Pax Ethenica
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OOC *Turns on the usual 1950's Did You Know? music and then sits down on a stoo, extending a telooscopic pointer as a chalkboard with a diagram of the female reproductive system slides in behind him for some odd reason...
"What is the HeRC? How does it work? Why shouldn't it be pointed at the ground?"
The name HeRC is a abbrieviation standing for High-energy Ray Composite, it was to be called the High-Energy Beam Composite Cannon but HEBCC was deemed not "cool enough" so HeRC was called! As a weapon, the HeRC is a reusable, land/orbital-based gun capable of knocking large chunks out of the moon. Because of this, you don't want to put one of these babies into orbit unless you want to reduce Texas into a patch of blackened glass, and who wouldn't? But once you wipe Texas off the map you'll wanna do Wyoming, and then Arkansas, and pretty soon you don't have much of a Deep South, now do you?"
How does it work, though? Well! Three large, victorian-house-size quantum generators feed terrawatts of power through a series of beam-type weapon emitters. We are going to go through them one at a time right now:
Multi-Spectrum Lasers: The name speaks for itself. A laser capable of emitting light throughout the entire visible spectrums and then some, reaching down into the ultrainfrared and way up into the hard X-Rays. This part of the weapon was mainly added to force a shielded target to blind itself. Because a HeRC blast lasts for a good three seconds, a lot can happen while the enemy is blind. Why would it blind a target, you say? Simple! Say you were looking at the sun, or better yet, you were walking down a sidewalk and the sun was right into your eyes, it's late day so the sun is rather low. What do you do? Look away and trip over something? No, you put your hand in front of your eyes, you SHIELD your eyes. Can you see the sun, the source of distress? No, you can't. If a target is able to have a shield that blocks and/or deflects every outside emission, nothing can get in, weapons fire, radio transmissions, regular light, nothing. That all said in buttloads of words, the MSL portion of the HeRC array is by no means for blinding only, it is quite powerful and more than capable of punching/irradiating large targets."
Ultraheavy Maser Emitters: These babies are a lot like the MSLs except that they focus more upon a single range in the light-spectrum. If you have metal on or around you, or if you're made of water... You don't want to be in front of these! Think of yourself like a hotdog in a huge-a** microwave... Very, very, very messy for metal and flesh."
Dual-excited Plasma Lance: A high-temperature stream of ultra-high-energy ion atoms directed by localized and projected magnetic fields. In Pax Guass' case, powdered alluminum subjected to microwave ecxcitation, and then rexcitation using a powerful ionization coil. When fired, the ion stream, if it hits its target, will attempt to chemically bond its unstable, electron-deficient molecules to whatever it can., in the proccess transfarring it's heat and energy to whatever it attempts to bond with. Needless to say, that if a DePL strikes a solid object, it is going to be the last experience said object will ever have as it is blown apart at the semi-molecular level. When a DeLP comes into contact with energy shields, the matter tends to pile up, and because by the time it reaches out the muzzle, a DeLP beam is about five time hotter than a sun, the heavy alluminum atoms start to undergo fusion, causing a short-lived cascade of sustained thermonuclear micro-explosions rippling over the shield, resulting in major EMP effects and additonal localized energy."
You also might be wondering why I have a diagrahm of the uterus and ovaries behind me... Well... I jsut liek drawwing them out in chalk."
"What is the HeRC? How does it work? Why shouldn't it be pointed at the ground?"
The name HeRC is a abbrieviation standing for High-energy Ray Composite, it was to be called the High-Energy Beam Composite Cannon but HEBCC was deemed not "cool enough" so HeRC was called! As a weapon, the HeRC is a reusable, land/orbital-based gun capable of knocking large chunks out of the moon. Because of this, you don't want to put one of these babies into orbit unless you want to reduce Texas into a patch of blackened glass, and who wouldn't? But once you wipe Texas off the map you'll wanna do Wyoming, and then Arkansas, and pretty soon you don't have much of a Deep South, now do you?"
How does it work, though? Well! Three large, victorian-house-size quantum generators feed terrawatts of power through a series of beam-type weapon emitters. We are going to go through them one at a time right now:
Multi-Spectrum Lasers: The name speaks for itself. A laser capable of emitting light throughout the entire visible spectrums and then some, reaching down into the ultrainfrared and way up into the hard X-Rays. This part of the weapon was mainly added to force a shielded target to blind itself. Because a HeRC blast lasts for a good three seconds, a lot can happen while the enemy is blind. Why would it blind a target, you say? Simple! Say you were looking at the sun, or better yet, you were walking down a sidewalk and the sun was right into your eyes, it's late day so the sun is rather low. What do you do? Look away and trip over something? No, you put your hand in front of your eyes, you SHIELD your eyes. Can you see the sun, the source of distress? No, you can't. If a target is able to have a shield that blocks and/or deflects every outside emission, nothing can get in, weapons fire, radio transmissions, regular light, nothing. That all said in buttloads of words, the MSL portion of the HeRC array is by no means for blinding only, it is quite powerful and more than capable of punching/irradiating large targets."
Ultraheavy Maser Emitters: These babies are a lot like the MSLs except that they focus more upon a single range in the light-spectrum. If you have metal on or around you, or if you're made of water... You don't want to be in front of these! Think of yourself like a hotdog in a huge-a** microwave... Very, very, very messy for metal and flesh."
Dual-excited Plasma Lance: A high-temperature stream of ultra-high-energy ion atoms directed by localized and projected magnetic fields. In Pax Guass' case, powdered alluminum subjected to microwave ecxcitation, and then rexcitation using a powerful ionization coil. When fired, the ion stream, if it hits its target, will attempt to chemically bond its unstable, electron-deficient molecules to whatever it can., in the proccess transfarring it's heat and energy to whatever it attempts to bond with. Needless to say, that if a DePL strikes a solid object, it is going to be the last experience said object will ever have as it is blown apart at the semi-molecular level. When a DeLP comes into contact with energy shields, the matter tends to pile up, and because by the time it reaches out the muzzle, a DeLP beam is about five time hotter than a sun, the heavy alluminum atoms start to undergo fusion, causing a short-lived cascade of sustained thermonuclear micro-explosions rippling over the shield, resulting in major EMP effects and additonal localized energy."
You also might be wondering why I have a diagrahm of the uterus and ovaries behind me... Well... I jsut liek drawwing them out in chalk."
