First built in YE 42, Origin Industries' Heavy Gauss Starship Cannon is a super-heavy anti-starship weapon designed to be as destructive a weapon as possible without having to rely on Aether technology.

The Heavy Gauss Starship Cannon, or HGSC was designed to be a super-heavy 'Main Gun' for large starships and space stations, as well as being capable for use in ground-to-orbit planetary defense systems. Based on the smaller 500mm Gauss Impelled Positron Cannon, and the much smaller LGSC, it is a scaled-up version providing the heaviest weaponry that Origin Industries makes as of YE 42 . While designed without a ship to go on, it is flexible in where it can be placed.

• Designer: Origin Defense Manufacturing
• Manufacturer: Origin Defense Manufacturing
• Name: Heavy Gauss Starship Cannon
• Nomenclature: OI-P0-4200
• Type: Gauss cannon
• Role: super-heavy anti-starship, planetary defense.
• Length: 25 meters
• Mass: 200,000 lbs, 90718 kg

The Normal appearance of the HGSC is a simple tube that is mounted onto a starship, star base, or ground emplacement, and can be either sticking out from the front of the craft or mounted along its surface. The rest of the HGSC is buried within the ship, star base, or ground emplacement. Unmounted, the HGSC is a long tube, which has a large receiver at one end where ammunition is inserted by an automatic loader.

• Muzzle Flash: Little to no muzzle flash, occasionally tiny golden sparks will come out with the round and dissipate almost immediately.
• Retort: In atmosphere, there is an extremely loud, sharp crack when the weapon is fired. Nearby personnel without hearing protection will be deafened.
• Projectile Appearance: The Projectile is a round or pointed nose projectile, usually black. It is invisible to the naked eye when fired.
• Effective Range 300,000 km in space¹⁾, 100,000 km in atmosphere
• Rate of Fire: 6 rounds per minute
• Recoil: Extremely high²⁾

The HGSC Fires 1000mm x 4000 MM Projectiles.

• Ammunition1000mm x 4000mm Gauss rounds
• Purpose: HEP³⁾: Tier 14, HKP⁴⁾: Tier 12. EMP⁵⁾ Tier 10 (Tier 12 to shields and Electronics)

Information about how the HGSC functions

• Firing Mechanism: A round is loaded into the chamber via an autoloader, and then pushed forward into the Gauss coils, which propel the round forward at high fractions of the speed of light. The coils and rails must be allowed to cool for several seconds before another round can be inserted, re-starting the cycle.
• Loading: A magazine feeds an auto-loader through a belt feed mechanism. The autoloader, when commanded, loads a round into the chamber. The autoloader can select between different ammunition types, but takes 3-5 rounds to switch between different types.

• Heavy Gauss Starship Cannon: 150,000 KS/Unit

• Barrel Assembly: 120,000 KS
• Autoloader: 40,000 KS

Ammunition pricing for the GGSC

Kai created this article on 2020/01/03 10:54.

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