Solomani Confederation (Military)

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Confederation Navy: Meson Weapon Systems

L. Of course, the first model would be the budget variant.

M. The choice was between inflation, inefficiency, or inaccuracy.

N. Changing volume, in either direction, would tend to complicate modularization, so might not want to mess with that.

O. Inaccuracy tends to matter if it's a question of who hits first.

P. So, inefficiency, it is.

 

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Confederation Navy: Meson Weapon Systems

Q. Modularity, because you might want to switch the weapon system to something else.

R. And the one thing that would put the kibosh on that is if they didn't fit the slot.

S. So, screwing around with the volume must provide some significant advantage.

T. I'd say the only reason you'd choose deflation, would be if the weapon platform itself had some form of size constraint.

U. And at twenty percent inflation, you'd have to customize the bay itself larger.

 

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Confederation Navy: Meson Weapon Systems

V. Exact dimensions tend be somewhat nebulous.

W. But we'll assume that bay and turret weapon systems are specifically arranged to fit a standardized turret or bay.

X. It's also a reason that Vehicles seemed off, when installing spacecraft weapon systems.

Y. For anything smaller than four hundred spaces, you could only install one monoturret.

Z. Or, at two hundred eighty spaces, a barbette.

 

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Confederation Navy: Meson Weapon Systems

1. For the Confederation Army, bayed weapon systems would likely be defined as siege artillery.

2. They'll certainly want meson weapons for fire support.

3. Atmospheric interference would restrict the range of other weapon systems.

4. Restricted access to meson weapon systems, and their relatively large size, would likely need a cooperative Navy.

5. I tend to think that the Confederation Navy isn't keen to tie down their major units to a single planet.

6. Post bellum, I'll say that they outsource this to the CAVALRY, and their Horse Artillery squadrons.

7. They can station monitors, satellites, space stations, and/or coastal battleships, to support the ground forces, and man them with short term troopers.

8. These troopers could be recruited from retired naval personnel, or others with spacefaring experience.

9. It would prevent Confederation Navy units from being pinned.

 

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Confederation Navy: Meson Weapon Systems

A. One and three quarter, times a quarter, times one eighth, hectometres.

B. Forty eight kilotonnes, translates to 3'428.571428571429 tonnes.

C. Submarine weapon platform.

D. In this case, Typhoon class dimensions.

E. Looks like you could fit a large bay weapon, inside.

F. You'll need the fuel tanks for ballast tanks.

 

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Confederation Navy: Meson Weapon Systems

G. Actually, since mesons can ghost through solid walls, you could leave them deep inside the hull.

H. Like a concealed manoeuvre drive.

I. Which would make them more protected against surface damage.

J. It would act as a surprise, if you can't detect obvious signs of a weapon system powering up.

K. One issue being that you could use that bay for a non meson weapon system.

 

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Confederation Navy: Meson Weapon Systems

L. Internal bays resolves a concept I was theorizing.

M. I wanted to place cope cages around a starwarship.

N. You'd have to penetrate that first layer of hull armour, before reaching the primary hull.

O. One problem would be that the cope cage would block the starwarship's armaments.

P. But, if you can ghost particles through them, that would no longer apply.

 

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Confederation Navy: Meson Weapon Systems

Q. You could have a docking clamp installed on the nose of the starwarship.

R. Then attach a large piece of hull armour to it.

S. Point towards a suitable target, and drift towards it.

T. Fire the meson guns at the target, through the attached hull armour.

U. The attached hull armour acts as a shield against non meson return fire.

 

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Confederation Navy: Meson Weapon Systems

V. Doesn't necessarily just have to be just a solid piece of metal.

W. Though, ramming now does seem a viable, survivable, manoeuvre.

X. You can set up sensors and point defence weapon systems in front, to deal with oncoming missiles and torpedoes.

Y. Something heavier, for smallcraft.

Z. And, missile and torpedo launchers.

 

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Confederation Navy: Meson Weapon Systems

1. One issue might be, the other side has the same idea.

2. They, too, dock a hull shield in front of their starwarship.

3. In terms of line of sight, you can't see what's behind it.

4. Aiming most other energy weapon systems at it, will hit the shield first.

5. However, I would suppose you would need a pretty good idea where a target is, for one that teleports that damage potential.

6. Especially, a rapidly moving target.

7. If it wasn't indirect fire before, it is now.

8. You could, of course, have forward probes that flanked the enemy, and use their sensors for targetting.

9. Which is where prediction programmes come in, since latency will have to account for change in location, in how far your target moves in metres per (micro)second.

 

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Confederation Navy: Meson Weapon Systems

A. I don't know if you could describe the hull shield as a pod.

B. I tend to think that for High Guard, a pod would be somewhat integrated with the primary hull.

C. A docking clamp makes that twice removed from the primary hull.

D. Unless special electronic linkages are made, the shield hull is pretty much autonomous.

E. The upside is, once it's been widely perforated, you can drop it.

F. Downside, it's volume lowers performance.

 

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Confederation Navy: Meson Weapon Systems

G. The spinal mount has so much damage potential, it's meant to just smash it's way in.

H. Optionally, you could go for the broadside gambit.

I. Much like in times of yore, your starwarships parallel the manoeuvres of the enemy's starwarships of the line, and fire the secondaries.

J. For meson bays, the intent is not to smash in the sidewalls, but explode inside the enemy vessel.

K. While machinery is going to be destroyed, the real effect would be spread out evenly throughout the ship, especially the radiation side effect.