Technological Terror
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a standard starfighter-grade weapon for the Helix Privateers
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- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
- Manufacturer: Helix Privateers
- Affiliation: Helix Privateers
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: 57M Spinneret
- Modularity: No
- Production: Mass-Produced
- Material: Helsteel, Helglass, X18
- Classification: Rail/Incendiary
- Size: Average
- Weight: Heavy
- Ammunition Type: Condensed X18
- Ammunition Capacity: Large
- Effective Range: Long
- Rate of Fire: Low
- Damage Output: Very High
- Recoil: High
SPECIAL FEATURES
- Excellent Range
- Toxic After-Effect
- Incendiary After-Effect
- Woodchipper: The Spinneret's range, lethality, and reliability are excellent, and are the result of similar technologies honed to perfection over time.
- Slow-Firing: While more reliable than previous generations of such weaponry, the Spinneret is in turn more restrained, and slower to fire.
A further miniaturization of Helix's battle-proven phosphor-driver technology, the 57M's method of operation is by now a well-understood one, hammered into perfection on everything from small arms to the primary weapons of capital ships.
This starship-grade model functions precisely the same as its larger and smaller brothers. Precision magnetic fields transform a mass of active X18 into a chunk of hyperdense, hyper-hot material, then launch the resultant projectile at a significant fraction of lightspeed.
Like its forbears, the 57M enjoys greatly superior range, accuracy, and terminal effect when compared with laser/particle weaponry of a similar weight class. Few are the starfighters that can withstand so violent a kinetic impact, and fewer still are those capable of resisting the thermal/radiotoxic aftershock.
Older weapons of this sort are infamous for the long-lasting, crippling health problems they can potentially inflict on living tissue, and even a glancing hit can endanger an organic pilot long after the battle is over.
As such, the 57M causes three vectors of damage in a package carriable on a starfighter.
Such is the 57M's hitting power that it can prove a danger to larger, more powerful starships in numbers, proving its versatility as a light anti-capital ship weapon. However, it simply lacks the size and energy supply to perform in this capacity as well as its larger competitors.
Out Of Character Info
Intent:
To create a standard starfighter-grade weapon for the Helix Privateers
Technical Information
Affiliation:
Helix Privateers
Modular:
No
Effective Range:
Long Range
Rate of Fire:
Automatic
Material:
Helsteel, Helglass, X18
Ammunition Type:
Condensed X18
Ammunition Capacity:
Large
Damage Output:
Very High
Recoil:
High
Ranged Class:
Other
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