Ultraviolet Combat Lasers
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Ultraviolet Combat Lasers
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 Research Cost: 60000
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| Lasers in ultraviolet frequencies offer massive potential for damage at long range. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| While the move to laser weapons utilizing visible light has increased their power and versatility, their shortcomings in range hamper their usefulness in long-distance conflicts. It is to ultraviolet-based combat lasers we now turn instead. Extreme ultraviolet is breathtakingly difficult to work with, because it burns through almost all matter on contact - ideal for striking against heavily-armored enemies, yes, but first we need to focus it without instantly destroying the necessary lenses and mirrors in the process. Special new dielectric mirrors, coated with multiple layers of ultra-dense, highly reflective nanomaterials, overcome this complication, enabling our latest weapons to utilize the ultraviolet spectrum without losing intensity. These laser systems are capable of shooting precise beams over long distances, to inflict massive damage. By using ultraviolet light, we have also further reduced the scattering effect of atmospheric particles, making these latest weapons even more powerful in Earth's atmosphere as well as within the vacuum of space. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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3750 | Total | 104250 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| (100%)Ultraviolet Laser Cannon • (100%)Ultraviolet Laser Batteries • (100%)Ultraviolet Arc Laser Cannon • (100%)Ultraviolet Phaser Batteries • (100%)Ultraviolet Phaser Cannon • (100%)Ultraviolet Arc Laser Batteries | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Base defensive modules will employ ultraviolet lasers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| "Without an ozone layer to protect us from ultraviolet light, life on our planet would never have developed in the first place." Chancellor Li Qingzhao, The Academy Astrophysics Seminar Series at Tsinghua University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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