HBlue

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The Winter King Heavy Beam, also known as the HBlue, is a heavy beam cannon used by the GTVA in the FreeSpace 2 mod Blue Planet. The most powerful beam weapon system ever created by the GTVA, the Winter King is the signature weapon of the Raynor-class destroyer and serves as the warship's main forward armament. While slightly inferior to the infamous overloaded Crypt Hammer beams used by the GTVA Colossus in terms of damage, the Winter King more than makes up for this with a shorter recharge time, greater sustained damage and an effective range that exceeds even the dreaded BFRed. However, the Winter King has yet to be fully tested, leaving its reliability in prolonged engagements debatable.

Description

Blue Planet Tech Room Description

Offering massive direct-fire engagement capability, the 'Winter King' heavy beam system is the Alliance's answer to Shivan destroyers. This advanced beam weapon uses metric tons of slurry coolant and consumes the full power output of a dedicated meson reactor. A complicated fire-control subsystem helps the beam burn through particulate interference and vaporized target material. No Alliance weapons system is more powerful. The Winter King has yet to be thoroughly tested in a sustained combat environment.

Performance

Statistics

Range 9 750 m
Recharge Time 30 s
Beam Lifetime 4 s
Type: Direct
Shots 1
Damage per second 10 175
Damage per second (sustained) 1 357
Damage per pulse 40 700


Notes

Veteran Comments

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This beam does more sustained damage than a BFGreen and a longer range than the LRBGreen. A single HBlue can destroy an SD Demon in four pulses.


Shares the impressive distinction of being a beam cannon that, even by itself and only featured as a single beam cannon, is a major threat to all ships short of a juggernaut, and has the range, refire rate, and power to be a huge tactical and strategic concern beyond the destroyer it's mounted on. Note, however, that in one of the missions in Age of Aquarius featuring the Raynor and a certain dream sequence, the HBlue cannon was modified via FRED for the mission to be a BBlue, for dramatic/story purposes. If there's any major problems with this weapon, it's that it is so rare, making its advantages over the BBlue less appealing because it rarely ever sees use.