Multi-Mode Aether Shock Array

The Aether Shock Array has been a main cannon system used by the Star Army of Yamatai since YE 28.

The Aether Shock Array was first designed for use on the Sakura-class Light Gunship in YE 28. Ketsurui Fleet Yards found the weapon to be ideal for use on Star Army of Yamatai ships and the design quickly gained popularity and widespread usage. In YE 29, an upgrade was made to include a Transposition Fold "Legacy" Cannon fire option for the weapon. The weapon continued to appear as a mainstay on ship classes and was even placed in a more advanced form as the Ke-B5-W3900 Amenonuhoko-Class Main Weapon Array on the Izanagi-Class Dreadnought in YE 39.

In YE 43 the weapon is still in active use and is the main weapon of many Star Army Starship Classes that are gunships or larger.

The weapon has taken on three different forms so far across Ketsurui Fleet Yards designs. It is a forward-facing structure on the bow of the ship.

• “The Sword”, an iconic sword-like shape found on ships like the Sakura-class Light Gunship, Plumeria-class (2E) Medium Gunship and Azusa-class Light Gunship.
• “The Prongs”, a forked double prong design found on ships like the Sharie-class Battleship.
• “The Bulge”, a more rounded design found on the Fuji-class Expeditionary Gunship and Nozomi II-class Scout¹⁾

The array projects an intense Scalar Field that disrupts space/time within a target region at the quantum level, causing a massive tear in the fabric of reality. The resulting spatial instability releases all the potential energy within the affected region of space in the form of a massive and incredibly destructive flood of aether particles and other forms of hard radiation. The unstable aether particles interact catastrophically with nearly all forms of matter and energy, disrupting defensive barriers and interfering with the fundamental nuclear forces that bind matter together.

As a transposition array, the weapon system folds space/time between two points, generally causing reality within the targeted area to collapse in on itself implosively. In this mode, the array places an incredible strain on the affected area of space/time that can take weeks or even months to “heal,” creating a trench-like pseudo-black hole phenomenon in space that will attempt to draw in and 'crush' certain objects or ships in its vicinity, depending on whether or not they are actively utilizing space/time anchors or distortion-based technology.

General statistics for the Multi-mode Aether Shock Array.

Different firing modes of the Multi-Mode Aether Shock Array.

The Plumeria-class (2E) Medium Gunship²⁾and the Azusa-class Light Gunship³⁾ also have:

The Chiaki-class (1B) Escort Destroyer, Yui 7-class Scout, and Nozomi II-class Scout have the following fire modes:

Andrew created this article on 2021/01/31 16:13.

The goal of this page is to eliminate the vast number of stub articles.

Used collective information from:

• Ke-B5-W3900 Amenonuhoko-Class Main Weapon Array by Khasidel.
• Ke-S3-W3900 Main Weapon Array by Frostjaeger and Ametheliana.
• Ke-B3-W3000 Main Weapon Array by Wes
• Ke-S3-W2920 Main Weapon Array by Wes
• Ke-S3-W3020 Main Weapon Array by Wes
• My-B1-W3000 Aether Shock Array by Wes

This was approved by Wes in this thread.

Yuuki added some ships featuring the newer Ke-D2-W4000 Shock Cannon by Toshiro for easy reference.