NCCV: Neutronium Core Combat Vehicle
Ultratech/Transapientech combat swarm weapon employing a stabilized neutronium structure and secondary femtotech weapons.
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NCCV: Neutronium Core Combat VehicleUltratech/Transapientech combat swarm weapon employing a stabilized neutronium structure and secondary femtotech weapons. |
The primary structure of the NCCV unit is a spherical mass of stabilized neutronium 4cm in diameter and massing some 2x10^12kg. The sphere is honeycombed with gamma-ray frequency optical processing circuits supporting an SI:1 level mind that has been savant-focused on strategy and combat tactics.
Using the high strength and superconducting properties of neutronium, each NCCV is also able to store up to 2x1015 Kilowatt-hours of energy within its own mass. The outer surface of the unit consists of a layer of phased-array laser optics operating in gamma or X-ray frequencies combined with a 'fly's eye' optical sensing and energy receiver system sensitive across a wide range of frequencies. Micro- channels etched into various sections of the outer surface contain a wide array of femtotech infection weapons embedded in single atoms held in magnetic suspension.
At the core of each NCCV is a Class II Diametric Drive unit constructed of ultra-dense negative matter held in magnetic confinement. By magnetically exerting tension forces on the negative matter sphere at its heart, the NCCV is able to accelerate at an exponentially increasing rate in any direction required.
Due to its neutronium structure, the NCCV can operate as its own reusable kinetic kill warhead, gamma-ray laser power source, and high speed processing core all at the same time. Equipped with a Class II drive it can withstand enormous accelerations, and rapidly achieve very high velocities, before having to disengage and restart the drive due to acceleration stress. Fully charged, it can generate X- ray or gamma frequency laser energies equivalent to 200,000 times the total energy output of Information Age Terran civilization and maintain this output for up to a standard hour of continuous firing. If its energy resources are depleted, the unit can optically network with other units in the vicinity using its sensor/receiver array and recharge its reserves, either from other nearby units with power to spare or from a central control node relaying laser energy via intermediate units. Finally, by deploying its cache of femtotech weaponry, boosting individual devices into a target on a low power propulsion beam, the NCCV can infect and subvert a targets atomic structure into a weapon of almost any size desired.
NCCVs have four primary operational modes:
a) Reusable kinetic kill vehicle: Due to its great density, the NCCV can pass at high speed through nearly all forms of conventional matter with virtually no damage to itself. Typically a swarm of NCCV units will deploy in a 'cross-fire' or 'buckshot' pattern as they approach an objective and then proceed to make one or more high-speed passes through the target, severely damaging or neutralizing it. In extreme situations, individual NCCVs can purposely collide with each other, destroying themselves in the process but releasing a destructive energy pulse of considerable magnitude.
b) High frequency radiation weapon: Using a portion of its energy reserves, an NCCV unit traveling in close proximity to a target will radiate gamma or X-ray energies toward the target at a level sufficient to severely incapacitate or destroy all biological and cybernetic entities within the target zone.
c) High energy laser platform: Using the laser emitter array on its outer surface, the unit can fire multiple high-energy laser beams in several directions at once. Combined with its sensor array and its spherical shape, an NCCV is able to 'see in all directions, shoot in all directions'.
d) Femtoweapon infection vector: Using a low energy laser boost from its transmitter array, the NCCV can boost femtoweapon infused atoms into a target, thereby infecting it. Standard combat units carry a range of conversion, implosion, and radiation replicator devices, each programmable at the units discretion for a range of uses from generating a decoy energy burst, to disabling a single individual, to detonating a star. If one or more NCCV units choose to suicide- collide they may program their stocks of femtoweapons for delayed activation and then release them at the moment of collision, leaving an expanding cloud of randomly activating femto-infection behind them.
Note: The NCCV unit is capable of operating in multiple operational modes simultaneously, for example impacting a target at several hundred kilometers per second while radiating high energy X-rays, firing gamma-frequency lasers in several directions, and launching femto-replicators into those portions of the target not likely to be as severely damaged by the initial assault.
