Accelerator Cannons (Coda)

[Meteo]

FAC-1
Offense: 3
Space: 3
Min. Size: 3

FAC-2
Offense: 4
Space: 5
Min. Size: 4

FAC-3
Offense: 5
Space: 6
Min. Size: 5

Pen. Chart

Offense
1-9 : 2/2/2/0/0
10-14: 3/3/3/0/0
15-34: 4/4/4/0/0
35-5 9: 5/5/5/0/0
60-109: 6/6/6/0/0
110 and up: 7/7/7/0/0

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What exatcly are these? And where did you get the idea from? Are they to be mounted on Starships or Spacestations or are they meant to be ground based (planetary) defense installments?

[Identity Crisis]

Accelerator Cannons are weapons used on Federation ships before the invention of photon torpedoes in the FASA game. Enterprise has of course thrown that concept right out the window. But as low-tech missile weapons that would fall between Spatial Torps and Photon Torps the stats seem about right on first glance.

[Cut]

Accelerator Cannons are weapons used on Federation ships before the invention of photon torpedoes in the FASA game. Enterprise has of course thrown that concept right out the window. But as low-tech missile weapons that would fall between Spatial Torps and Photon Torps the stats seem about right on first glance.

Ah, FasaTrek. That is a blank point in my knowledge of Star Trek RPG. Thanks for the pointer

[Meteo]

Accelerator cannons are nukes put through a special energizing process in
an advanced launcher.

And f##k ENT, FASA's tech tree makes a lot more sense to me. the ships are actually primitive earlier on, and the Klingons actually do not have torps before the 2260s.

[BouncyCaitian]

Thot they meant mass drivers. But massdriver fired nuclear war heads makea certain form of sense, really.

What did they use as torpedos?

[Tobian]

Hmm I'm not sure how much sense a mass driver would make, especially in light of Enterprise: While I agree Enterprise did crap on a lot of old material, most of that was just made-up fan stuff, like Fasa Mass drivers still do need to have quite a large amount of mass to work, and they are only going to work if you have a very straight line of sight.. It would be fine for orbital bombardment, as is the point of mass drivers, but for Starship combat it wouldn't work. While Nuclear missiles are powerful weapons, they don't work the same in space, without air or mass to dislace in a shockwave, so a near miss would just be a miss...