Suggestion for new guns

Background story

The various DK ships spreaded over Sirius are a danger to the free trading routes and the safety of the house systems. In a joined meeting the representatives of the various houses and representatives from the Corsairs and Outcasts agreed to invest time and money in developing new, high level weapons to counter the DK threat.
To speed up the development scientists worked together in one big scientific lab somewhere in the California system.

After a few months the scientists presented the fruits of their labor:
Buckshot II
Firekiss Mk III
HornViper Mk III
Kraken Type 3
Salmanca Mk III
Skyblast C
Tizona al Sayyid
Wyrm Type 3

Weapon descriptions:

Name: Buckshot II
Description: This is a particle-based weapon which, though delivers significant damage at a decent fire rate, requires enormous amounts of energy. This weapon is most effective against graviton shields, and weakest against molecular shields.
Class: 10
Hull Damage: 626
Shield Damage: 307
Range: 750 meters
Speed: 750
Refire Rate: 4
Energy Usage: 183

Name: Firekiss Mk III
Description: This is a plasma-based weapon that delivers large amounts of damage, but cannot be refired quickly. This weapon is most effective against graviton shields, and weakest against molecular shields.
Class: 10
Hull Damage: 1565
Shield Damage: 782
Range: 600 meters
Speed: 500
Refire Rate: 2
Energy Usage: 304

Name: Hornviper Mk III
Description: This is a tachyon-based weapon that has the longest range of all energy-based weapons, but requires enormous amounts of power to fire. This weapon is most effective against molecular shields, and weakest against positron shields.
Class: 10
Hull Damage: 347
Shield Damage: 173
Range: 700 meters
Speed: 700
Refire Rate: 6
Energy Usage: 122

Name: Kraken Type 3
Description: This is a particle-based weapon which, though delivers significant damage at a decent fire rate, requires enormous amounts of energy. This weapon is most effective against graviton shields, and weakest against molecular shields.
Class: 10
Hull Damage: 938
Shield Damage: 469
Range: 700 meters
Speed: 700
Refire Rate: 4
Energy Usage: 183

Name: Salamanca Mk III
Description: This is a neutron-based weapon which, though very energy efficient has a shorter effective range than most energy weapons. This weapon is most effective against molecular shields, and weakest against positron shields.
Class: 10
Hull Damage: 782
Shield Damage: 390
Range: 600 meters
Speed: 600
Refire Rate: 4
Energy Usage: 146

Name: Skyblast C
Description: This is a photon-based weapon which, though providing a high refire rate, requires enormous amounts of energy to deliver a significant damage output. This weapon is most effective against positron shields, and weakest against graviton shields.
Class: 10
Hull Damage: 390
Shield Damage: 195
Range: 600 meters
Speed: 750
Refire Rate: 8
Energy Usage: 92

Name: Tizona al Sayyid
Description: This is a pulse-based weapon that does enormous amounts of shield damage, but virtually no hull damage. This weapon is most effective against positron shields, and weakest against graviton shields.
Class: 10
Hull Damage: 62
Shield Damage: 1,987
Range: 600 meters
Speed: 600
Refire Rate: 4
Energy Usage: 146

Name: Wyrm Type 3
Description: This is a tachyon-based weapon that has the longest range of all energy-based weapons, but requires enormous amounts of power to fire. This weapon is most effective against molecular shields, and weakest against positron shields.
Class: 10
Hull Damage: 1043
Shield Damage: 522
Range: 700 meters
Speed: 700
Refire Rate: 3,03
Energy Usage: 245

During the research and development, the GMG scientist developed also a new type of gun which can turn the whole balance back in their favor. Due to this forseen effect they did not share this information with their colleagues, but kept it hidden until they were back at their base. After the presentation, a representative of the Rheinland scientists left the room in anger, claiming that the GMG has stolen their information on plasma cannons.

Name: Skywrecker A
Description: This is a plasma-based weapon that delivers large amounts of damage, but cannot be refired quickly. This weapon is most effective against graviton shields, and weakest against molecular shields.
Class: 10
Hull Damage: 2850
Shield Damage: 2125
Range: 750 meters
Speed: 750
Refire Rate: 1,5
Energy Usage: 490

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Originally posted by NewPol
Dunno....

We have a lot of good level 10 weapons but level 9 are too weak specialy against DK's.

Why not develop level 9 weapons meating the specifications required to kill the fast moving DK fighters ? and maybe faster level 10 to better aimed the Aliens ?

The values are the same as the normal lvl 9 guns, only i multiplied the damage values by 1.6 and the energy values by 1.5.

The skywrecker a does a hell lot of damage, but if you look at the energy required and the refire rate, you cannot use it like you can with a ppc in combat.

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Originally posted by Marshal Cunningham
The only concern I would have is the unoriginallity of one of the names (I know, big dea :P). The pulse weapon line of the Corsairs contains the Rapier and Tizona del Cid. You need to find a new name for the next weapon. El Cid was a Spanish hero if I'm not mistaken (and tizona is sword), so I'm not sure how "al Sayyid" would be topping that in a Spanish-influenced weapon line...you'd need to go to a more grandiose level for a good name (don't ask me for suggestions though ^^). Otherwise the very idea of these new guns as terrific. I want a Drake D plasma cannon, but that would only be level nine I think (but still something I'd use :D). Very awesome, I hope it works out

@OP: Just out of curiosity, would adding weapons to the mod at all run the risk of a char wipe? I was under the impression that only big changes could require that. Maybe the next version sometime down the road will just be a massive update of tiny freatures like these that run little chance of having bugs.

(btw, that Skywrecker is making me drool...give it a fiery gold or red effect plz plz plz. I want a slow-firing, energy guzzling super gun so I can intimidate noob opponents and practice my aim (it's a useless gun unless you hit with it)! I think I'll cry if this fails ;()

Al Sayyid = El Sid in arabic.