Sala'dine
Admiral of the Ghost Fleet
- Intent: To make a piece of tech that can be used for ships
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- Manufacturer: Saotome Foundry
- Affiliation: Company Name (Sasori Research)
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: Tractor/Pressor Battery
- Modularity: Designed to be scaled to ships and fighters
- Production: Mass-Produced. (Anyone.)
- Material:
- Classification: Tractor/Pressor Beam
- Size: Large
- Weight: Heavy
- Ammunition Type: Power Capacitor
- Ammunition Capacity: Extremely Small
- Reload Speed: Very Low
- Effective Range: Battlefield
- Rate of Fire: Very Low
- Damage Output: Very High
- Recoil: None
- Designed to work against fighters
- Designed to tractor Larger ships
- Overwhelming Force: Designed as a unique countemeasure against starfighters and smaller craft. A sweeping battery of tractor beams can be used to target several craft at once and disrupt them
- Shroud: The basis of a shroud is to confuse and escape a tractor beam, the inclusion of several beams sweeping in an area make tractor shrouds less effective but not impossible to be used
- Magnite: Magnite crystals are impressive for tractor and pressor beams able to let smaller vessels have the strength to tractor ships larger then themselves
- Laminanium: Designed to repair stress and from prrolonged use micro fractures. The repairing capabilities are not huge and it takes more time with the longer the bomblet is used.
- Build up: Spinning up the batteries takes awhile, so that it can be maintained and used as a means to pick and either pull in or repel ships
- Single Shot: It isn't made to rapid fire, once it is on the tractor beams or pressor beams are on and need to be turned off
- No Tracking: The battery is designed more like a shotgun style approach. When used previously by the chiss it worked best to find and stop stealth ships that wouldn't be expecting it or have counter measures to escape. It mostly relies on blind firing off to create an area ot beams
- Pull: While the tractor beams are able to be stronger and grasp larger objects and ships. It is only for a moment as the larger object can and will eventually start pulling the smaller vessel with its sheer size.
- Self repairing: While it can repair its own micro stress fractures the capabilities can take days to hours depending on how damaged they become from use.
Designed based off of a chiss tractor battery and altered just enough to add a pressor beam and magnite crystals. The magnite crystals themselves are strong and able to improve the power of the tractor beam itself. Letting it easily handle objects and ships much larger then its own size to move around and bringing even smaller vessels to the field for moving around debris and ships. The effectiveness of a tractor weapon however is not exactly... well sound. It serves more as a means to disable or surprise rather then be a direct combat weapon.
Sala'dine using some of the ideas where it was documented in use has it laid out to be an anti stealth feature finding ships unable to be seen with the other weapons. It could just pull them and alert that something has been caught. The drawbacks is that the tractor beam can become a problem as a larger vessel being pulled will after several moments overtake and start pulling the one using the tractor beam or cause damage to the battery.
With the success of several improved weapons the snare battery was looked at by the engineers with methods to try and improve upon it. Enhancements were easy enough but it needed to be able to better handle the larger ships and in most cases be able to be effective against fighters on different scales... enter the newer and improved reactor and power supplies which allowed it to operate and it could be scaled to better fit on vehicles, battleframes and even stationary facilities as a massive tractor beam.
THe large overhaul allowed for improved designs and smoother transitions, the magnite crystals improving the power to make each battery like a starhawk in many cases and they would be able to use it. With more improvements they managed to keep much of it for ships and vehicles but there was also the means to scale it down to fit on starfighters and some of the more personal equipment like heavy power armor that can handle larger weapon platforms.
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