Great Weapon
This council has presided over the loss of over a fifth of our territory, and a 25% reduction in profitability. Most of this is due to the rise of the Holy Imperium, but even before that we had the Gith, the Ssurran, and the damned clowns. The great accomplishment was that we took the territory of the Dohwar. The Dohwar, for the love of Sigil.
This cannot continue. The Mercana will not fall under my watch, if I have to drag the rest of you to the solution. The Great Weapon is complete. I have sacrificed my own heirlooms - my father's armor, that he wore when he drove back the Psurlons that had laid siege to the Rock - to break the Imperator's fleet and liberate Miantare.
That is the only victory that we have had over the Imperium. Without me and without the weapon, we will fall. Give me access to the treasury, let me use the artifacts within, and I will end this war. Don't, and you'd best pray that I fail, because I'll be coming for you next.
Mechanics & Inner Workings
The weapon is a long tube comprising a series of mithril, adamantium, and orichalcum rings connected by linking runes inlaid with platinum, electrum, and gold leaf. The tube is connected to the compression chamber, a perfect sphere 18" in diameter made of a material created by Demenstrelos that he calls Affaloidium.
When fuel is added to the chamber, in the form of a magic item or Potentia Crystals, the chamber is sealed and the exterior runes are activated. The chamber collapses, reducing everything within the chamber into a hyper-compressed ball of pure force energy. The energy is then funneled down the tube to focus on the target.
The chamber compresses everything to the same final size, meaning that the density of the magic in the initial fuel influences the power of the attack. Potentia crystals are the minimum density required to run the weapon, and a Potentia fueled blast has the power to completely destroy a Giff Bombard.
History
Conceived by Dargaaz the Enlightened as the ultimate weapon in the war against the Holy Imperium, the Great Weapon is a masterpiece of artifice. A team of Mercana, Gith, and Elven researchers, with the help of the mad beholder Demenstrelos, developed everything from the energy conversion process to the targeting system.
Significance
The Great Weapon refers both to the weapon itself and the entire vessel that carries it. The Weapon focuses extreme amounts of magic in an instant attack, with the upper limit of the damage limited by the density of power in the objects consumed. With the sacrifice of a sufficiently powerful magic item, the weapon could shatter a planet.
The outer hull is made of orichalchum inlaid with runes made from platinum, electrum, and mithral. The different runes serve several purposes, including protection, movement, and charging of the weapons system.
The ship's interior is mostly dedicated to the weapon systems and the helm. The interior supports are adamantine while the decks are orichalcum. The main weapon is a complex device made of several entirely new alloys created for the device, bound together by runes inscribed on the surface. It is normally powered by the ship's store of Potentia Crystals.
The generator is a special design by Magitech Industries, necessary to give the ship enough power to move the mass of the weapon. A total of seven thrusters provide propulsion and steering.
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