Transition MAW

Rare and elusive type of altertech, sometimes found among ruins of the most powerful civilizations behind the jump gates. Extremely deadly – even when small caliber – and very costly, since it needs both astounding ammounts of power and a special ammunition that is an altertech on its own.
Transmams use technology similar to transition drives and engines, which can be practically summed up to teleportation. They are designed to literally 'teleport' their rounds into insides of the enemy ships, causing devastating damage. They, of course, aren't a perfect machine of destruction, since it still needs to be fired more or less on the collision course with target ship, with the transition drive – somehow loaded in the barrel – firing out in a distance of ~300 000km, immediately teleporting round into target.
With the transition destabilized by passing through solid matter, it very rarely is capable of breaching the armour, especially of capital ship grade. However the appearance of the rounds inside armour causes it to stretch, which is made even more serious by being armed with explosives, acid or nanite deconstructors (or even nuclear warheads in medium calibre ammunition) that then detonates. Causing impressive weaknesses to even strongest armours, making much easier to pierce by other weapons.


Their extremely rare high calibre variants are all armed with nuclear ammunition of extreme level of complication and rarity that is somehow capable of phasing through battleship-level armour and detonating inside, being capable of practical instakills of even largest units. Problem being its extreme rarity and low accuracy.

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