No, your eyes do not deceive you. That is indeed a Gatling Railgun, I believe it’s the first of it’s kind on the SP Website. A five-barreled heavy brute of a turret, it’s caliber isn’t as high as most of our other toy- i mEAN WEAPONs, but it still packs quite the punch; Capable of sending five 250mm. APCR Tungsten Spikes at over 6,000 meters per second of initial muzzle velocity every two seconds, it revolutionizes the normally low fire rate of the traditional Railgun. In our weapons department, we’ve created a difference between Railguns and Railcannons; If it’s caliber is 120mm. or lower, and uses conventional electromagnetic energy to fire a projectile, then it’s a Railgun. Alternatively, if it’s caliber is higher than 120mm, AND it utilizes electromagnetic shock-blast energy instead, it’s a Railcannon.

The main problem in terms of increasing rate of fire on a weapon like a Railgun or RailCannon is barrel heating. If the barrel overheats, it may damage the interior of the weapon, therefore decreasing it’s effectiveness in combat. Of course, when we’re not actually fighting, we play the age old game of “How many watermelons can ’insert-force-to-be-reckoned-with’ vaporize?” Getting back on track, the issue was barrel overheatage. The solution? Give the gun more barrels! This worked out surprisingly well, as each barrel fires once every two seconds, which is just enough time in between shots for the RailCannon to cool down slightly.

The auto loader mechanism inside the turret was extremely complicated for Pyrhpan to create, as it had to feed each barrel it’s own round; seeing that we couldn’t just make a single Railgun module with five barrels in a Gatling Gun style, we soon figured out that each barrel had to contain it’s own Railgun module, each of which would be individually fired to spread out the heating much more effectively. Similar to the “RailPiercer” Double-Barreled RailCannon we released a while ago, it too has two different Railgun modules, so that the barrels heat up by themselves and not at the same time, allowing each other to cool down before the next one fires. Getting back to the autoloader, it waits for the current module to fire, and then, through perfect calibration and dead-accurate timing, it loads the next barrel with another shot as it’s spinning, which proved to be a very effective, yet equally difficult task to accomplish. A technological marvel among Pyrhpan’s arsenal, it certainly proves what can really be done with enough ingenuity.

Now of course, we couldn’t just leave the turret as is. Sure, a 250mm. Gatling RailCannon is terrifying enough, but we had lots of extra space inside the turret, so we added 8 Anti-Ship Cruise Missile Silos, each with an MMT Module for an infinite amount of missiles per silo. (of course, this can’t really be done in SP, so you’ll have to be satisfied with just 8 lol)

You may be asking yourself, “Pyrhpan, what in the ever loving christ would anyone in the right mind ever need to use this monstrosity of a weapon for?” Well, to answer this question as honestly as I can:

We don’t know. All we can do is be prepared, and until threat comes, you better believe those watermelons are getting ionized.

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