Lance Cannon
The spinal armament of the Boson - Class Destroyer. A large Photon Cannon, it is extremely powerful. However, it is not a High Energy Turret Hardpoint and it cannot be swapped out for alternate loadouts as it is too embedded in the ship.
Like the Oblivion Assault Gun, the Lance Cannon works by annihilating electron-positron pairs in an antimatter annihilation chamber inside the weapon itself and then directing the radiation out in a tight, dense beam of extremely high power. Although it is called a photon cannon, it also fires other particles that are not photons. These can also contribute to its damage, but all of these particles are massless.
The Lance Cannon is larger than the OAG because it has a much larger annihilation chamber, allowing it to annihilate larger numbers of particles in a short time. This is also partly why the frontal section of the Boson is very large - the Lance Cannon and supporting systems takes up a lot of that space.
The existance of the Lance Cannon leaves an interesting doctrinal choice for commanders and captains using the Boson. They can either engage in a broadside and be more capable of rapid movement or engage with primarily the Lance Cannon - facing forwards and using the very long range of the Lance Cannon to destroy enemies larger than the Boson. This allows them to punch significantly above their weight at the cost of impeded mobility or engage enemy forces of similar size but large numbers. This is somewhat why the ship is classified as so multirole, it has at least one weapon to counter most targets and doctrine.
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