Vishnan Beam Weapons - Revision history

Androgeos Exeunt: /* Veteran Comments */ Not so ambiguous now.

2017-10-21T12:19:12Z

Veteran Comments: Not so ambiguous now.

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	{{Comment\|''The strongest of the lot, the LRABeam, has the second-greatest effective range behind the canon [[Shivan Super Laser]] (if you count that as a beam) and does more damage per pulse than even the BFRed. However, it loses out significantly on the reload time, so it only does a bit more sustained damage than the LRed. Exacerbating this problem is the fact that the Vishnan fleet as we know it lacks diversity versus their Shivan counterparts, so the LRABeam and BABeam are only seen on Vishnan Sacred Keepers and the Vishnan Preserver, which rarely take on other warships on their own. The main Vishnan ship class doing much of the anti-capship work, the Vishnan Arbiter, comes with 4 SABeams; each do only slightly more than half the sustained damage of a single BGreen, so the Arbiter's head-on pass is just about as deadly as an Orion's broadside. The ABeamTiny, seen only on the Vishnan Protector, is comparable to the SRed both in terms of sustained damage and damage dealt per pulse, making a Protector resemble a ~~Vishnan~~ Cain in that regard. As for the Vishnan AAA, it has a 300 m range advantage over the AAAf/h and fires slightly quicker, making it akin to a slightly better AAAf/h.''}}		{{Comment\|''The strongest of the lot, the LRABeam, has the second-greatest effective range behind the canon [[Shivan Super Laser]] (if you count that as a beam) and does more damage per pulse than even the BFRed. However, it loses out significantly on the reload time, so it only does a bit more sustained damage than the LRed. Exacerbating this problem is the fact that the Vishnan fleet as we know it lacks diversity versus their Shivan counterparts, so the LRABeam and BABeam are only seen on Vishnan Sacred Keepers and the Vishnan Preserver, which rarely take on other warships on their own. The main Vishnan ship class doing much of the anti-capship work, the Vishnan Arbiter, comes with 4 SABeams; each do only slightly more than half the sustained damage of a single BGreen, so the Arbiter's head-on pass is just about as deadly as an Orion's broadside. The ABeamTiny, seen only on the Vishnan Protector, is comparable to the SRed both in terms of sustained damage and damage dealt per pulse, making a Protector resemble a Cain in that regard. As for the Vishnan AAA, it has a 300 m range advantage over the AAAf/h and fires slightly quicker, making it akin to a slightly better AAAf/h.''}}
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2017-10-21T12:18:43Z

Veteran Comments: Whoops

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	{{Comment\|''The strongest of the lot, the LRABeam, has the second-greatest effective range behind the canon [[Shivan Super Laser]] (if you count that as a beam) and does more damage per pulse than even the BFRed. However, it loses out significantly on the reload time, so it only does a bit more sustained damage than the LRed. Exacerbating this problem is the fact that the Vishnan fleet as we know it lacks diversity versus their Shivan counterparts, so the LRABeam and BABeam are only seen on Vishnan Sacred Keepers and the Vishnan Preserver, which rarely take on other warships on their own. The main Vishnan ship class doing much of the anti-capship work, the Vishnan Arbiter, comes with 4 SABeams; each do only slightly more than half the sustained damage of a single BGreen, so the Arbiter's head-on pass is just about as deadly as an Orion's broadside. The ABeamTiny, seen only on the Vishnan Protector, is comparable to the SRed both in terms of sustained damage and damage dealt per pulse, making ~~an Arbiter~~ resemble a Vishnan Cain in that regard. As for the Vishnan AAA, it has a 300 m range advantage over the AAAf/h and fires slightly quicker, making it akin to a slightly better AAAf/h.''}}		{{Comment\|''The strongest of the lot, the LRABeam, has the second-greatest effective range behind the canon [[Shivan Super Laser]] (if you count that as a beam) and does more damage per pulse than even the BFRed. However, it loses out significantly on the reload time, so it only does a bit more sustained damage than the LRed. Exacerbating this problem is the fact that the Vishnan fleet as we know it lacks diversity versus their Shivan counterparts, so the LRABeam and BABeam are only seen on Vishnan Sacred Keepers and the Vishnan Preserver, which rarely take on other warships on their own. The main Vishnan ship class doing much of the anti-capship work, the Vishnan Arbiter, comes with 4 SABeams; each do only slightly more than half the sustained damage of a single BGreen, so the Arbiter's head-on pass is just about as deadly as an Orion's broadside. The ABeamTiny, seen only on the Vishnan Protector, is comparable to the SRed both in terms of sustained damage and damage dealt per pulse, making a Protector resemble a Vishnan Cain in that regard. As for the Vishnan AAA, it has a 300 m range advantage over the AAAf/h and fires slightly quicker, making it akin to a slightly better AAAf/h.''}}
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2016-12-03T15:26:49Z

