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- Intent: Specialised anti-missile/starfighter weapon system for the Open Market.
- Image Source: K-292 Laser Turret Concept by Kerem Caycı
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- Primary Source: Point-Defence Cannon
- Manufacturer: The Globex Corporation
- Affiliation: Globex Security Division
- Market Status: Open-Market
- Model: GCA-12 "Stormwarden" CIWS Turret
- Modularity: Limited; can be scaled down to single-barrel or up to quadruple-barrel.
- Most frequently mounted to starships, but is compatible with ground bases and even large vehicles.
- Data-Brain may be replaced by organic alternatives for
ludditessecurity-conscious clients.
- Production: Mass-Produced
- Material: Misc. Components
- Classification: Maser Turret (CIWS)
- Size: Average
- Weight: Light
- Ammunition Type: Gas Canisters
- Ammunition Capacity: Average
- Effective Range: Point Blank
- Rate of Fire: Very High
- Damage Output: Low
- Recoil: Average
- Stormwardens sport sophisticated sensor suites which feed targeting data directly into self-learning data-brains optimised for lightning-fast reaction times. They frequently communicate with nearby turrets (the "grid") through physical data links to circumvent jamming/electronic warfare and may be permitted to open fire without organic confirmation at the discretion of a starship/base's command staff.
- Organic controllers are normally unviable given the reaction time requirements; Neurocrowns may compensate.
- Maserstorm: The Stormwarden is designed to unleash a veritable storm of low-yield bolts to overwhelm incoming craft/projectiles.
- Accuracy: The combination of precise sensors and a rapid-swivel mount affords the integrated data-brain impressive accuracy.
- Kinetic: As a maser, the Stormwarden's bolts carry enough kinetic energy to potentially interfere with an object's trajectory.
- Low Yield: Individual bolts are unimpressive; repeated hits are normally needed to down starfighters or shielded torpedoes.
- Low Range: The Stormwarden is point-defence first and only and is, by extension, pretty useless outside close-quarters battle.
The newest design to emerge from Globex's weapons development programs, the Stormwarden epitomises the idea that whoever shoots first and most often in a close-quarters engagement is likely to come out on top, achieving this by sacrificing "trivialities" like yield and range. Unsurprisingly, these weapons are horribly unsuitable for anti-capital duty, though they may overwhelm corvettes "scraping hulls" through weight of numbers.
Implications that Globex's engineers know exactly how to fool their own defences are, of course,
