Electro-Magnetic Plasma Cannon

Electro-Magnetic Plasma Cannon
Hull Damage (dps)	2,000
Shield Damage (dps)	5,200 kJ
Range	2 km
Rate of Fire	157 shots/minute
Projectile Speed	588 m/s
Max Weapon Energy	1,500 MJ
Energy Cost/Second	81 MJ/sec
Ware Electro-Magnetic Plasma Cannon Cargo Class S Volume 5 Min. Price (Cr) 306,413 Ave. Price (Cr) 322,540 Max. Price (Cr) 338,667

Overview

The standard weapon for all Terran fighters, and the least potent Terran weapon. Very expensive and fairly powerful for its class.

Encyclopedia Entry

A weapon mostly found on some medium to larger-sized fighter craft. The Earth Fleet's powerful and highly advanced Electro-Magnetic Plasma Cannon is the most common weapon found on Terran fighters. It uses powerful EM field generators to propel concentrated plasma bolts at enemies.

Commentary

The EMPC is both the lightest Terran gun and the sole gun permitted to Terran and ATF fighters.

The EMPC features projectile speed between the PAC and HEPT, shield DPS 13.33% below the PAC, hull DPS 33.33% above the HEPT, and range 0.08km above the PAC. Additionally, it touts approximately half the RoF of the HEPT, less than half the energy usage of a HEPT, and costs a bit over twice as much as a HEPT.

The EMPC is very efficient (and fairly powerful) against heavily hulled ships, and the lower shield damage is typically negligible versus light opponents. Against fast ships like M5 Scouts the EMPC will prove somewhat more accurate than a HEPT, but the lower volume of fire will result in less frequent hits. When struck a light vessel will often be crippled by the heavy hull damage.

The primary weaknesses of this armament are that it is the sole Terran fighter gun, and that it is the most expensive/slowest to produce/hardest to source of any fighter gun. Commonwealth ships in contrast typically have a variety of lighter, cheaper weapons ideal for engaging fast targets like the IRE, PRG and PBE, or more powerful weapons like the EBC and HEPT.

The standard version of the EMPC is cheaper, more powerful and shoots more rapidly than the (Aldrin) Experimental version.

Known Compatible Ships

• Terran Rapier
• Terran Sabre
• Terran Scimitar
• Terran Cutlass
• Terran Yokohama
• Terran Mobile-Mining Base Ship
• Terran Tokyo
• Terran Osaka
• Terran Baldric
• Terran Baldric Miner
• Terran Scabbard
• ATF Valkyrie
• ATF Mjolnir
• ATF Thor
• ATF Fenrir
• ATF Vidar
• ATF Vali
• ATF Aegir
• ATF Skirnir
• ATF Odin
• ATF Woden (not in vanilla)
• ATF Tyr
• ATF Valhalla (not in vanilla)
• Aldrin #deca.deaf
• Aldrin #deca.cefa
• Aldrin Spitfyre
• Xenon P
• Xenon PX
• Xenon J
• Xenon K
• Goner Truelight Seeker
• Argon Aamon Prototype