Chris Walker
Killed by BotM
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: Allow warships to engage in glorious melee combat
- Image Source: Dreadnought - Open Beta Trailer (Greybox)
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: Plasma torch, Ramming
- Manufacturer: Arms Dynamics
- Affiliation: Arms Dynamics and The Nothmiro Federation
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: Arms Dynamics Plasma Ram
- Modularity: Mounted ship
- Production: Limited
- Material: Durasteel, plasteel, plastoid, quadranium
- Classification: Plasma weapon
- Size: Large
- Weight: Heavy
- Ammunition Type: Plasma gas, power feed
- Ammunition Capacity: Average
- Effective Range: Point Blank - Can only be used effectively when activated at a very short range before ramming.
- Rate of Fire: Average - Can be active for 5-10 seconds with a recharge time of a few minutes.
- Damage Output: Extreme
- Recoil: None
- Generates a plasma envelope in front of a warship for the purposes of ramming maneuvers
- Uppercut: The plasma ram can punch through the deflector shielding of many capital ships, before splitting open its armour and carving through internal bulkheads. If a ship is unlucky enough to have its shields already depleted by the time a ramship gets into position the weapon may simply bisect it.
- Flashpoint: When active the ram may destroy or disrupt any munitions that strike it, providing frontal defense to a charging ramship.
- Unwieldy: The plasma ram is a forwards facing, fixed weapon. The entire ship must line up with the target in order to do damage.
- Ram: The weapon has an extremely short range, and the plasma field is projected mere meters in front of the ship using it.
The Arms Dynamics Plasma Ram is a weapon created to give Nothmiro Peacekeeper Corps light cruisers the ability to punch far above their weight class in close-in capital warship combat. The ram utilizes design components of tools such as plasma torches to project an envelope of focussed high-energy plasma capable of punching through some of the best armored capital warships in the galaxy. Even if the ram does not fully bisect the enemy warship or smash through a portion, the design ensures the ramming light cruiser will not become stuck in the gap it has created or damaged by the debris it creates.
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