Proton PBC

Range: 13.2 km
Damage: Very Low
Penetration: High
Rate of Fire: Very High



The Proton PBC uses a series of accumulators and accelerators to focus and compress the particles of the PBC beam before firing, but in addition protons and ions are thrown into the mix adding more energy into the bolt. The bolt is focused into a ball rather than a long line, so that it can fit quite a lot of energy for its size, but as a direct result has less power than other weapons. Using an advanced rapid fire module, gimbal mountings, and an advanced targeting system linked to the thrusters on the ship in order that it compensates automatically for your ships movement. An ion blast is shot just ahead of the energy bolt, in order to briefly disrupt the electronics on the ship momentarily lowering the shields. The disadvantage is this weapon has a slow recharge rate due to the amount of time it takes to gather and focus the protons/ions and charged particles. Due to a large weapon housing, however, you can shoot this weapon for many seconds before running it to 0 energy. Because of several incompatibilities with the standard and modified weapon modules most ships use to attach weapons onto pylons and heavy mount points this weapon can only be fitted on a medium hard point. Also it takes 1 cargo space to mount.


Annotation 7734.001 Clay Jefferson "And I thought only meson cannons could bypass shields, maybe I am getting old..."


Annotation 7734.002 Jafs "And faulty, my toast always comes out burnt, Cal I think we need a new toaster..."


Annotation 7734.003 Cal Johnston "So that's why there's always crumbs in the CD drive."