K44 "Picket" Point Defense Cannon

The K44 “Picket” Point Defense Cannon was a Close In Weapon System developed and manufactured by Avarkan Industries. The K44 was specifically created as an anti-missile system to combat concussion missile and proton torpedo attacks against a starship or space station. 
Somewhat effective against projectile attack, the K44 was also utilized as a effective anti-stafighter weapon aboard larger vessels, preventing enemy starfighters from closing to point-blank range to avoid the ship’s larger, offensive weapons. 
The K44 was automated by a limited droid brain which was fed sensor data from the ship’s main sensors, allowing it to track and plot incoming ordinances against it’s home vessel. On larger, capital-scale vessels, the K44 was often combined with two or three units that could cover a single fire arc. A cooldown period was nessecary for individual units due to the firing that occurred during operation. The K44 flooded an area roughly twenty meters by twenty meters with rapid-fire energy lances in an attempt to destroy incoming projectiles prior to impact with the “home” ship. Due to this, each unit needed to be reset and cooled after each firing cycle. The limitation of the droid brain also caused some owners to convert them to manned gunnery stations onboard capital ships. 
Some owners of these units found them to be useful against enemy starfighters also. A common tactic for starfighter pilots was to hiding under the slow rotation or limited azimuth swivel/pivot. 
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