Point-Defense Railgun
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Shipboard Point-Defense Railgun System
A Point-Defense Railgun or PDR is a weapon mount that uses a small Railgun to launch inert slugs at incoming threats. As long as the "threat" is unmanned, ie an asteroid, a missile, or similar, it can be fired under AI control. No human gunner is required unless the target is "manned".
The mount has two integrated slug magazines which each hold several hundred cartridges. The PDR is not quite an "infinite repeater" but an empty magazine can be easily replaced with a full one, so as long as the ship or station it is supplied from can keep changing magazines the effect is the same. Note that, like all other railguns, rail wear will rapidly affect accuracy.
Story Usage
A textual analysis of the story repository, current as of 9/2019 and performed on 2019-09-23 and using SS Lib ver 1.15.08 (9/21/2019) identified the following usage counts for Point-Defense Railgun:
- Ending This Mess by Zen Master 9 instances.
- Independent Command by Zen Master 4 instances.
- The First Command by Zen Master 1 instances.
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