Laser Weaponry

Laser Weapons

Weapons that use intense light photons to heat something to a point of melting, incineration, combustion and possibly explosion depending. These weapons take many forms and many Empires have these weapons to some degree, and they can be either infantry, vehicle, or ship based weapons.

New Covenant Laser Weapons

The New Covenant has access to the most wide spread and powerful laser based weaponry of any empire, having no rival in this field. This mostly has to do with a cost effective design capable of mass production and distribution among infantry.

Laser Rifle and Pistols

New Covenant Guardsmen have Laser Rifles and Laser Pistols as standard issue weapons, these weapons use rechargeable packs that can be recharged by heat and light over time, though charging them with another power source such as a generator is always faster, but this does severely improve their efficiency and making them less cumbersome by not needing power packs that other Empire would need to use to achieve this. However higher end more powerful Lasers do need a power pack, but these older models have been phased out by Over-Charged Laser Rifles and Pistols, which use a super charged rechargeable power pack that provides them with more power, but these weapons are more advanced, in fact the most advanced Laser Weapon of standard size that is fielded and is limited by numbers unlike their cheaper counter parts.

Laser Cannons

The next step up in New Covenant laser weapons, these weapons are usually vehicle mounted and are specifically used for anti-armor purposes. Such weapons are capable of punching a hole right through a Crusader if given the chance, due to the amount of power they out put in a single shot. These weapons can be Twin-Linked on vehicles, to provide more anti-armor power. Laser Cannons also have Hand held Heavy Weapon versions that are usually shoulder mounted, but can be held depending on the Model. These are also used in emplacements and can be manned by a heavy weapons team, mounting it on a tripod. These infantry versions use single use battery packs as the amount of power needed to fire it uses an entire charge, though they can be attached to a generator to power them. On vehicles they are always connected to a generator.

Multi-Laser

Another Laser weapon, these weapons are mounted on vehicles, usually light vehicles and light walkers. These weapons are powered by the vehicles generator and are rapid fire lasers meant for killing infantry and suppressive fire. This weapon is most typically mounted on light troop transports for New Covenant Guardsmen.

Larger Laser Cannons

Anything larger than the standard Laser cannon, these next step up laser are extremely power super heavy weapons, usually only mounted on super heavy vehicles, or ships. The Volcano Cannon is the Largest Vehicle mountable weapon, it is essentially a defense laser meant for shooting down small Space Vessels, when not used in an emplacement it can be mounted on the extremely large super tank the Greatsword battle tank, which takes the form of a variant that is dedicated solely to mounting a single Volcano cannon which it used for finishing off other super heavy vehicles, though on such a small vehicle for the cannons power, it suffers in its firing rate which is slow meaning the tank takes the role as a sniper with this weapon mounted. The Volcano Cannon is also used on small Ships and as minor defense lasers on Large ships.

Larger more powerful Versions take the form of Laser Lances, which can be mounted on most space vessels limited to one on the Frigates, and multiple on Large Vessels such as Battleships. They take the form of turrets mostly though on small vessels they are forward mounted. Due to the power needed to fire this lasers, they usually draw directly from a ships main Reactors, and if a ship has many, they usually must lower their engine output to give more power to the laser if they intend to fire them long range, though can be fired short range using less power and still being able to destroy other vessels foolish enough to get close, punching through even the heaviest armor of even the largest Warships, and cutting escort sized ships in two in a single shot.