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[littleshortforanelemental]

Nikolai's next upgrade, besides the underwater armor, will be a field gun, to offset some of the firepower difference between SS sized elementals and M and up sized enemies. There's plenty of guns to draw on from BT canon but I think it'd be interesting to make the upgrade cross-canon. Suggestions? Only requirements are that it not require an external power source and not be too huge for elemental power armor to tow/push on wheels.

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[gurrenbrigbonded]

Here's a list of some of the weapons system UC Gundam has:

http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Universal_Century_Weapons

Of the various devices I read about, the Beam Spray gun seemed like a neat weapon option that could be scaled down to a portable field gun.

Compared to other mobile suit beam weapons, it's tiny and compact, the Walther PPK of particle cannons. There'd be plenty of spare parts to work with, left over from One Year War stock (the chest pieces of Doms and the pistols of GMs respectively).

It'd be less powerful than a proportional PPC cannon, but as a neutral particle beam, less likely to give off lethal static discharges that would harm a ground crew.

Most interestingly, it would have an adjustable aperture, allowing an Elemental crew to switch between a compressed armor piercing mode and a scatter beam mode that overloads sensors Dom style.

A beam spray field gun would not only give an Elemental crew extra punch, but give them some interesting tactical options.

What do you think?

[littleshortforanelemental]

Oh, sounds interesting! I think I might have put this post in the wrong place though.