AP-FILE #6317: PROJECT "BALLISTA"

[Tenacity]

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Source: APM Research Vessel Ailuros
Comm ID: Overseer Damien Mekal
Encryption: APM Standard

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Analysis of the Leonine's combat performance utilizing the generation-1 prototype blasters has been completed. The initial pair of prototypes had to be dismantled for examination, so I'm requisitioning a new pair of blasters - this time with more resilient materials and improved heat sinks as per feedback from the Leonine's gunnery officers - to replace them.

Additionally, the issue of limited range with the generation-1 prototypes was forseen, but unavoidable. Due to the weapon design, with a higher focus on efficiency and power at close range, extending maximum blast distance without severely hindering other aspects of performance is impossible. However, a generation-2 prototype has been in development with the goal of extending the range of the antimatter blast. A much larger housing is needed to contain enhanced energy field generators and acceleration coils, and these gen-2 cannons draw much more power than the original prototype, by our estimates more than twice as much energy is necessary to fire the weapon.

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As a result, the generation-2 Naurian Prototype Breaker Turret will require a much larger vessel to mount; the Core's Bullhead-Class battlecruisers should be adequate, however we'll need to find a suitable vessel to field test the weapons. The order for four of these generation-2 prototypes has already been put in with the manufacturing floor.

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