Gluon Cannon

The Gluon Cannon is the main weaponry of the Pearl-class star dreadnoughts. It's really effective against energy shields or organic matter.

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The Gluon Cannon is a high tech and high damage weapon created by the Q'ak scientists to help in the fight against the Galactic Federation. It works by creating a ball of ionized gluon particles which annihilate any energy or tissue. It can destroy aproximadately an area bigger than Italy. It's really expensive and to cause the quantum disturbances it's needed a 5 sec cooldown.

Gluons
(Taken from Wikipedia) A gluon (/ˈɡluːɒn/) is an elementary particle that acts as the exchange particle (or gauge boson) for the strong force between quarks. It is analogous to the exchange of photons in the electromagnetic force between two charged particles. In layman's terms, they "glue" quarks together, forming hadrons such as protons and neutrons.

In technical terms, gluons are vector gauge bosons that mediate strong interactions of quarks in quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Gluons themselves carry the color charge of the strong interaction. This is unlike the photon, which mediates the electromagnetic interaction but lacks an electric charge. Gluons therefore participate in the strong interaction in addition to mediating it, making QCD significantly harder to analyze than quantum electrodynamics (QED).

Weapon Operation
The Gluon cannon requires a crew of 300+ crew due to the complexity of the gun. during the cooldown before firing, a beam of gamma radiation is injected on the firing chamber. The gamma radiation then ricochets over the composed surface of the chamber. After that, the target, a micro piece of tungstenium, is inserted on the chamber. During the 2 second mark, a ion beam strucks the tungstenium from 18 different launching ports, creating a chain reaction that interacts with the gaseous mixture on the chamber. The temperature reaches almost 30 million °C, propelling the tungstenium remnants, along with a massive ball of ionized gluons against the target. The round is a bit slow, but it compensate on destructive power

Users
Interdimensional Alliance (since 2034)

Q'ak starfleet (since 2037)

Inkling Navy (since 2034)

ESCS Infinity (since 2035)