Casteban Mecetti
(Biot)
RBC-200 'Hedgehog' Retractable Point-Defense Heavy Blaster Cannon
- Intent: Create a medium retractable blaster cannon offering from the House Mecetti Nationalized Industries
- Image Source: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/W2zV6Q
- Canon Link: Two similar canon entries:
- Permissions: NA
- Primary Source: https://www.starwarsrp.net/threads/...le-point-defense-heavy-blaster-cannon.181467/
- Manufacturer: House Mecetti Nationalized Industries
- Affiliation: House Mecetti Nationalized Industries
- Market Status: Open Market
- Model: PRBC-200 'Hedgehog' Retractable Point-Defense Heavy Blaster Cannon
- Modularity: No
- Production: Limited
- Material: Durasteel, Blaster Components
- Classification: Blaster
- Size: Large
- Weight: Heavy (250 kg)
- Ammunition Type: Building or Shipboard power supply, Large 60 pound Gas Canister installed in Building or Ship where gun is installed
- Ammunition Capacity: Very Large (2,500 shots per gas canister)
- Effective Range: Average
- Rate of Fire: Very High (100 shots per second
- Damage Output: Average
- Recoil: High (Must be installed on ship or vehicle weighing at least 5 tons to avoid adverse recoil effects.)
- 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 and droid brain that can use 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
- Very High rate of fire makes weapon likely to destroy inbound torpedoes, bombs, missiles, and even starfighters.
- Blaster Cannons are unsuitable for damaging anything larger than a Starfighter or light freighter.
- Can't engage Distant targets.
- Large, Heavy Units with large gas canisters and sensor-shielded compartments use up about .5 tons of vehicle/ship cargo space per unit.)
- High Recoil will adversely impact any ship or vehicle with less than 5 tons of mass.
The House Mecetti Nationalized Industries continues their offerings in the Point-Defense market with the PRBC-200, their mid-range of three planned point-defense systems. Designed to be installed on light freighters and long-range starfighters, they lack the long-range capability which most shipboard weapons have. This is because their role is to defend against inbound ordinance while dissuading encroaching starfighters, not to proactively attack enemy vessels.
In the role of defense, the PRBC-200 has everything you need. A very high rate of fire ensures that a cloud of blaster bolts greets every inbound threat. The weapons are retractable, so that a well-defended ship need not appear to be a well-armed ship. This is vital in civilian-adjacent activities and even full on military activities where an offensive posture is not always desirable.
Should you purchase multiple cannons, they can network with each other to divide the sky or starscape into defense zones, ensuring that no two cannons waste fire on the same targets. This enables the sorts of defensive fire efficiency that ensures no threat is missed, and no shots are wasted.
If your enemies have squadrons of fighters or swarms of missiles, the PRBC-200 is the right defense solution for you.
