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What's on the front of it? [You missed the next line.]

TL;DRThe front of the ship is one giant beam weapon made of twelve barrels, plus a large suite of point-defense turrets and flak whose exact number is still debated, grouped in clusters so they're visible.

Cloud ImperiumVehicle/Ship Designer

Oh, yeah. Well, I mean, we did see it had some pilot weapons. It has a beam weapon of, yes, size... It is the entire front of the ship.

John CreweVehicle team

Indeterminable size.

Jared HuckabyHost, Community

It's a beam weapon with 12 barrels. It's six on each side.

Cloud ImperiumVehicle/Ship Designer

Yeah, but it does combine to one giant beam. It's a beam on a capital ship of a scale... well, the size of the ship, as a random data point, is over 750 meters, and then we just have a giant beam that is the front of the ship. So... yes. I mean, we can give it a size, but fine. I'll also cover: it has a significant suite of PDTs, flak, and other automated defense systems. There is still hot debate about the specific number of this. It's either going to be 42 plus 1 or 43. We had an interesting problem when we were actually doing the PDT and flak distribution across the ship. Because they were so small, you couldn't actually see them. So what we ended up having to do was make clustered banks of them, just so that they were actually readable on the exterior. And there's just so many, it meant that we had nice little defensive clusters so they could cover each other as well quite nicely.

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Published on this date.24 May 2026