Z7
A large, 4-barreled cannon turret used by the Hyperion Federation military.
The Z7 was name as such for counterespionage reasons. The turret is armed with 4 large cannons which are capable of all firing simultaneously or staged fire. They are usually used in staged fire mode. The Z7 was constructed with a role similar to that of the Annihilator Plasma Cannon, as an anti heavy weapon, but requires physical shells as ammunition rather than plasma. Although the cannon itself uses little power compared to other HF weapons, the energy and matter plasma needed to construct the shells is significant.
Due to the sheer size of the shells, the maximum rate of fire is relatively slow, the shells have a fairly low muzzle velocity (for most forms of ammunition) and firing the cannon can produce a massive amount of recoil. However it makes up for this in sheer damage and versatility. It can accept and fire many different types of ammunition, like any other conventional cannon weapon, such as quark-gluon plasma warheads (which amplify the anti-heavy capability further), photonic blast warheads, antimatter (though that is highly unethical), Negentropy warheads, ect. The weapon operates quite similar to the Graviton Cannon except it relies more an antimatter as propellant than a gravitational field. This will not make it duplicate the shell across multiple timelines but remains extremely powerful for the immense power the antimatter propellant can place on the shell.
The Z7 was designed by the Rih’kiel Remnant, by a Rih'kiel War-Engineer that required a weapon to fire one of several kinds of warheads. They understood they were going up against a target several times their size, and thus designed this weapon accordingly. The new Z7 project has earned the war-engiener a landslide victory, and a weapon so effective that the HF military adopted it for their own use. It remainsin use today, with upgrades. These have mostly improved the penetration value of the shells, although many other aspects were also upgraded. For example, current Z7s have stronger armour and can even reload faster.
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