Casteban Mecetti
(Biot)
RBC-300 'Porcupine' Retractable Point-Defense Heavy Blaster Cannon
- Intent: Create a heavy retractable blaster cannon offering from the House Mecetti Nationalized Industries
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- Canon Link: Two similar canon entries:
- Permissions: NA
- Primary Source: NA
- Manufacturer: House Mecetti Nationalized Industries
- Affiliation: House Mecetti Nationalized Industries
- Market Status: Open Market
- Model: PRBC-300 'Porcupine' Retractable Point-Defense Heavy Blaster Cannon
- Modularity: No
- Production: Limited
- Material: Durasteel, Blaster Components
- Classification: Blaster
- Size: Large
- Weight: Very Heavy (One Metric Ton)
- Ammunition Type: Building or Shipboard power supply, Large 60 pound Gas Canister installed in Building or Ship where gun is installed
- Ammunition Capacity: Extremely Large (10,000 shots per gas canister)
- Effective Range: Average
- Rate of Fire: Very High (100 shots per second
- Damage Output: High
- Recoil: High (Must be installed on building or vehicle weighing at least 10 tons to avoid adverse recoil effects.)
- Weapon retracts into a Sensor-Shielded Compartment
- Guns can operate as a point-defense-system
- Targeting Computer
- Droid Brain can be activated for automatic operation.
- Targeting Sensor
- Network allows units to coordinate with each other and with tactical officer
- Friend-or-Foe Transciever discriminates between friendly/unfriendly targets
- When retracted, weapon is difficult to detect.
- Has computer and droid brain that can use targeting sensors to target inbound threats and fire automatically.
- Can coordinate with other cannons via messaging network to achieve best attack patterns and target selection on inbound threats
- High Damage, Very High rate of fire is likely to destroy inbound torpedoes, bombs, missiles, and even starfighters.
- Despite their High Damage Output, Blaster Cannons are unsuitable for damaging anything larger than a Starfighter or light freighter.
- Can't engage Distant targets.
- Large, Heavy Units with large gas canisters and sensor-shielded compartments use up about 1.5 tons of vehicle/ship cargo space per unit.)
- High Recoil will adversely impact any ship or structure with less than 10 tons of mass.
The House Mecetti Nationalized Industries enters the Point-Defense market with the PRBC-300, their largest of three planned point-defense systems. Designed to be installed on buildings and ships larger than Starfighters, they lack the long-range capability which most shipboard weapons have. This is because their role is to defend against inbound ordinance and strafing starfighters, not to attack enemy vessels.
In the role of defense, the PRBC-300 reigns supreme. A very high rate of fire ensures that a cloud of blaster bolts greets every inbound threat, and a high damage output ensures those threats are obliterated. The weapons are also retractable, so that a well-defended ship need not appear to be a well-armed ship. This is vital in civilian-adjacent activities and even full on military activities where an offensive posture is not always desirable.
Should you purchase multiple cannons, they can network with each other to divide the sky or starscape into defense zones, ensuring that no two cannons waste fire on the same targets. This enables the sorts of defensive fire efficiency that ensures no threat is missed, and no shots are wasted.
If your enemies have squadrons of fighters or swarms of missiles, the PRBC-300 is the right defense solution for you.
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