Approved Tech M.A.C.R.O. Cannon

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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

• Intent: Resubmit previous weapon system and consolidating submissions under The Directorate
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• Primary Source:
  Wookieepedia
  Previous Submission

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

• Manufacturer: The Directorate
• Affiliation: Closed-Market
• Model: Mass Acceleration Coil Reactive Ordinance “M.A.C.R.O.” Cannon
• Modularity: Variable Ordinance
• Production: Minor
• Material:
  • Alusteel
  • Recoil Absorption Mount
  • Tractor Beam Projector
  • Repulsor Beam Projector

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

• Classification: Very Large
• Weight: Very Heavy
• Ammunition Type: Reactive Slug
• Ammunition Capacity: Average
• Effective Range: Extreme
• Rate of Fire: Average
• Stopping Power: Extreme
• Recoil: High

SPECIAL FEATURES

• Various types of Ordnance

STRENGTHS

• Extremely powerful - The massive projectile itself delivers a starring amount of kinetic force on impact. Adding to this damage I the various types of warheads delivered by the Slug.

WEAKNESSES

• Large Weapon System - The weapon including its loader, carriage, and massive gimbal system makes it a large structure limiting it from being its installation.
  Attack Craft - No mounting options
  Corvettes - Spinal fixed arc mounts only
  Frigates - Spinal fixed arc mounts only
  Cruisers - Limited fire arc fixed mounts only
  Destroyers - Limited fire arc fixed mounts, Single weapon turrets
  Battlecruisers - Limited fire arc fixed mounts, Dual weapon turrets
  Dreadnaughts - Limited fire arc fixed mounts, Triple and Quad weapon turrets

DESCRIPTION
"Mass Acceleration Coil Reactive Ordinance" Cannon - is a powerful starship and planetary installation based weapon system. Generally mounted on starships, orbital defense platforms, and planetary based anti starship weapon installations, the MACRO cannon is a large slug launcher that uses massive electromagnetic coils to accelerate a 1000 mm projectile to six kilometers per second. The weapons massive ten-meter long slugs are moved into place by the magazine's autoloading systems then placed into a field, which is created by a tractor beam and repulsor beam, minimizing the mass of the slug and assisting the coils by keeping the slug in a state of null mass. This allows the projectile to achieve high rates of momentum with a much shorter rail system

The entire weapon is mounted on a huge carriage which is based on the Autosteady gyro-gimbal. This limited the recoil on the firing vessel or installation and kept the ship from being affected and the targeting of the system in line. The massive slugs were ejected and unguided after firing. MACRO cannons can be mounted in fixed mounts with minimum elevation or tracking or in large turrets for improved fire arc and targeting capabilities.

The weapon fires a massive 1000 mm, ten-meter long slugs which can be tipped with a variety of warheads. Each warhead utilizes a nose-mounted trigger which once impacted will begin the Slugs specific role programming. Warheads include Proton, Plasma, Ion, Cryoban, and Nagnol as standard warhead types. Additional exotic and more specialized warheads can be fired from the system as well but generally are not part of the standard loadout of the weapon.