Request for (improved) icon for SR_FLUX_LANCE

[Ophiuchus]

edit1: i made a basic version by remixing death spores, better art would be appreciated

Request for the artistic people around here for the icon of a new weapon:

The Spatial Flux Lance, a internally mounted short-ranged ship weapon. Cheap to produce, but does only small amount of damage. (4PP 6damage, as cost effective as mass driver-3)

The Spatial Flux Lance generator creates a short-lived spatial distortion in proximity outside the ship. The distortion is deadly to fighters and a nuisance for armoured ships. Multiple generators interfere with each other so only a single Flux Lance part may effectively mounted on a ship.

A Flux Lance can inflict structural damage to ships starting from combat round 3 as the targets are too far away in earlier rounds. The Flux Lance starts to destroy fighters when they come in range in combat round 2.

The weapon's damage is a combination of the shot damage and any active modifiers. Piloting trait does not affect damage. Charging military policy allows to attack a round earlier.


I imagine something like a spear-head/water-drop shaped nozzle - similar to that of the death spores. So starting disconnected from the border with a circle-shape and extending while getting narrower and maybe stop at 3/4 of the picture (to indicate short range). It should look like a energy field somehow, it could also have "hole" on the broader side.

As for the generator/weapon part I think there are no restrictions. One could e.g. reuse the graviton pulse icon.

[Ophiuchus]

i blender-gimped something based on the death spores
open under the usual CC license