capital guns towards an armament rating
Strengths:
- Can penetrate and bypass ray shields (damage is then absorbed by particle shields)
- Can fire a wide variety of ammunition
- Long range
- Limited ammunition
- Limited tracking: it has a hard time tracking attack craft
- Large emplacement: it is a liability for the mount ship if exposed
- Can only be mounted on capital ships
- Long cooldown (10, 20 and 30 seconds after firing bursts of 5, 10 and 15 seconds respectively)
