Casteban Mecetti
(Biot)
PRBC-100 'Spinerunner' Retractable Point-Defense Light Blaster Turret
- Intent: Create a light retractable blaster cannon turret offering from the House Mecetti Nationalized Industries
- Image Source: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/dual-heavy-ion-cannon-fb6b0a16ad774da8987ce33d27220552
- Animated by me using Jasc Animation Shop
- Canon Link: Two related canon entries:
- Permissions: NA
- Primary Source: https://www.starwarsrp.net/threads/...le-point-defense-heavy-blaster-cannon.181467/
- Manufacturer: House Mecetti Nationalized Industries
- Built from refit J-10 Dual Blaster Cannons originally manufactured by the Clone-War era CIS
- Affiliation: House Mecetti Nationalized Industries
- Market Status: Open Market
- Model: PRBC-100 'Spinerunner' Retractable Point Defense Light Blaster Turret
- Modularity: Yes
- Designed to interface with third-party sensors and targeting systems
- Production: Limited
- Material: Durasteel, Blaster Components
- Classification: Light Repeating Blaster Cannon Turret
- Size: Large (Domed Turret 1.5 meters across)
- Weight: Heavy (100 kg including lift and traverse servos, on-board computer, and sensors)
- Ammunition Type: Vehicle or Shipboard Power Supply, 10 pound Gas Canister.
- Ammunition Capacity: Very Large (5,000 shots per gas canister)
- Effective Range: Average
- Rate of Fire: Extremely High (200 shots per second
- Damage Output: Low (For a blaster cannon)
- Recoil: Average
- Weapon retracts into a Sensor-Shielded Compartment
- Guns can operate as a point-defense-system
- Targeting Computer
- Droid Brain can be activated for automatic operation.
- Targeting Sensor
- Network allows units to coordinate with each other and with tactical officer
- Friend-or-Foe Transciever discriminates between friendly/unfriendly targets
- When retracted, weapon is difficult to detect.
- Has computer, droid brain, and targeting sensors to target inbound threats and fire automatically.
- Can coordinate with other cannons via messaging network to achieve best attack patterns and target selection on inbound threats
- Extreme rate of fire makes weapon likely to destroy inbound torpedoes, bombs, missiles, nearby men, and even vehicles or starfighters.
- Weapon uses a great deal of ammunition.
- Low-powered for a blaster cannon, having no more power than a blaster rifle.
The House Mecetti Nationalized Industries completes their offerings in the Point-Defense blaster market with the PRBC-100, their lightest of three blaster-cannon point-defense systems. Named for a spine-covered rodent found on Javis, the Spinerunner is an economical, effective, and reliable point-defense weapon.
The PRBC-100 is a complete divergence from the 200 and 300 models. Rather than figure out how to shrink these other designs to a convenient vehicle size, House Mecetti decided to work from existing tech. They acquired a vast cache of antique war-surplus J-10 dual blaster cannons, a notoriously unreliable man-portable field weapon once used by CIS forces during the Clone Wars centuries ago. Due to the age, poor reliability, and wide availability of the weapons, they were available for a tiny fraction of their original price.
House Mecetti refurbished, modified, and incorporated the weapons into a pop-up turret. In order to solve the reliability issues, they reduced the power output of the blaster cannons to match that of a blaster rifle. At this lesser power level, the weapons were perfectly reliable and could be run nearly continuously at an extremely high rate of fire. High-speed stepper servos allow quick lift, traversal, and angle adjustment of the dual blasters to cover 360 degrees horizontally, with 15 degree declination and 50 degree inclination. The turret can be embedded in a housing that is only 1 meter deep, making it ideal for installation in vehicles such as speeder vans, walkers, and troop transports.
Because of the time it takes to remanufacture and refit old J-10 blasters for function in the turret, production is Limited. So don't wait, get yours today!
