Range: 15 Km
Damage: High
Penetration: Very High
Rate of Fire: Low
The heavy PBC is the largest operational particle beam cannon available for medium size warships.
Taking the concept of particle acceleration to its logical extreme, this heavy PBC has a high power accelerator and a nested series of accumulator rings, each energising and compressing the particle stream before passing it on to the next, more energetic ring.
The resulting bolt is faster, heavier and hits harder than anything in its class, but the power draw required to operate the weapon is correspondingly high.
Heavy PBC's are frequently used as the main gun on cruisers and other heavy warships.