Galinha

The Galinha is a fast-firing 12mm railgun classified as a Laser weapon, mounted on the Auxiliary hardpoint.
== Acquisitions Entry ==
The original spec for the Galinha called for a scaled down version of the Zeus, but early development showed the idea was impracticable. That process however led the Design Bureau to an idea for a radically different weapon.Unwilling to risk the War Council turning down their proposal, the lead engineers falsified successful testing rounds for the Zeus variant while racing to develop their own concept in secret. When a surprise inspection revealed the deceit, the Council slated the entire Bureau staff for "rotation" and threatened the Bureau chief with a sedition charge, but all that was changed to a mild reprimand once the new weapon actually hit field testing.The Galinha is named for the relentless cyclic rate of the gun, unparalleled for a Lorentz-type weapon. While still high maintenance, it doesn't suffer the fouling issues endemic to propellant based munitions and its conductive rails are small enough to be field swapped. Frankly the War Council was so fixated on the existing implementation of their darling Zeus that without the ruse I don't think the Galinha variant would ever have been greenlit. Of course that didn't stop the Council from taking full credit for the weapon's inception once it was deployed.
-Efi
== Trivia ==
* "Galinha" is Portuguese for "hen"
Category:Auxiliary Weapons
Category:Laser Weapons
Category:Weapons