Warp Railgun
A brutally powerful Ω Extreme-Energy-powered railgun by the Hyperion Federation. It fires its kinetic penetrator at FTL velocities close to 500 trillion times the speed of light, thus it has enough range to hit a target in neighboring galaxies. It would require a spotter to shoot at ranges further than several light-minutes, though, because it requires photons reflected off the target to track its location. Furthermore, it is considered a future weapon of the HF.
The Warp Railgun is known for its extremely large barrel that is required to provide the shell with enough energy to travel at such immense velocities.
As the railgun projectile uses Graviton Wave Refraction to propel itself through space at FTL, it behaves differently from most superluminal railguns. On impact with the target, instead of the hull of the target breaking the warp bubble and leaving the projectile to penetrate as normal, the warp bubble ignores the matter of the hull as gravity ignores it. The hull of enemy armour can enter the warp bubble and be launched with the projectile. The projectile can also cause some near-violations of the exclusion principle as well as the matter from the armour is compressed - not in a classical way - and atoms would try to end up in the same spot.
This can cause them to sometimes fuse, disrupting the integrity of the armour and causing nuclear explosions on hit. This causes the armour to become even more unstable, especially armour that is inside the warp bubble, and cause any matter in the projectile's path to weaken, further improving the armour penetration of the projectile. After reaching the inside of the target, the projectile is sometimes obliterated by very powerful nuclear explosions but also result in an antimatter release inside the interior of the enemy ship. Sometimes the projectile manages to completely penetrate through the ship and emerge from the other side in an awesome display of extremely high energy explosions.
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