Message to: Large pirate factions, all house militaries, all engineering corporations

[The Professional]

[*]Can it be retrofitted and mounted on large capital-class ships?

Yes. This current prototype you have seen is capable of being mounted on a Siege Cruiser. In fact, that is the very power generator it is running off of right now. However, you would have to modify the ship slightly to deal with the size.

[*]What are the specific power input requirements?

High. One round would drain the entire core of a Siege Cruiser, and take about sixty seconds to be safe to fire once more. The amount of force it exerts could also damage an improperly braced frame of the Cruiser. Overloading and damaging the Cruiser would be bad indeed.

[*]Whats the base/core are you using for the electromagnet?

The electromagnet is simple. An Alternating current being quickly charged between my special Superconductors, and then forced through the entire length of the barrel charges both it and the rail. And as two same polar magnets would react, it launches the rail. Of course the charge is so powerful, it creates a stream of plasma, which looks remarkably like lightning.

[*]Is the material that the "bullets" are made out of easily manufactured and easily supplied?

The rails themselves are somewhat expensive, but the materials aren't entirely hard to come by. The rails are about a quarter of a million credits apeice, but that was with my current resources. I'm not an entrepreneur, so I'm not good at haggling. The price though is countered by the safety of the rails themselves. Much of the damage caused in capital ships is the ordinance inside exploding. These rails are nothing more than a bit of inert metal.

[*]Total cost of this apparatus?

This prototype cost me roughly two billion credits to build and develop, but producing another would be about one fourth of that. The price is considerable with our current technology, but that doesn't mean we can find ways to make it more easily produced.

I hope this answers your current questions, Captain Malrone.

And feel free to call me Doc, if you'd like.