Weaponry

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A weapon is a tool or machine that can be used to inflict damage to or harm something or someone.

Starship weaponry
For Spaceships, there were various types of weapon systems:

Missiles

Missiles were a very common weapon range, used in medium to long ranges. Missiles could accelerate at incredible speeds, quickly closing the distance between launch and the target. Missiles with good targeting systems were almost impossible to dodge, and required active countermeasures to be stopped. Most missiles were armed with shrapnel, explosive, or plasma warheads.

Torpedo's

Torpedo's were often large and heavy missiles, armed with devastating warheads, designed for a very long operational range. Where large ships could survive one or more missile impacts, a direct hit from a torpedo warhead was destructive enough to disable or destroy even the largest spaceships and lay waste to entire planetside cities. Torpedo's accelerated significantly slower than regular missiles, although still faster than most spaceships. Torpedo's were often equipped with thermonuclear or antimatter warheads.

Laser

Laser weaponry were a incredibly precise, but slow and energy-intensive, weapon for use at any range, but was unique in that it could deliver damage at the speed of light. Powerful lasers could be used to burn through a targets hull at extremely long range and without notice, although most spaceship hulls were durable enough that laser systems could not immideatly burn holes in hulls. The weapon's damage was inversely proportional to the range at which it was used, as the focused light beam would eventually disperse throughout space. Lasers were also severely dispersed by atmospheres, making orbit-to-ground or ground-to-orbit laser weapons relatively weak.

Jazer particle beams

Jazer weaponry functioned much the same as lasers, but worked with heavier particles than light. Jazer systems were much more energy-intensive than Lasers, but delivered a far greater punch. Due to their energy consumption, Jazer cannons were relatively rare and mostly used as siege equipment. A famous ship class equipped with a Jazer siege cannon was the ASF Excalibur class

Kinetic artillery

Kinetic artillery often took the form of railguns or gauss-guns, heavy magnetic cannons that could hurl a metal rod at a fraction of the speed of light. Kinetic artillery was a devastating weapon system at the medium range, as it was virtually impossible to defend against. At greater distances, a target with sufficiently good computers and maneuvering capabilities could often dodge out of the way of the incoming metal rod. Railguns needed to be charged before they could fire, and this power-up sequence could be detected by vigilant observers. A hit from a gauss rod would often go straight through its target, dealing massive damage to a ship's internal systems and habitability.

Plasma cannons

A plasma cannon was a short-range defensive weapon system, spitting blobs of superheated gas at a target with great speed. The plasma was good for melting or disorienting incoming missiles and torpedo's, as well as dispersing the worst effects of both laser and jazer weapons. The plasma would also disperse quickly after launch, making it a very safe weapon to use indiscriminately. Its usage of the fusion reaction that powered most spaceships proved a drawback however, as using plasma weapons put a great drain on fuel supplies.

Point-defense cannons

Point-defense cannons, autocannons, or miniguns were short-range weapon systems that rapidly fired small projectiles at incoming targets. The cannons were the main defense against missiles and torpedo's. These weapons could also be used as destructive close-quarters weapons, although this was a rare occurrence.

Personal weaponry
Small arms were used by individuals for ground combat. Ground combat can be differentiated between two categories, melee combat and ranged combat

Melee combat
Melee combat was in close proximity to each other, and was often fought using a tool to hit an opponent. As technology progressed, melee weapons were upgraded with various technologies to enhance their combat capabilities against the ever effective ranged weapons.
 * Knifes
 * Swords
 * Axes
 * Silverlight series

Ranged combat
Ranged combat was often fought using a tool that launched projectiles or directed energy at an opponent.
 * Gun
 * Rifle
 * Sniper
 * Bow
 * Projectile launcher