Fluff Gamma Burst Party Poll 2
Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2020 1:10 pm
Due to new entries, we do a second poll. The Sandblaster won the last poll, Directed Energy Burst and Gamma Burst Shotgun went in second place.
Nobody championed entries for Burst Railgun (BR), Directed Energy Burst (DEB), and Good Ole Burst Shotgun (GOBS) so those are out. New entry is Arc Disruptor (AD). While I find Arc Disruptor a bit generic it conveys the multiple-shot idea, also I like that AD pronounced in German is the same as "ade" (a variant of adieu) which in some parts is used to say Good-bye (so a good-bye weapon )
Here comes the short fluff (better fluff always welcome):
Nobody championed entries for Burst Railgun (BR), Directed Energy Burst (DEB), and Good Ole Burst Shotgun (GOBS) so those are out. New entry is Arc Disruptor (AD). While I find Arc Disruptor a bit generic it conveys the multiple-shot idea, also I like that AD pronounced in German is the same as "ade" (a variant of adieu) which in some parts is used to say Good-bye (so a good-bye weapon )
Here comes the short fluff (better fluff always welcome):
- Arc Disruptor - Charged polaron capacitors are discharged through a positive emitter coil, and the resulting disruption flux arcs though space between several ships before returning to the negative coil. The disruption flux can be substantially deflected around ship ship shields, however.
- Gamma Burst Shotgun - A partly-chaotic release of gamma energy is able to hit multiple targets at once, doing significant damage to unshielded ships.
- Gamma Burst Slingshot - The slingshot combat system catapults multiple precharged single-use medium range gamma laser into combat range. An autonomous targeting system aims and triggers the gamma ray before point defense can take down the weapon system.
- Relativistic Sandblaster - A mass driver system accelerates a volume of sand to relativistic speed. Ships caught in the slowly expanding cloud of sand get thoroughly damaged. Shields are known to be effective at deflecting the sand particles.