High powered beams of amplified light energy.

The lowest tech of all large ship weapons, but still very useful due to their low cost of only 10mc each. The heavy laser does a fair amount of damage to hyper drive engines and subspace engines. They have a very slow recharge rate. They take 40 seconds to recharge, but draw only 1gw of power per second. These weapons will pass through the shields of ships belonging to the Evil Empire, but can not hit the empire ship's soft spot.

Fire and forget rockets with a gamma ray bomb warhead. Widely used as an anti personnel weapon to soften up enemy ships before boarding parties attempt to capture the vessel.

Very vulnerable to point defense fire. The weapon has good accuracy, uses 3 ordnance units per shot, does a fair amount of damage to control systems, does a fair amount of damage to engines, is very deadly to target crew members and takes very little energy to fire, only 12gw, but does only 2 units of damage to target armor.

Fires a projectile with no internal power, propulsion or guidance system. It is useful against big slow targets, but useless against small fast ships that can out maneuver the aim of this weapon. This weapon has a 1000 point blast bonus when fired at a ground base. The shells fired are vulnerable to point defense fire, very inaccurate. The weapon uses 5 ordnance units per shot and takes very little energy to fire, only 0gw.

The Evil Empire's Super Star Cruiser has a special ballistic computer that adds a +100% to this weapons accuracy.

The Sand Caster fires a large cloud of sand grain sized particles that are magnetically attracted to the target vessel. The particles do only 1 unit of damage to target armor, but will drain the target of 70 shield power units.

The Sand Caster is a very useful weapon in quickly draining a target`s shields so that other weapons that are more effective at punching through armor or disabling the ships systems can take their toll. A favorite weapon of the Privateers to take down shields so that Ion Cannons can be used to knock out the ship systems. A Sand Caster will automatically stop firing at ships that have no shields to conserve ordnance, unless the Energized Sand exotic tech is in use. Armor drain exotics do not cause the Sand Caster to continue to fire at shieldless ships.

The weapon is fragile, it fails with only 10 points of damage.

Only the Concussion Rocket point defense system can shoot down a sand caster round with point defense, Concussion Rockets have 60% odds of knocking out a Sand Caster round and a 30% chance of knocking out an energized Sand Caster round.

The Sand Caster is the most accurate of all weapons, it uses 25 ordnance units per shot, is a very short ranged weapon, and recharges in just 5 seconds.

The weapon is the only large ship weapon that can be fired at fighters and have any chance of hitting them. Cheaper fighters with no armor plate are easily destroyed by sand casters. Fighters with armor are very resistant to being damaged by a Sand Caster. The Exotic tech sand shield can help to protect fighters from Sand Casters and the exotic tech Energized Sand can counter the sand shield tech as well as make the weapon even more deadly when fired on ships, by improving the odds of hitting the target by 25% and by draining an extra 50 points of the target's shields. Energized sand will also arc through 2000 units of ship armor and do light damage to the inside of the target ship. This light damage has the chance of hitting the target's soft spot, causing the ship to explode making the Sand Caster with Energized Sand exotic tech a very dangerous weapon when used on enemy ships with large soft spots.

Every time a sand caster fires at an enemy ship it will knock out up to 15 enemy holodecoys regardless if it actually hits the target enemy ship. This tends to improve the accuracy of all other weapons that are having to deal with the problem of holodecoys.

Fires a blast of hydrogen gas undergoing a fusion reaction.

Can quickly take out lightly shielded ships by arcing through both light shields and light armor as if they where not even there, it arcs through 60 units of ship armor and can arc through up to 75 units of shield power, hits drain very little power from the target`s shields.

Fires a tight blast of hydrogen gas undergoing a strong force atomic transformation. The weapon is similar to the Fusion Beam, but its shots have a longer range, are more accurate, and can arc through much more shields and armor. On the down side the Force Beam drains less power from the shields and destroys less armor. The energy from a Force Beam jumps through 150 units of armor and can arc through up to 150 units of shield power.

Force Beams are expensive, but tough. They can take up to 160 points of damage and continue to fire. They do a fair amount of damage to control systems, but very little to the target`s shield energy.

Force Beams impacting on armor will cause ord units inside the ship to explode. 200 + Rnd*200 Ordnance on the Target are destroyed.

Fires a shock wave of weak force / magnetic energy that disrupts the binding energies of all matter it impacts. The disruption of matter releases a burst of gamma radiation which is deadly to target crew members.

This cannon high damage to life support systems, does a good amount of damage to engines, recharges in just 5 seconds and draws a healthy 8 gw of power a second when recharging.

Fires very high speed matter packets that drill holes through target ships. These holes cause venting and secondary explosions that are deadly to the target ship`s crew members. This weapon is very vulnerable to point defense fire. The mass driver is very inaccurate, uses 5 ordnance units per shot and takes very little energy to fire, only 10gw.

