LRed

Large Red Beam is the basic beam used by the Shivans in the Freespace 2

Weapons in Descent: FreeSpace

Primaries Secondaries Turrets Weapon Comparison Table, FS1

Weapons in FreeSpace 2

Primaries Secondaries Turrets Weapon Comparison Table, FS2

Description

Basic Shivan anti-capital ship beam weapon

Veteran Comments

Standard enough Shivan beam cannon, roughly equivalent to the BGreen or BVas, but does more sustained damage / second. Mounted on the SC Lilith making it into kind of a monitor (see Wikipedia: [1]).

Performance

Statistics

Range	4000 m
Rate of Fire	10 s
Velocity	Instant
Damage per second	3300
Damage per pulse	23 100
Against Hullplating	Excellent
Against Shields	Excellent
Against Subsystems	Excellent