Graviton Cannon
Cannon that may at first seem primitive compared to the rest of the advanced technology of the Hyperion Federation. It has the advantage of allowing many different ammo types to be used. Ammo is not stored on ship but fabricated using Replicators and matter plasma.
Despite its primitive appearance, it is extremely powerful and high tech. A very small antimatter charge is used as propellant, and gravity is refracted down the barrel in a way that gives the round an immense velocity which makes it exceptionally powerful on the battlefield. The latter of these effects is where it got the name graviton cannon from. Additionally, it travels into a time displacement field which causes the round to separate into several timelines so that it is not possible to predict its exact location or velocity. This causes it to become a wavefunction of multiple different positions so it can be anywhere within the general area. Each location corresponds to a separate timeline. All rounds collide with the enemy armour at very slightly different times, but the total energies of all collisions merge into a single collision, releasing an immense quantity of energy and creating fragments within the interior which ricochet rapidly.
The concept was first imagined by a Troznux. The Graviton Cannon can make use of many different kinds of warheads. It has a similar variety as the Photon Missile, allowing it to use photonic warheads, quark-gluon plasma warheads, QCD Matter Warhead, Negentropy warheads, antimatter warheads, Nanobot warheads, ect. These each have different roles and different ways of causing damage. Graviton Cannon is one of the primary projectile weapons used by the HF due to its versatility and sheer power. They also have a highly reliable reputation, like most technologies of the HF.
The Graviton Cannon is feared by many other faction armed forces units for several reasons. It is able to penetrate all but extremely strong armour by using armour piercing ammo types (the HF can achieve immense penetration values due to the use of advanced technology. For example, neutron QCD Matter warheads). It can also engage from much longer ranges than almost all other cannon designs due to its sheer accuracy and velocity. They have seen popular use against the first and second HF-HM wars in particular. In these wars, the HF can more easily fight the adaptation abilities of most HEX Mainframe (HM) starships by making it quite unpredictable which round the Graviton will fire. This will overwhelm their adaptation abilities as the HM starship attempts to adapt to everything, which makes their armour far weaker. If this is continued effectively, the HF can destroy entire battlegroups of HM starships which can do little to retaliate against a strategy such as this. Since this, other factions have adopted similar weapons despite cannons being seemingly rendered obsolete.
The concept was first imagined by a Troznux. The Graviton Cannon can make use of many different kinds of warheads. It has a similar variety as the Photon Missile, allowing it to use photonic warheads, quark-gluon plasma warheads, QCD Matter Warhead, Negentropy warheads, antimatter warheads, Nanobot warheads, ect. These each have different roles and different ways of causing damage. Graviton Cannon is one of the primary projectile weapons used by the HF due to its versatility and sheer power. They also have a highly reliable reputation, like most technologies of the HF.
The Graviton Cannon is feared by many other faction armed forces units for several reasons. It is able to penetrate all but extremely strong armour by using armour piercing ammo types (the HF can achieve immense penetration values due to the use of advanced technology. For example, neutron QCD Matter warheads). It can also engage from much longer ranges than almost all other cannon designs due to its sheer accuracy and velocity. They have seen popular use against the first and second HF-HM wars in particular. In these wars, the HF can more easily fight the adaptation abilities of most HEX Mainframe (HM) starships by making it quite unpredictable which round the Graviton will fire. This will overwhelm their adaptation abilities as the HM starship attempts to adapt to everything, which makes their armour far weaker. If this is continued effectively, the HF can destroy entire battlegroups of HM starships which can do little to retaliate against a strategy such as this. Since this, other factions have adopted similar weapons despite cannons being seemingly rendered obsolete.
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