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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: Sniper naval cannon for future projects
- Image Source: Here
- Canon Link: N\A
- Permissions: N\A
- Primary Source: Mass-driver cannon
- Manufacturer: Black Hand Rifle Co.
- Affiliation: Black Hand Collective™
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: BH-NAV1
- Modularity: Turret & Fixed models \ Varying munitions
- Production: Minor
- Material: Durasteel
- Classification: Mass-driver cannon
- Size: Large
- Weight: Heavy
- Ammunition Type: Heavy Slugs
- Ammunition Capacity: Small
- Effective Range: Extreme
- Rate of Fire: Low
- Damage Output: High
- Recoil: Low
- "Shocklock" Ranging Laser
- Capital grade Computerized Interface Scope
- Solarium Glasteel Armored Lense
- Advanced Smartgunner chip
- Extended Range - Uses a combination of high-zoom optics, laser guidance and targeting brain to acquire lock-on from vast distances, allowing high velocity slugs, unaffected by gravity in the vacuum of space, to hit accurately from outside the range of typical battlefields. No longer is naval combat measured in Meters, but Kilometers.
- Optical Disruption - Relies on high quality optics and sensors, damage to which may impede automated functions and force vastly inferior manual operation.
The Black Hand Rifle Company Naval Cannon, designated "NAV1", was a cost efficient naval cannon initially designed for use by The Black Fleet due to their long ranged doctrine. After years of fighting single ship battles against Imperial remnants while disrupting shipping in the Mandalore Sector and Outer Rim Territories, It became apparent that the typical naval battle of the early 900 ABY period was one of close quarter engagements and intense Broadside tactics.
For such a small fleet at the time, this simply would not do. So instead, they opted to hit the enemy long before they could enter range.
The Black Fleet began retrofitting missile cruisers and new "Sniper ships" that would make use of the NAV1 cannon, using advanced optics and small but high velocity Mass-driver cannons to batter enemy defenses from outside their range. NAV1s were typically fielded in large batteries of numerous cannons complemented by cruise missiles, used in a war of attrition to steadily overwhelm shields and bite chunks out of armor in a war of attrition.
No longer would naval combat be measured in Meters, but Kilometers.
