Ion Cannon
Some of our cannon technology researchers decided to experiment a little further, delving into ion technology for warfare purposes. But there had been a problem encountered in that as the scale of the equipment went down, the overall power levels went down at an increasing rate, leaving a very weak cannon, and a very unimpressive missile device. This was disheartening as they wanted to one-up the current cannons in use on fighter craft. Over time and several meetings, the team areed that perhaps anti-fighter weapons are not what they are destined to excel in. So instead, they began scaling up the equipment; providing much larger ion generators, assembling much more powerful accelerator columns until eventually they had a prototype model ready for testing. The success was immediate, and the weapon's size was incredible. A brief inspection of the test target's remains brought near instantaneous approval and sale of the design to the fleet construction industry as a capital ship mounted beam weapon, providing the first ever means for disabling medium sized craft with a minimum of individual weapons fire.
| Weapon Type | |
| Class: | Beam |
| Tech Tree: | Human |
| Construction | |
| Construction Points: | 550 |
| Slots: | 2 |
| Weight: | 6 |
| Special: | n/a |
| Hull Specifications | |
| Targets: | Medium |
| Mountable: | Large |
| Attack | |
| Effective Damage: | 13-25 |
| Damage: | 63-123 |
| Rate of Fire: | 0.2 |
| Attack Rating: | 6 |
| Other: | none |
Notes:
- Hulls listed are the minimum hull size to mount/target. All weapons are mountable/targetable on/against any hull size larger than the base size. Targeting a larger hull size results in a damage penalty.
- Effective damage refers to the actual damage times the weapon's rate of fire. This is the total damage that you will do on average a turn, assuming every shot hits.
- Attack rating affects the chance you will hit the enemy ship.
- All data is given at the 3rd technology sublevel (x-3).
See also: Weapons | Beam Class Weapons | Bio Weapons | Human Weapons | Cyborg Weapons
