⧫ Project Blacknight
⧫ Damascus Research Station
⧫ 20:04 Sirius Time.
⧫ ENCRYPTION: Classified[V]
Project Blacknight
Developed by the Science Division on request of the secret Wedjat subdivision of the Overwatch to
create a weapon capable of pressuring smaller capital class vessels with a constant barrage of precise shots.
Battleship class weaponry, traditionally, was far too sluggish to properly punish more mobile vessels.
Using Project Holts Wrath as a starting point the Science Division set out to upscale it’s damage output.
While Holts Wrath was excellently suited for taking down hypermobile crafts like snub vessels, they needed
something with a bit more power to take down larger crafts such as gunboats.
By sacrificing a significant amount of refire rate and range, the Science Division was able to modify the turrets
to pack more of a punch while still maintaining a faster refire rate and projectile speed than traditional battleship class weapons.
This endeavor ended up more complicated than originally thought, as much of Project Holts Wrath design had been specifically
done in order to promote its performance against snub vessels. Simply upscaling the weapon proved ineffective,
resulting in several early stage prototypes exploding when maintaining a constant barrage.
Eventually the Science Division managed to overcome this hurdle by making adjustments to the energy calibrations.
This, alongside several other changes, resulted in a few functioning prototypes that were ready for field testing.
Project Blacknight proved effective during field testing, raining down rapid fire.
Overall the prototype was comparable to a more energy consuming,
stronger and faster version of standard primary battleship turrets.
A particularly unique benefit of the new calibration was that, unlike conventional weapons that specialized in
either taking down shields or a vessels hull and were weaker against the other,
Project Blacknight seemed to maintain most of its effectiveness against both.
Field testing proved the weapons were efficient on any class of vessel up to gunboats,
even going so far as reaching satisfactory performance against cruisers.
While not as effective as Project Holts Wrath against snub vessels,
it maintained enough efficiency to be considered a moderate improvement over all thanks to its increased utility.
Due to the iridium required in the production of these weapons,
as well as the uncommon modifications that need to be made to make them safe to use,
Project Blacknight is not commonly available to the Order and requires dedicated teams to produce them in small time consuming projects.
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