“Supernova” Plasma Cannon

Name: Supernova Cannon
Notes: For generations, the Nova cannon as originally created by the old Holy Terran Empire was long viewed as a pinnacle of destructive firepower, able to destroy large groups of ships with single shots. However, with recent discoveries and advances, the Zodiac Empire began to look into ways to potentially enhance the base design into something that could would be able to be contemporary to some other modern super-heavy weapons that could be deployed on units where the basic Nova cannon wasn't seen as enough firepower.
While the modern Nova cannon stands alongside modern siblings like that wave motion gun, no advances beyond basic hardware upgrades in the Nova line of weapons had not been developed. As such, it was decided to look into it.
For a long time, no progress was made as all they kept coming up with was next generation Nova weapons. It wasn't until it was proposed that they use gravitic technologies instead of the original electromagnetics for compression and acceleration. Computerized models suggested potential exponentially exceeding the power of even the most advanced model of Nova cannon to date.
Constructing a prototype test unit, it was towed to an otherwise worthless, mineral depleted debris field that didn't have any chunks big enough for consideration for habitation. Retreating to one light-year distance for safety, they remote triggered the device. As planned, the gravitic compression, spin induction, and acceleration all went off without a hitch. However, to their surprise, even though the pulse accidentally struck a chunk of rock dead on, the resulting area of effect blast the Nova weapon family is known for dwarfed even the largest theoretical projections they had worked out, even factoring in a better than best case scenario, by a comfortable margin.
Dubbing this new weapon the Supernova Cannon, the Zodiac Empire has begun work on designing first generation production units. In addition, they are looking into potentially fielding a test ship with the first field units of the Supernova Cannon.
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