Assault Cannon

Range: 12 km
Damage: High
Penetration: Moderate
Rate of Fire: High





The assault cannon is a huge multi-barrel particle beam cannon that has several accelerator barrels, allowing it to fire either short bursts or a continuous stream of high-energy bolts. The power and particle draw is very high, so most medium size ships can't run an assault cannon straight off the main collider ring.

To overcome this the Assault cannon uses a small dedicated collider ring to generate the power and particle stream needed to operate the assault cannon. This takes up a lot of internal space, but it makes the cannon virtually a self-contained weapon.

This model is frequently the main armament of Destroyers and similar size ships, though some Cruisers are fitted with banks of them so they can engage multiple smaller ships.



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