- Intent: To create a big karking gun to defend Corellia from invaders
- Image Source: Doom Eternal promotional videos; GIFs cut by me
- Canon Link: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
- Manufacturer: Corellian Confederation
- Affiliation: Corellian Confederation
- Model: Emerald Lance
- Modularity: No
Production: Semi-Unique
- Material: Various metals and alloys etc.
- Classification: Slugthrower
- Size: Extreme
- Weight: Extreme
- Ammunition Type:
Power Generator - Turbolaser Gas
- Slug
[*]Ammunition Capacity: 6
[*]
Reload Speed: Very Slow
[*]Effective Range: Extreme
[*]Rate of Fire: Very Low
[*]Stopping Power: Extreme
[*]Recoil: Extreme
SPECIAL FEATURES
- Shield Generator: Because the weapon requires such a large base beneath and around it, the Emerald Lances were equipped with military shields to defend it and the base beneath it when on alert.
- BFG: The Emerald Lance was big, loud, and could rip through vessels like nobody's business.
- Range: Most turbolaser-based weapons couldn't deal significant damage to vessels even in low orbit around a planet due to the atmosphere. The Emerald Lance's hybrid design allows it to push past these limits and strike vessels accurately as high as high orbit.
- Big Target: Unable to be moved the Emerald Lances once found could be easily target by bombardments that could deplete its shield generators and destroy the weapon itself.
- Slow Rate of Fire: The Emerald Lance had an incredibly low rate of fire do to its size of both the weapon and the projectiles it used.
- Recoil: When the weapon fires its recoil sends shockwaves powerful enough to short out civilian electronics, garble com traffic, and disrupt sensors for everyone in the area.
- Ecological Terror: Along with the shockwave a large amount of highly toxic spent blaster gas is expelled. While spent it was still able to be ignited and so use of plasma torches, tobacco, flares, blasters etc was strongly disadvized in the moments after firing, leaving the base of the weapon vulnerable to fire bombings.
- Shield Down: When fired the shield needed to be lowered to allow for the projectile to reach its intended target. Firing inside the shield could cause catastrophic damage.
- Large Capital Ships Only: Though the projectile is fairly quick, the loading, recoil, and target acquisition process is very slow meaning it can really only target large cruisers (Can only target moving vessels of 600M or more)
One of the final pieces of technology pushed into development in secret during the Sith Occupation of Corellia, the Emerald Lance was an advanced surface to space weapon capable of overloading shields and ripping through all but the toughest of starship armor of vessels as far as high orbit.
Several orders of magnitude larger than any ship-mounted turbolaser ever developed by Corellia, the weapon functioned unlike most slugthrowers. Where most slugs of modern slugthrowers emited their own energy field when fired, the slugs in use by the Emerald Lance platform not only provided their own energy field but were also propelled by the force and energy of an incredibly powerful Turbolaser. The mass associated with the projectile often caused the turbolaser shot to curve along with the trajectory of the slug, requiring precise targeting solutions often provided by a Corellian VI to avoid catastrophic misfires, friendly fire, and collateral damage. The amount of energy in each shot was so immense that the recoil could affect the electronics within 5km, confusing mass detectors, causing civilian blackouts, and garbling com units.
Designed as a defensive weapon against hostile invasion, less than 8 of these weapons were ever developed with several of them dotted across Corellia's surface and two constructed on the Twin Worlds of Talus and Tralus. Each cannon required its own base to function and were heavily fortified with garrisons and even shield generators. When the Corellian Confederation began it made a lofty promise to its people that Corellia would never again fall under external rule. Emerald Lances were one of many steps taken to fulfill that promise, and like the primitive weapon they were named for, they were the first line of defense for the growing confederation's capital planet.
