SGreen

Small Green Beam is a beam used by the Terrans in the Freespace 2

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Weapons in FreeSpace 2

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Description

Basic Terran anti-capital ship beam weapon

Performance

Statistics

Range	4 000 m
Recharge Time	45 s
Beam Lifetime	2.5 s
Type:	Direct
Shots	1
Damage per second	1 155
Damage per second (sustained)	2 888
Damage per pulse	{{{8}}}

Notes

Veteran Comments

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The SGreen is statistically one of the weakest beam cannons in the game, however, because of the unpredictable nature of "slash" type beams such as the TerSlash there are those who believe this is superior. The biggest fault of this beam is the 45 seconds between shots, so if one misses, then the ship that fired it just had a huge problem, as it can't defend itself for another three-quarters of a minute. The SVas and SRed are simply light years ahead of this weapon. This beam has the dubious distinction of having the lowest sustained damage of any anti-warship beam.

The Terrans would do well to scrap this piece of junk, but another Fusion Mortar wouldn't be much better.

The Relative inferiority of the smaller Terran Beams to their Vasudan equivalents may be explained by them being physically smaller and easier to mount, Terran Capital ships consistently mount more anti warship beam weapons than their Vasudan (or indeed Shivan) equivalents.

Either that or Terran reactor design is behind the Shivans and Vasudans.

One thing to note is how Terran beam cannons discharge their beams. All Terran beams are weak because a significant amount of energy is lost every time they fire. In comparison, when you look at Shivan beams, you realise that they seem to discharge their energy very smoothly...and even the newer Vasudan beams do not suffer that much energy loss either. Terran beams are actually much more powerful than their Vasudan or Shivan counterparts, but because the Terrans don't seem to care very much about energy loss, they end up being less powerful instead. With all the energy released by an SGreen focused, it could probably do as much damage as an LRed.