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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
SPECIAL FEATURES
As part of Aurora Industries' Aeon Program, an upgrade for the Gnoma mass driver cannon was commissioned by the company for its next generation starships. While many of the internal systems remained the same, the design team developed two new innovations for what they began to call the Ixion Mass Driver.
The first innovation was made within the Ixion's weapon barrel. Previously, the weapon had relied upon electromagnetism through the company's Magdymium material to accelerate the projectiles with magnetic coils. The Ixion, while retaining that system, was also designed with isotope-5 centered repulsor generators that run along the length of the barrel and rails. These repulsors act as an accelerant for the projectile loaded into the Ixion and its magnetic rails, launching the projectiles at increased speeds over other mass drivers and railguns.
The second innovation was modifying the ammunition core chamber of the weapon to once again accept specially designed shells and warheads the team had been authorized to create in addition to the doonium core utilized previously that was segmented out by high powered lasers in the ammunition chamber to be a perfectly sized projectile to reach the target. However, the engineers also developed a new type of ammunition core utilizing a molten or liquified core of neuranium-doonium for a new firing loadout designed for the Ixion. This new loadout, called the Stream Loadout, releases part of the core into the weapon surrounded by a repulsor field before being launched as a semi-liquid projectile that partially hardens before impacting against a target. The stream of liquified metal smashes and scatters across the target, releasing massive amounts of kinetic force on a wide area to overwhelm and penetrate defenses easier.
- Intent: To submit a fourth-generation mass driver cannon for Aurora Industries to utilize and sell.
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- Primary Source:
- Manufacturer: Aurora Industries
- Affiliation:
- Aurora Industries
- Individuals and Factions that have purchased, licensed, or contracted the company.
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: AI-MD4 "Ixion" Mass Driver
- Modularity:
- Mass Drivers can be constructed in various styles depending on the ship and the chosen aesthetic.
- Mass Drivers can be configured into various forms such as single cannons, twin cannons, turreted, etc.
- Production: Mass-Produced
- Material:
- Ramuh-II Power Core
- Magdymium
- Dallorian Alloy
- Alusteel
- Isotope-5
- Thorilide
- Reinforced and Modified Internal Mass Driver Components
- Magnetic Coils
- Repulsorlift
- Classification: Mass Driver
- Size: Large
- Weight: Heavy
- Ammunition Type:
Specifications | Standard Loadout | Rapid-Fire Loadout | MAC Loadout | Stream Loadout |
Ammunition Capacity | Average | Average | Extremely Small | Small |
Effective Range | Long Range | Personal | Battlefield | Long Range |
Rate of Fire | Average | Very High | Very Low | Average |
Damage Output | Very High | High | Extreme | Very High |
Recoil | High | Average | Very Low | Average |
SPECIAL FEATURES
- Continuing the variable design philosophy of Aurora Industries, the Ixion Mass Driver is designed with four different firing loadouts that a gunnery crew can switch between with a toggle switch:
- The Standard Loadout utilizes the doonium slugs or specially designed shells and warheads. When in use, the computer segments out pieces of the doonium core or the shell to be fired into the rails and accelerates the projectile to speeds of roughly 45 km/s. The slugs are designed to squash when they impact against a target, transmitting the maximum amount of kinetic force possible into the target for increased damage.
- The Rapid-Fire Loadout utilizes the doonium slugs or specially designed shells and warheads. When in use, the computer segments out smaller pieces of the doonium core or slots in multiple shells into a conveyer system and launches the projectiles at a rapid pace at speeds roughly 45 km/s. The range of the weapon and the damage output are reduced when in this loadout, but the firing rate is significantly enhanced.
- The MAC Loadout utilizes the doonium slugs or liquified core. When in use, the MAC Loadout loads the entire ammunition core into the launch rails and engages thorilide shock absorbers to compensate for the recoil unleashed by launching the entire mass at a target. The core is fired at roughly 100 km/s, and when it impacts against a target, it shatters and unleashes all the kinetic force against the target in a centralized area with smaller impacts around it to overwhelm the defenses and potentially massive damage.
- The Stream Loadout utilizes and can only be used when the Ixion is loaded with the molten neuranium-doonium reservoir core. When in use, the Stream Loadout releases parts of the liquified metal core and hyper accelerates the liquified mass towards a target, achieving speeds of roughly 80 km/s. The liquified mass begins to solidify when fired, appearing almost like beam weapon, before impacting repeatedly against a target's shields and hull and splashing across it in a wider area to overwhelm defenses.
- The Ixion Mass Driver can be configured into any style aesthetic, based on the ship being constructed, and can also be configured into any layout such as single laser cannons, twin cannons, turrets, and so forth.
- The Ixion Mass Driver can switch between four different firing loadouts at the discretion of the gunnery crew by toggling through available ammunition options.
- An internal Ramuh-II Power Core allows the Ixion to be independent of a ship's reactor core, allowing gunnery crews or fighter pilots to fire the weapons even if the main reactors are sabotaged or disabled. With the upgrade from the Ramuh-II, power flow is more efficient and enables the necessary power needs for the various fire loadouts of the Ixion.
- The Ixion Mass Driver makes uses of the company's patented material of Magdymium combined with repulsor technology and the increased power output and efficiency of the Ramuh-II Power Core to vastly improve the speed of the launched projectiles over its predecessor.
- If the preservation field capsule fails or the device is sabotaged within the Ramuh-II core, the crystal within sublimated immediately into its plasma state, reducing the power output of the device by roughly half until a new crystal capsule is installed. This reduces the rate of fire of all the mass driver's firing loadouts by one stage.
- When MAC Loadout is used, and the shot is fired, the firing crew needs to replace the entire core within the weapon and it cannot be fired until this procedure is done. This may take several moments to do, time during a pitched battle that could be pivotal.
- If the weapon's ammunition core chamber is sabotaged in some way, the core will like smash through the bottom of the weapon due to its density and will render the weapon inoperable until it can be repaired.
As part of Aurora Industries' Aeon Program, an upgrade for the Gnoma mass driver cannon was commissioned by the company for its next generation starships. While many of the internal systems remained the same, the design team developed two new innovations for what they began to call the Ixion Mass Driver.
The first innovation was made within the Ixion's weapon barrel. Previously, the weapon had relied upon electromagnetism through the company's Magdymium material to accelerate the projectiles with magnetic coils. The Ixion, while retaining that system, was also designed with isotope-5 centered repulsor generators that run along the length of the barrel and rails. These repulsors act as an accelerant for the projectile loaded into the Ixion and its magnetic rails, launching the projectiles at increased speeds over other mass drivers and railguns.
The second innovation was modifying the ammunition core chamber of the weapon to once again accept specially designed shells and warheads the team had been authorized to create in addition to the doonium core utilized previously that was segmented out by high powered lasers in the ammunition chamber to be a perfectly sized projectile to reach the target. However, the engineers also developed a new type of ammunition core utilizing a molten or liquified core of neuranium-doonium for a new firing loadout designed for the Ixion. This new loadout, called the Stream Loadout, releases part of the core into the weapon surrounded by a repulsor field before being launched as a semi-liquid projectile that partially hardens before impacting against a target. The stream of liquified metal smashes and scatters across the target, releasing massive amounts of kinetic force on a wide area to overwhelm and penetrate defenses easier.
