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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Tenleth electro-thermal ignition technology was developed by the League of Sanctified Steel between 443 ABY to 458 ABY after pilfering some technology demonstrators from a military lab on an abandoned space station in the wake of the Gulag Plague, the team was led by a Sephi engineer named "Tenleth" for whom it is named. The technology's development was started after the Order of Reclamation projected that solid-propellant and gunpowder firearms and slugthrowers were going to be inadequate at damaging or penetrating armor technology deployed in the future so that a method of new ignition and higher-density propellants would be required. Unlike normal projectile weapons such as slugthrowers or firearms, a Tenleth electro-thermal cannon for example uses a plasma-based cartridge to ignite and control the ammunition's propellant relying on an electric charge to vaporize the cartridge, this allows for a much more controlled ignition process.
Electro-thermal cannons or weapon systems utilizing the principles of Tenleth electro-thermal ignition technology are more powerful and efficient when compared to those relying on archaic percussion and solid-propellant charges. Firstly, it significantly reduced the effect temperature has on the rate of propellant's expansion and makes it possible for the implementation of more advanced high-density propellants safely with a reduction in and more predictable amount of pressure being placed on the barrel of a weapon system upon firing in comparison to other similar technology with a similar amount of muzzle energy given that the design and function of the technology disperses the propellant gas much more smoothly and uniformly inside the firing chamber lending to greater accuracy and energy retention for the projectile.
One of the technology's disadvantages or undesirable effects when compared to traditional firearms and slugthrowers with their comparatively simple and primitive method of propulsion is that Tenleth electro-thermal ignition technology relies on plasma which when vaporized into a plasma gas which more often than not emits highly energized alpha and beta radiation particles which contaminates the propellant and poses a significant occupational health and safety hazard in that inhalation of the vaporized propellant could result in an organic operator contracting acute radiation syndrome if the quantity is high enough making it dangerous for any operator to operate such a weapon without comprehensive respiratory system protection. Secondly it is possible for physical contact with the beta irradiated propellant could resist in burn-related injuries.
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: Create the propulsion technology developed and manufactured by the League of Sanctified Steel used in their kinetic weapons such as cannons, artillery, close-in-weapons and anti-material weapons carried by infantry.
- Image Source: N/A
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: None
- Primary Source: Mass-driver cannon, electro-thermal cannon (wikipedia).
- Manufacturer: League of Sanctified Steel
- Manufactured: 459 ABY-Current
- Designed: 443-458 ABY
- Designer: League of Sanctified Steel
- Affiliation: Closed-market (Controlled technology)
- Model: Tenleth electro-thermal propulsion technology
- Modularity: Yes (application)
- Production: Mass-Produced
- Material: electricity, battery, high-density propellant.
- Primary storage
- Secondary storage
- Pulse-forming network
- Firing switch
- plasma cartridge
- propellant
- projectile
- Electro-thermal ignition: Tenleth electro-thermal propulsion technology is a superior ignition method for propellants in the application of kinetic weapons, additionally electro-thermal ignition can be used for combusting high-density propellants into a plasma which expands more uniformly and creates an equal amount of pressure in the combustion chamber and reduces the effect of temperature on the advanced high-density propellant. Additionally in the application of a cannon it reduces the pressure placed on barrel drastically increasing barrel life in comparison to alternative methods of acceleration that offer the same muzzle energy given the fact that it helps spread the propellant's gas much more smoothly during ignition. Muzzle velocities on projectiles leaving the barrel can reach 2,500 meters per second.
- Power reliance: Unlike conventional mechanical ignition technology which generally functions as an advanced form of percussion strike such as a firing pin striking the primer of a projectile cartridge Tenleth electro-thermal ignition technology is reliant on an electric current to ignite the more advanced and dense propellants into a plasma, without power this is impossible and this creates a flaw in that cannons for example operating under the principles of this technology won't function without a power source.
- Occupational hazards: There come some occupational and health hazards from operating the technology particularly for organics when the plasma cartridge ignites it releases a significant amount of energy and radioactively contaminates the propellant with significant amounts of alpha and beta energy. If particles of the propellant are inhaled which is almost unavoidable if operating close to a weapon using the technology unshielded there exists the potential for respiratory-tract radiation burns, burns to exposed skin and for the ionizing radiation to induce symptoms of acute radiation syndrome depending on the total cumulative dosage received over an hour. Standard precautions to avoid this would include wearing a full-face respirator with filters rated for radiological threats and wearing a membrane over the whole body to prevent contact between skin and irradiated propellant.
Tenleth electro-thermal ignition technology was developed by the League of Sanctified Steel between 443 ABY to 458 ABY after pilfering some technology demonstrators from a military lab on an abandoned space station in the wake of the Gulag Plague, the team was led by a Sephi engineer named "Tenleth" for whom it is named. The technology's development was started after the Order of Reclamation projected that solid-propellant and gunpowder firearms and slugthrowers were going to be inadequate at damaging or penetrating armor technology deployed in the future so that a method of new ignition and higher-density propellants would be required. Unlike normal projectile weapons such as slugthrowers or firearms, a Tenleth electro-thermal cannon for example uses a plasma-based cartridge to ignite and control the ammunition's propellant relying on an electric charge to vaporize the cartridge, this allows for a much more controlled ignition process.
Electro-thermal cannons or weapon systems utilizing the principles of Tenleth electro-thermal ignition technology are more powerful and efficient when compared to those relying on archaic percussion and solid-propellant charges. Firstly, it significantly reduced the effect temperature has on the rate of propellant's expansion and makes it possible for the implementation of more advanced high-density propellants safely with a reduction in and more predictable amount of pressure being placed on the barrel of a weapon system upon firing in comparison to other similar technology with a similar amount of muzzle energy given that the design and function of the technology disperses the propellant gas much more smoothly and uniformly inside the firing chamber lending to greater accuracy and energy retention for the projectile.
One of the technology's disadvantages or undesirable effects when compared to traditional firearms and slugthrowers with their comparatively simple and primitive method of propulsion is that Tenleth electro-thermal ignition technology relies on plasma which when vaporized into a plasma gas which more often than not emits highly energized alpha and beta radiation particles which contaminates the propellant and poses a significant occupational health and safety hazard in that inhalation of the vaporized propellant could result in an organic operator contracting acute radiation syndrome if the quantity is high enough making it dangerous for any operator to operate such a weapon without comprehensive respiratory system protection. Secondly it is possible for physical contact with the beta irradiated propellant could resist in burn-related injuries.
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