The Aczanny have a 42% accuarcy bonus when using this weapon.

The Aczanny hull designs have a Mass Driver bonus that causes the weapon to remove 10 extra points of armor. This will work for any race that owns a ship of Aczanny hull design.

The anti-matter gun fires a round of anti-matter designed to destroy armor plating. The shots from this gun are very vulnerable to point defense fire and very inaccurate. The gun uses 2 ordnance units per shot. It is very deadly to target crew members., takes very little energy to fire, only 10gw, drains very little from the target`s shields, but blows away a whopping 70 units of armor per hit.

This weapon has a 700 point blast bonus when fired at a ground base.

The Evil Empire's Super Star Cruiser has a special ballistic computer that adds a +100% to this weapons accuracy

Fires a massive brute force blast of dirty energy. The energy is a mix of plasma, photons, quarks and mesons. Designed and widely used by the Lizards as their number one weapon of choice. The blaster cannon has good accuracy, uses 1 ordnance unit per shot, does very heavy damage to engines, does very high amounts of damage to target ship`s parts, is extremely deadly to target`s crew members, has extremely high explosive blast power. It has the slowest rate of fire of all weapons, taking a whole 100 seconds to recharge. The weapon blows away 80 units of target armor with every hit, doing the most amount of damage to target armor of all weapons, can arc through up to 140 units of shield, and every hit drains the target of 180 units of shield power.

This weapon has a 3000 point blast bonus when fired at a ground base.

Energy mines are very vulnerable to point defense fire, use 3 ordnance units per shot and are very short ranged weapon. These weapons pass through the shields of ships belonging to the Reunited Coalition of Systems and their point defense system are unable to shoot them down.

Energy mines impacting on ship armor will cause repair units inside the ship to burst. 100 + Rnd*100 Repair Units on the Target are destroyed.

The Photon Torpedo are the longest range of all large weapons. It uses 10 ordnance units per shot, point defense systems have an easy time of shooting down photon torpedoes. Holo Decoys reduce accuracy by 1/4 their numbers (by max 60 if there is 240+ of them). It is a highly accurate weapon, does a fair amount of damage to engines, deadly to target crew members, has a high explosive blast power, takes very little energy to fire, only 8gw and draws only 1gw of power when charging.

The Solar Federation has a +50 accuracy bonus when using Photon Torpedoes. Stormer ship shields are highly resistant to Photon Torpedoes, their ships shields loose only 5 points of energy instead of the normal 90 points that Photon Torpedoes drain from other ships.

The weapon requires 150kt weapons mounts, has poor accuracy, uses 2 ordnance units per shot, does high damage to life support systems, does high amounts of damage to target ship`s parts, extremely deadly to target crew members, extremely high explosive blast power, has the largest energy storage cell of all weapons (700 gw of power when fully charged), for use on ships that have a high energy output, because of the high power draw while charging (35 gw of power a second), arcs through up to 70 units of armor, blows away 70 units of armor per shot, shots can arc through 260 units of shield and drains the target of 120 units of shield power.

The Reunited Coalition of Systems have two ships ( Lotus and Aurora) that have a Plasma stream enhancement device that boost weapon range to 3750 combat units on the Lotus and 4750 combat units on the Aurora and increases the weapons accuracy for both ships by 60. Yes, 3750 and 4750 are the actual combat ranges of the weapon, those are not typos. They also use three times the normal amount of ord and charge at twice the normal rate.

Target armor reduced by 4 on non-Lizard hulls and Targets not owned by Lizards.

The weapon does heavy damage to engines, has high explosive blast power and drains the target of 100 units of shield power.

The Solar Federation has a +30% accuracy bonus when they use this weapon.

This is a massive array of Ion Guns that share a central power supply. The system tracks and fires on a single target. The ion guns fire bolts of highly ionized hydrogen which do very little damage to the hull and engines of the target, but has the nasty side effect of sending a electrical overload to the ships control systems, burning out control systems and computers. Ships which lose their control systems are unable to maneuver or fire back, making them an easy target of boarding parties. The static charge is able to travel through up to 3000 units of armor and do damage to internal systems.

This weapon requires a 700kt weapons mount. It is almost impossible to stop an ionic bolt with point defense. The ionic bolts do a very high amount of damage to control systems, recharges in just 2 seconds, draws a whopping 40gw a second of power and drains a mere 2 shield power units with every hit and does no damage to armor. These weapons like all large weapons can be enhanced with exotic tech to do more damage to the target's shields and armor

More firepower per kt than any other weapon system. This nightmarish weapon can pump out a shot every 2 seconds. The gatling phasor requires a 150kt weapons mount.

The Solar Federation has a +40% accuracy bonus when they use this weapon.