Hexus Dominus
Abominable Intelligence
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: A powerful weapon for Contingent starships
- Image Source: In-game texture from Starsector by Fractal Softworks
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
- Co-Written By: NovelAI
- Manufacturer: Hexus Contingent
- Affiliation: Hexus Contingent
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: Hexus Pattern Heavy Pulse Laser
- Modularity: Fixed or turreted mount
- Production: Limited
- Material: Durasteel, amulite
- Classification: Laser (Wookiepedia, wikipedia)
- Size: Very Large
- Weight: Heavy
- Ammunition Type: Energy feed
- Ammunition Capacity: Very Small
- Effective Range: Battlefield
- Rate of Fire: Very High
- Damage Output: Very High
- Recoil: Low
- Capacitor array
- Light speed shots
- Capacitors: The Pulse Laser can store shots in a large capacitor array, allowing for short periods of rapid fire before recharging the capacitors individually.
- Lightspeed: The laser is not a blaster, and the directed energy function of the weapon means it requires no lead on a target. While the shots are incredibly fast moving, the weapon must still align with the target and the beams do dissipate to ineffectiveness after a certain distance.
- Power hungry: The Pulse Laser’s capacitors take a large amount of power to charge, limiting their sustained fire rate.
The Heavy Pulse Laser acts as Hexus Contingent's primary anti-capital ship, mid ranged weapon. The pulse lasers are powerful enough to devastate capital ships' shields and hull with good strike damage for their class as a turbolaser equivalent. The beam is first generated by a high efficiency, wide band emitter, before being refined and focused into a coherent beam capable of punching through shields and armor at respectable range.
However, they are highly power intensive, requiring considerable power to charge the capacitor arrays required to fire. These features make it a low endurance weapon, unlike conventional turbolasers, and instead another dedicated strike weapon that fits neatly into Hexus Contingent's warship doctrine.