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	{{Comment\|}}		{{Comment\|''The strongest of the lot, the LRABeam, has the second-greatest effective range behind the canon [[Shivan Super Laser]] (if you count that as a beam) and does more damage per pulse than even the BFRed. However, it loses out significantly on the reload time, so it only does a bit more sustained damage than the LRed. Exacerbating this problem is the fact that the Vishnan fleet as we know it lacks diversity versus their Shivan counterparts, so the LRABeam and BABeam are only seen on Vishnan Sacred Keepers and the Vishnan Preserver, which rarely take on other warships on their own. The main Vishnan ship class doing much of the anti-capship work, the Vishnan Arbiter, comes with 4 SABeams; each do only slightly more than half the sustained damage of a single BGreen, so the Arbiter's head-on pass is just about as deadly as an Orion's broadside. The ABeamTiny, seen only on the Vishnan Protector, is comparable to the SRed both in terms of sustained damage and damage dealt per pulse, making an Arbiter resemble a Vishnan Cain in that regard. As for the Vishnan AAA, it has a 300 m range advantage over the AAAf/h and fires slightly quicker, making it akin to a slightly better AAAf/h.''}}
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2012-09-12T06:35:16Z

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	[[Image:RScreen0051.png\|thumb\|right\|480px\|Two [[Vishnan Arbiter]]s attack the [[SD Lucifer\|SD ''Lucifer'']] from behind with their primary beam cannons, with additional firepower coming from the [[GTD Orestes\|GTD ''Orestes'']] off-screen.]]		[[Image:RScreen0051.png\|thumb\|right\|480px\|Two [[Vishnan Arbiter]]s attack the [[SD Lucifer\|SD ''Lucifer'']] from behind with their primary beam cannons, with additional firepower coming from the [[GTD Orestes\|GTD ''Orestes'']] off-screen.]]
	===Blue Planet Tech Room Description===		===Blue Planet Tech Room Description===
	Vishnan beam weapons, like those of the Alliance and the Shivans, are relativistic plasma weapons. Unlike their Shivan and Alliance counterparts, Vishnan beams use a strip of gravitationally altered space-time, rather than a magnetic bottle, to guide the beam to its target. Gravity is a significantly less powerful force than electromagnetism, so the power requirements should be enormous and the efficiency reduced, but Vishnan beam weapons nonetheless outperform our own. Hasty examination of Vishnan warship debris suggests that they lack internal heatsinks. Scientists hypothesize that the Vishnans may sink heat through standing subspace gates. Although Vishnan beam weapons are powerful and frequently outperform Shivan equivalents, they do not seem capable of the extreme scalability that allows the Shivans to generate weapons like the Sathanas ~~juggernaught~~'s main guns.		Vishnan beam weapons, like those of the Alliance and the Shivans, are relativistic plasma weapons. Unlike their Shivan and Alliance counterparts, Vishnan beams use a strip of gravitationally altered space-time, rather than a magnetic bottle, to guide the beam to its target. Gravity is a significantly less powerful force than electromagnetism, so the power requirements should be enormous and the efficiency reduced, but Vishnan beam weapons nonetheless outperform our own. Hasty examination of Vishnan warship debris suggests that they lack internal heatsinks. Scientists hypothesize that the Vishnans may sink heat through standing subspace gates. Although Vishnan beam weapons are powerful and frequently outperform Shivan equivalents, they do not seem capable of the extreme scalability that allows the Shivans to generate weapons like the Sathanas juggernaut's main guns.

	==Performance==		==Performance==

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2010-09-18T06:26:12Z

Notes: Ditto

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	==Notes==		==Notes==
	*Weapons are beam cannons [[Weapons.tbl#.22beam.22\|(beam)]]		*Weapons are beam cannons [[Weapons.tbl#.22beam.22\|(beam)]]
	*Weapons are capable of easily damaging ~~even larger~~ vessels [[Weapons.tbl#.22Huge.22\|(Huge)]]		*Weapons are capable of easily damaging large vessels [[Weapons.tbl#.22Huge.22\|(Huge)]]
	*Weapons cannot be mounted on small ships [[Weapons.tbl#.22Big_Ship.22\|(Big Ship)]] — excluding Vishnan AAA		*Weapons cannot be mounted on small ships [[Weapons.tbl#.22Big_Ship.22\|(Big Ship)]] — excluding Vishnan AAA
	*Weapons refire rate is the same on all difficulty levels [[Weapons.tbl#.22same_turret_cooldown.22\|(same turret cooldown)]] — excluding Vishnan AAA		*Weapons refire rate is the same on all difficulty levels [[Weapons.tbl#.22same_turret_cooldown.22\|(same turret cooldown)]] — excluding Vishnan AAA

