Joran Greth
Grand Moff
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Intent: To develop a main battery weapon for destroyer sized ships of The Imperium
Development Thread: Hammer of the Gods
Manufacturer: Aurora Industries
Model: NMC -1 Mjolnir (Neutron Matter Cannon)
Affiliation: Aurora Industries Select Customers (Must have Contract Thread to purchase)
Modularity: Star Ship Mointing (Single, Dual and quad prow mounted and single turret mounted)
Production: Limited (Vessels of Limited or Less Production only)
Material: Ostrine, Agrinium , Durasteel
Classification: Neutron Matter Cannon
Size: Destroyers and above.
Length: 100 meters
Weight: 250 metric tons weapons 10,000 metric tons for the reactor
Ammunition Type: Energy
Ammunition Capacity: Unlimited (Dedicated matter/antimatter annihilator reactor)
Effective Range: 50,000 km
Rate of Fire: Once every 1.25 minutes
Special Features:
Variable Axial Mounts
Single Turret Mount
Strengths:
Massive damage potential
Weakness:
Slow Recharge time
Destroyer and above vessels only
Max of 2 cannons per 1,000 meters
Description:
The NMC -1 Mjolnir creates organized forms of energy controlled by a light constant beam, which collapse into pairs of neutrons upon encountering other matter. Effectively, pairs of neutrons are created temporarily traveling at the speed of light for just a few picoseconds. once the energy is converted into matter travelling at the speed of light it effectively has infinite momentum and therefore infinite mass. Time dilation by the speed of the beam effects the Neutronic pairs now converted into matter increasing the effective mass infinitely. This yields several micrograms of neutron matter impacting against shielding or starship armor at light speed with the equivalent force of several hundred billion teragrams of neutron star matter. The effective over all yield of the beam is generally in the area of 350 terrawatts or 350 terrajoules per second giving a single muzzle mounted weapon system the equivalent of 150 turbolasers.
The high velocity short burst beam has an effective range of 50,000 km or roughly that of a heavy turbolaser range. Any further and the field breaks down and the neutron pairs disperse harmlessly. The beam is also unable to penetrate atmospheres where the neutrons disperse into ions when effected by the polarization of a planets atmosphere. Because of this these can not be used as weapons for planetary vehicles or anti-orbital weapons.
A dedicated Matter/anti-matter annihilation reactor is used to power up to two of these weapon systems. The sheer size of the reactors makes limits the number of NMC -1 Mjolnir cannons mountable on a star ship to two cannons per one thousand meters. The Weapon system will see testing and deployment on the new Overlord-class star destroyer being developed by the engineering team of The Imperium.
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