Arline Kley
PIE Inc.
Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
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Posted - 2012.10.25 13:13:00 -
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Madlax Nodos wrote:we have tachyon beam lasers
any chance we could get tachyon pulse lasers as well
I've been thinking about this for a long damned while - we couldn't make the Tachyon's range better than the mega pulses becuase everyone would fit it - high damage, rapid ROF and long range? Never change my fit again!! - However what about the converse? In manageing to create Tachyons in ultra short time it has the opposite effect and turns the weapon into and extremely short range weapon?
Tachyon Pulse Laser (TPL)
Amarrian Scientists have been working for years to re-create the power of the Tachyon Beam Laser into a Pulse weapons system. Most attempts ended in failure (of both the machines and the scientists), but in YC113 a stable design was finally produced.
Creating tachyons at an incredible rate the scientists were jubilant that they had succeded. However, on the firing ranges the weapons range was far below what was expected - infact several military planners attempted to scrap the plans altogether. It was only after a long period of development that the weapon was finally perfected; the range was far shorter than initially envisioned, only a mere 15kilometres with a "standard" crystal in the focusing array, but with the awesome power that the tachyons could produce this "problem" was overlooked.
Powergrid - 3250
CPU - 75tf
Cap - 75Gj
Rate of Fire - 9 seconds
Damage Mod - 4.5x
Range - 15km
Falloff - 6km
Tracking - 0.0275 rad/sec
The limited range on this so that is the gives the laser boats a ultra-short range weapon - the Mega Pulse is generally used in a long range role anyway (with excess of 100km's easily acheiveable) and the Dual Heavy slotting in the middle ground and useful against smaller ships (with its better tracking) the TPL is there to smash the enemies ship to dust at extreme close range.
Using my "monkey-maths" on a standard BS (with no range bonus) the TPL's can realistically achieve a maximum range of 30 kloms with Radio Crystals (24 optimal + 6 fall off) or have as short as 13.5 (7.5 optimal + 6 fall off) with Conflag/MF. Even with a pair of TC's +range scripts the TPL's range doesn't get beyond 40kms. On the Apocalypse, the range bonus pushes it out to around the 60km's range with two TCs + range scripts- however, given the thirst for PG/Cap of the TPL's unless you rig them, the ship wont be able to support a full 8 rack.
Thoughts?
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