Grand Shepherd Burtch
Retired old admiral
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: Create a formidable anti-missile defence turret system for capital ships, bases, and space stations.
- Image Source: The Expanse TV series, Martin Dux helped with the editing
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: permission
- Primary Source: N/A
- Manufacturer: Mandal-Elysium Arms
- Affiliation: Elysium Empire
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: Mangy Cat Defense Turret
- Modularity: no
- Production: Mass-Produced
- Material: (most materials are mined on planet Anvil)
- Classification: rapid-fire slugthrower defence turret for large structures
- Size: Large
- Weight: Heavy
- Ammunition Type: 35mm Beskar-Jacketed Slugs with Bronzium Cartridges loaded with Tibanna charge for propellant.
- Ammunition Capacity: Large
- Effective Range: Personal
- Rate of Fire: Extremely High
- Damage Output: Low
- Recoil: Average
- High Quality Servos; the finest turret servos in the Mandal-Elysium Arms Corporation, they are fast, precise, and robust.
- Fire Control Computer; the computer software and hardware on this gun turret is advanced enough to outsmart missiles and strikecraft with exceptional evasion protocols or algorithms.
- The Wall Of Projectiles; between the advanced fire control, and extreme rate of fire, evading the projectiles from this weapon is nearly impossible at short range.
- Shield Shredder; given the high volume of Beskar projectile fire that these guns put out, when at short range, they strip enemy shields extremely quickly.
- Passing Through; Although the rounds of this weapon do not detonate like tibanna or ordinance weapons, or melt systems like plasma, the 35mm Beskar-jacketed rounds are able to punch clean through any armor without making a large hole. The hole is almost never any bigger than the slug itself though. This results in minimal ballistics damage.
- Solid Physical Unguided Projectile; the ordinance from these guns is unlike fluid projectiles, like charged tibanna gas or choral skipper plasma. It is also unable to perform course corrections like guided missiles. Therefore, it is susceptible to the following deflection or redirection methods:
- Force Telekinesis: a powerful force user can block or redirect the slugs.
- Tractor Beams: if two or more ships or stations are defending against these guns, they can exchange support by sweeping their tractor beams across the line of fire for each other.
- Repulsorlifts; if a ship or station has powerful repulsors, they can use them to drive a wedge into the line of fire of these guns, reducing their effectiveness at long or medium range.
- Over-Penetration; being a slugthrower that shoots beskar-jacketed rounds, the slugs do not deform or detonate when they impact a target. Therefore they can tend to pass right through a stucture without causing significant damage along the way.
- Limited Stamina; because this is not an energy weapon, ammunition is limited. In a battle where an enemy has enough ordinance to outlast the ammunition magazines in these guns, they will eventually become essentially useless.
In light of the sudden destruction of the MandalArms Corporation, many technologies were lost, and never to be replicated again. But, thanks to the genius of the engineer, Viken Dobson, many of the old technologies were either replaced, or outright surpassed by his efforts. In the case of the new Mangy Gat Defense Turrets, they are a massive improvement over the once impressive MAI-1 Defence Turrets that were built under the old company banner.
The Mangy Cat Defense Turret is a phenomenal weapon that is designed to take advantage of the incredible Beskar deposits on Anvil. They shred missiles easily in a barrage of slugs and have limited offensive capabilities at short range. This gives the Elysium Empire an incredible advantage in a long range missile fight.
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