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2010-06-27T14:55:00Z

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	{{~~Non-canon~~}}		{{BPArticle}}
	In [[Blue Planet]] continuity, the [[Vishnans]] are a species the [[GTVA]] 14th Battlegroup first encountered directly while holding off a massive Shivan fleet near the other side of the N362 [[Knossos]]. The Vishnans are the second alien species encountered by the GTVA to demonstrate beam-capable warships. In general, '''Vishnan beam weapons''' out-damage and out-range their [[Shivans\|Shivan]] counterparts, let alone any beam the GTVA has ever created. However, Vishnan beam weapons have fairly lengthy recharge periods, with their anti-warship beams topping out at 25 seconds.		In [[Blue Planet]] continuity, the [[Vishnans]] are a species the [[GTVA]] 14th Battlegroup first encountered directly while holding off a massive Shivan fleet near the other side of the N362 [[Knossos]]. The Vishnans are the second alien species encountered by the GTVA to demonstrate beam-capable warships. In general, '''Vishnan beam weapons''' out-damage and out-range their [[Shivans\|Shivan]] counterparts, let alone any beam the GTVA has ever created. However, Vishnan beam weapons have fairly lengthy recharge periods, with their anti-warship beams topping out at 25 seconds.

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2010-06-06T12:08:17Z

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	==Notes==		==Notes==
			*Weapons are beam cannons [[Weapons.tbl#.22beam.22\|(beam)]]
			*Weapons are capable of easily damaging even larger vessels [[Weapons.tbl#.22Huge.22\|(Huge)]]
			*Weapons cannot be mounted on small ships [[Weapons.tbl#.22Big_Ship.22\|(Big Ship)]] — excluding Vishnan AAA
			*Weapons refire rate is the same on all difficulty levels [[Weapons.tbl#.22same_turret_cooldown.22\|(same turret cooldown)]] — excluding Vishnan AAA

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Androgeos Exeunt: Added an opening description.

2010-06-06T09:21:43Z

Added an opening description.

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			In [[Blue Planet]] continuity, the [[Vishnans]] are a species the [[GTVA]] 14th Battlegroup first encountered directly while holding off a massive Shivan fleet near the other side of the N362 [[Knossos]]. The Vishnans are the second alien species encountered by the GTVA to demonstrate beam-capable warships. In general, '''Vishnan beam weapons''' out-damage and out-range their [[Shivans\|Shivan]] counterparts, let alone any beam the GTVA has ever created. However, Vishnan beam weapons have fairly lengthy recharge periods, with their anti-warship beams topping out at 25 seconds.

	==Description==		==Description==
	[[Image:RScreen0051.png\|thumb\|right\|480px\|Two [[Vishnan Arbiter]]s attack the [[SD Lucifer\|SD ''Lucifer'']] from behind with their primary beam cannons, with additional firepower coming from the [[GTD Orestes\|GTD ''Orestes'']] off-screen.]]		[[Image:RScreen0051.png\|thumb\|right\|480px\|Two [[Vishnan Arbiter]]s attack the [[SD Lucifer\|SD ''Lucifer'']] from behind with their primary beam cannons, with additional firepower coming from the [[GTD Orestes\|GTD ''Orestes'']] off-screen.]]

TopAce at 10:07, 23 May 2010

2010-05-23T10:07:42Z

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Snail at 21:40, 22 May 2010

2010-05-22T21:40:23Z

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	~~[[Category:Weapon]]~~

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	==Notes==		==Notes==
	*Weapons are beam cannons [[Weapons.tbl#.22beam.22\|(beam)]]		*Weapons are beam cannons [[Weapons.tbl#.22beam.22\|(beam)]]
	*Weapons are capable of easily damaging ~~even larger~~ vessels [[Weapons.tbl#.22Huge.22\|(Huge)]]		*Weapons are capable of easily damaging large vessels [[Weapons.tbl#.22Huge.22\|(Huge)]]
	*Weapons cannot be mounted on small ships [[Weapons.tbl#.22Big_Ship.22\|(Big Ship)]] — excluding Vishnan AAA		*Weapons cannot be mounted on small ships [[Weapons.tbl#.22Big_Ship.22\|(Big Ship)]] — excluding Vishnan AAA
	*Weapons refire rate is the same on all difficulty levels [[Weapons.tbl#.22same_turret_cooldown.22\|(same turret cooldown)]] — excluding Vishnan AAA		*Weapons refire rate is the same on all difficulty levels [[Weapons.tbl#.22same_turret_cooldown.22\|(same turret cooldown)]] — excluding Vishnan AAA