Tech: Concave Dish Composite Beam Superlaser

Concave Dish Composite Beam Superlaser
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Description
The Concave Dish Composite Beam Superlaser is a very powerful directed energy superweapon.
The Concave Dish Composite Beam Superlaser has eight or more tributary beams arranged in a circle around the concave dish. These tributary beams would then combine to form the main "superlaser" by the usage of an gravitic field in the shape of a cone. The eight tributary beams were themselves composed of eight smaller beams, which converged in one of the eight Superlaser Convergence Chambers, totaling 64 heavy beam tubes.
The superlaser is composed of several exotic matter beams accelerated and amplified by gigantic focusing magnetic lenses and coils, producing a single powerful beam. Unlike turbolasers, it pulled energy from a massive hypermatter core, converting the energy present in hyperspace/subspace into highly unstable particles that were tremendously destructive in normal space. The energy delivered into a target was so great that it could cause the target's atoms to split into matter-antimatter pairs and annihilate themselves, generating a powerful surge capable of rupturing the barrier between normal space and hyperspace/subspace.
As any powered weapon, it drained the amount of energy required to use, resulting in different energy outputs. The superlaser, for example, could destroy any capital ship with less than 10 percent power, crack a planet open to the core with two 30 percent shots and blow it to pieces with a full-charged fire. In such cases, the amount of energy involved was so great it would generate miniscule space-time singularities, sending part of the target's mass into hyperspace/subspace and generating a massive shockwave from high-energy tachyons from hyperspace/subspace. Due its focusing lenses and beam intensity, the energy wasted was extremely low, leading to a very long shooting range.
Game Notes
Allows Concave Dish Composite Beam Superlaser Starship Component to be added to Starship designs.
Category:Directed-Energy Weapon Technology
Category:Super Weapon Technology
Category:Weapon Technology
Category:Starship Weapon Technology
Category:Technology