Within this Particle Beam Lance system, the Calamity-class battlecruiser's original eight super-heavy laser cannons on each side had been converted into sixteen energy node arrays to power the entire system. Once the design was complete, the system's energy supply structure resembled a Christmas tree—the trunk was the central lance emitter, while the sixteen surrounding branches were the energy nodes.
That was precisely why Arroyo Barlow had chosen this warship design as the ideal prototype platform.
The Particle Beam Lance was essentially a high-energy lightspeed particle emitter. However, like all laser weapons and energy weapons, energy exhibited dispersal due to the principle of wave-particle duality. Energy weapons therefore could not remain focused for long periods; beyond a certain distance, their scattered energy was practically no different from a flashlight beam.
Thus, the greatest difficulty of this technology lay in keeping lightspeed particles focused for an extended period. After a single Particle Beam Lance shot had been fired, the gradually fading ion beam clearly revealed two trajectories—one was the straight path of direct fire, while the other was a spiral trajectory winding around that firing path.
That spiral trajectory was the most direct manifestation of the technology used to restrain and focus lightspeed particles.
In this era, warfare in the Milky Way Galaxy was still far from mature. With new weapons emerging one after another, everyone was feeling their way across the river. For instance, the appearance of Wraith fighters and Banshee Fighters had accelerated the Galactic Republic's research into anti-stealth technology. Then the Hypermatter Railguns of the Kohl-class Battlecruiser and Ragnarok-class Titan warship had forced the Galactic Republic to begin taking countermeasures against kinetic weapons seriously.
And now, an entirely new weapon had emerged—a lightspeed energy weapon with ultra-long range, the Particle Beam Lance!
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