Talk:AIF/@comment-10905876-20160724045710

-Various AIF holdings and defensive batteries on Earth, Telos, and Mars-

Construction has begun on new surface to orbit weapons systems across the AIF. These new facilities, known as the Surface-Orbit Defense Laser MK I (or SOD Laser) will each house eight high power laser beam generators of a new advanced type being developed. These generators will be arranged to converge at a focusing point, where lenses and mirrors will allow the beams to be converged. They will then be passed to the emitter array, where the beam is directed to whichever target has been selected. The weapons array will be of variable power, with high power shots requiring a longer reload than lower damage shots. In addition, each of the eight laser generators may be fired individually, to allow for rapid fire against numerous smaller targets, or incoming missiles. The emitter array will be unable to fire multiple beams at once. Each laser generator has an individual set of fusion reactors powering it, allowing for more redundancy in operation.

The entire weapon facility will be encased in heavily armored pyramidal structures, with 53cm gun turrets and 36cm flak guns providing defense, along with numerous smaller weapons. (Turrets are scaled, the 53cm guns are represented by the identical but smaller 20cm Kreigsmarine gun, while hansa 40mm singles make the flak guns)

The facilities will be completed around the same time as the new weapons development projects conclude, providing the faculties with state of the art laser weaponry. The Home Islands will have 80 facilities, the Telos colonies will have 300, the Mars colony will have 10, and several dozen more will be installed at other AIF holdings such as Panama and the ISBA territory.



OOC: I'm figuring on something like a doomsday cannon level damage output from each tributary laser at full power, with the possibility of later upgrades. Later versions will be more subterranean to improve protection.