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Intent: To create a powerful alternate offensive weapon system comparable to a heavy mass driver cannon battery
Development Thread: None
Manufacturer: Imperium Forge Works
Model: IFWT 201-A MACRO Cannon
Affiliation: Close Select Market (must have contract thread)
Modularity: Variable Warheads (to be submitted separately)
Production: Mass
Material:
*Alusteel
* Recoil Absorption Mount
* Tractor Beam Projector
* Repulsor Beam Projector
Classification: Starship Mounted
Size: Starship Offensive Mount (Counts as 8 Turbolasers)
Length: 30 meters
Weight: 50000 tons
Ammunition Type: 10 meter reactive tip slug
Ammunition Capacity: 1000 round starship magazine
Effective Range: Standard heavy turbolaser range
Rate of Fire: once every 20 second
Special Features:
Heavy Firepower
Variable warhead types
Recoil Assist
Mass Assist
Strengths:
Variable Warheads - The MACRO Cannon can fire an assortment of warhead tipped Slugs.
Large Powerful Weapon - The MACRO cannon is a beast of a weapon which can cause heavy damage to even the toughest of armor and shielding.
Weaknesses:
Slow Rate OF Fire - Because of the reload and power charge needed for the weapon the rate of fire is slow.
Large - Because of the massive size and power consumption of the weapon it takes the space of eight turbolaser cannons
Description:
The IFWM 201-A MACRO "Mass Acceleration Coil Reactive Ordinance" Cannon - is a powerful starship and planetary installation based weapon system. Generally mounted on starships, orbital defense platforms, and planetary based anti starship weapon installations, the MACRO cannon is a large slug launcher which uses massive electromagnetic coils to accelerate a projectile to six meters per second. Massive slugs are moved into place by the magazines autoloading systems then placed into a field, which is created by a tractor beam and repulsor beam, minimizing the slugs mass and assisting the coils by keeping the slug in a state of null mass. This allows the projectile to achieve high rates of momentum with a much shorter rail system
The entire weapon is mounted on a huge carriage which is based on the Autosteady gyro-gimbal. This limited the recoil on the firing vessel or installation and kept the ship from being affected and the targeting of the system in line. The massive slugs were ejected and unguided after firing. MACRO cannons can be mounted in fixed mounts with minimum elevation or tracking or in large turrets for improved fire arc and targeting capabilities.
The weapon fires massive ten meter long slugs which can be tipped with a variety of warheads Each warhead utilizes a nose mounted trigger which once impacted will begin the warheads specific role programming.
Primary Source:
* BFG Armada wiki
* Lexicanum BFG wiki
