Mr. Janus
Character
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To modify existing beam cannon tech
- Image Source: Wook, SW.com
- Canon Link: Beam Cannon Turret
- Permissions: I own Treatech >: )
- Primary Source: Beam Cannon Turret, Superlaser
- Manufacturer: Treatech
- Affiliation: Treatech Holdings
- Market Status: Open-Market
- Model: PBC-8 Pulsed Beam Cannon
- Modularity: No
- Production: Mass-Produced
- Material:
- Durasteel
- Standard Beam Weapon Components
- Micro Beam Spool
- Classification: Beam Cannon, Point Defense
- Size: Average
- Weight: Heavy
- Ammunition Type: Power cell, gas cannister
- Ammunition Capacity: Average
- Effective Range: Average
- Rate of Fire: Low
- Damage Output: High
- Recoil: Low
- Focused Beams
- The PBC uses channeled micro-shafts to direct 6, gas generated lasers into one powerful beam
- Pulsed Fire
- The PBC is locked to a pulsed mode, firing beam bursts at timed intervals
- Point Defense Mode
- PBC-8s can function as point defense or dedicated weapons
- Powerful Beam
- The combination of several beams produces a powerful laser, capable of easily destroying missiles and even breaching the shields and armor of lighter vessels. Like a standard beam cannon turret, the intense heat of the PBC tends to cause fires to break out when it hits targets
- Well Rounded
- Binary tuning modes for the Micro Beam Spool allow the PBC-8 to be used as point defense and a dedicated weapons system. Because of this, PBCs can fill the role as a kind of "flex" weapon for ships that don't want to invest too heavily in one way or the other.
- Redundant Safety Mechanisms
- The PBC's internal heat-lock mean it cannot output a continues beam of energy for more than two seconds
- Fire-Charge Ratio
- For every second the PBC shoots, it needs half a second to recharge. Despite having less "downtime" than the traditional beam cannon turret, which fires for three seconds with a three second downtime, the PBC's fire rate is still capped below many other laser systems on the market
A variation of the Beam Cannon Turret, the PBC-8 increases rate of fire at the expense of overall damage output, bringing the overall aspects of the weapon to be more generalized, rather than min-maxed. Due to the nature of changes made, the PBC-8 can more easily be adapted to point defense than the standard beam cannon, which struggles at the role due to long downtimes. Of course, the tradeoff is that the overall damage of the PBC-8 is lower. A weapon that can be outfitted to all shapes and sizes of starships and vehicles, the PBC-8 makes a cheap and effective weapon that can fill multiple roles.
