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12/05/03 12:50 AM
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The low heat laser is the newest step backwards in technology. Strictly speaking these lasers were not in full production (both in and outside of the inner sphere) until fairly late (3065+). These lasers use advanced manufacturing techniques derived from other advanced laser systems, pulse and er, to create a laser that performs much like a standard laser but with lower heat. These have been particularly valuable for both their backwards compatiability, easily replacing many older lasers, and their utility in "downgrading" more modern designs replacing the er and pulse varieties. By 3069 nearly all factories with in the inner sphere that were previouslly producing standard lasers, have been switched over to these newer high tech equivalents, though stockpiles and periphery dealers will long garuantee an availability of the older designs.
Note the clans also have access to a Low Heat Laser, though as per most technology it is superior to the inner sphere equivalent (due to the superior technology it was derived from).
Inner Sphere:
Low Heat Small Laser
Weight: 1 ton
Criticals: 1
Heat: 0
Damage: 3
Min: -
Short: 1
Medium: 2
Long: 3
Cost: 13,000 cbills
BV: 17 (same as a er small laser)
Low Heat Medium Laser
Weight: 2 tons
Criticals: 1
Heat: 1
Damage: 5
Min: -
Short: 3
Medium: 6
Long: 9
Cost: 75,000 cbills
BV: 50
Low Heat Large Laser
Weight: 6
Criticals: 2
Heat: 5
Damage: 8
Min: -
Short: 5
Medium: 10
Long: 15
Cost: 180,000 cbills
BV: 140
Clan:
Low Heat Small Laser
Weight: 1 ton
Criticals: 1
Heat: 0
Damage: 4
Min: -
Short: 1
Medium: 2
Long: 3
Cost: 15,000 cbills
Low Heat Medium Laser
Weight: 1.5 tons
Criticals: 1
Heat: 1
Damage: 5
Min: -
Short: 3
Medium: 6
Long: 9
Cost: 80,000 cbills
Low Heat Large Laser
Weight: 5
Criticals: 2
Heat: 5
Damage: 8
Min: -
Short: 5
Medium: 10
Long: 15
Cost: 200,000 cbills
I didn't include BVs for the clan models, cause I wasn't sure just what they should be. Yes the medium laser is a killer, but all of us new it was before anyhow. Heat savings are -1 for the small, -2 for the medium, and -3 for the large. They all use inner sphere normal lasers range. Generally this means for the tonnage at best you are kinda getting a psuedo tiple heat sink (with a large laser), note they aren't signifigantly more bulky than normal lasers.
I find that 'pinpoint' accuracy during a bombing run increases proportionally with the amount of munitions used.
-Commander Nathaniel Klepper,
Avanti's Angels, 3058
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