Intent: To create a standard heavy beam weapon for Republic warships.
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Canon Link: Maser
Restricted Missions: N/A
Primary Source: This submission possesses similarities to this one: L Beam. This was initially unintentional, but the prior submission helped me to develop strengths and weaknesses that actually seemed valid to this weapon type.
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Manufacturer: Republic Industries (The Republic Remnant)
Model: RLC-CMC "Continuous Megamaser Canon"
Affiliation: The Republic Remnant, Republic-In-Exile, The Directorate, Lucerne Labs
Modularity: None
Production: Minor
Material: Focusing crystals, Durasteel, titanium, Maser components
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Classification: Maser Beam Weapon
Size: Very Large
Weight: Very Heavy
Ammunition Type: Ship Reactor
Ammunition Capacity: Theoretically infinite as long as the reactor keeps running.
Reload Speed: Very Low (60 second recharge)
Effective Range: Average
Rate of Fire: Very Low (30 second continuous beam with 60 second recharge)
Stopping Power: Very High
Recoil: None
SPECIAL FEATURES
- Maser Weapon
- Continuous Beam Canon
- It's a continuous Maser beam canon that fires for a consistent thirty seconds before recharging.
- Because of its focus and continuous beam, the RLC-CMC is capable of directly targeting a ships critical systems area and firing a beam continuously on it.
- Due to being a continuous beam, the weapon is more likely to eat through a shield and hull than a standard canon that fires a single shot which is absorbed and then allows the enemy shield to regenerate at the affected area.
- As a Maser weapon it is stronger than your average laser beam because of the addition of the kinetic energy to the blast.
- This weapon is larger and more dedicated than the standard turbolaser. Because of it's size, it is a ready made target for enemy craft.
- Relatively fixed in it's location, it has a roughly 45 degree firing arc, meaning that at close range it can't adjust for as much cover as it can at it's furthest reach.
- Standard turbolaser canons can fire once every few seconds. While this canon fires constantly for thirty seconds, it has a long cool down time.
- While the weapon can traverse in it's 45 degree arc while firing, an adept captain of a smaller capital class vessel with good maneuverability can outmaneuver the guns.
Standard weapons systems have become antiquated. In the modern era of increased technological advancement, a normal response to a technological downturn, new weapons systems are constantly being developed which push the limit of capability and bring a new age of warfare to all the galaxy. Because of this, it has become necessary for governments, even ones who don't prefer to take the hostile route, to prepare themselves for the inevitability of having to deal with hostile situations involving forces with superior firepower. Not everyone is a hold out of a bygone era flying around in an ancient star destroyer ripe for destruction.
With the Republic's recent turn towards maser weaponry, as it increases the damage output over conventional laser weapons thanks to its greater velocity and kinetic impact, a new, more powerful maser was needed. Thus the RLC-CMC was born. This weapon fires a thirty second continuous beam of maser energy at the target before recharging is needed. It would seem not as great as conventional weapons because of this. However, because of advances in technology, utilizing better focusing crystals and reactor level power increases the output of the maser substantially over that of a standard megamaser weapon, approaching levels not seen since the superlasers of old.
The limitations of the weapon, the slow reload time, and size, were deemed within optimal limits based on the output of the weapon itself. The weapons system is not designed with the intention of instilling fear in the populace of governed worlds, but as a deterrent against attack from hostile forces. Stay back or taste the carnage that the RLC-CMC can inflict upon you.
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