Shawn Farrell's definitions

particle beam cannon

Used on ships from gunships to dreadnoughts, particle beam cannons are some of the most effective weapons developed. Smaller ships like gunships and corvettes have few anti-capital cannons, and more anti-fighter cannons. Larger ships employ multiple anti-capital cannons, which make for spectacular ship battles.

The particle beam cannon was only seen in the Lucifer in FreeSpace.

by Shawn Farrell May 5, 2004

impact rifle

A futuristic weapon with nearly limitless ammunition. It uses electro-magnetism to accelerate a mass, which can tear through several layers of armor. The recoil from one of these is higher than most other rifles.

The batallion of soldiers equipped with impact rifles made swiss cheese of that line of tanks.

by Shawn Farrell May 5, 2004

clockworks

Artificial soldiers created by the Nazi Empire in the 1990s. The name derives from the managerie of gears located at the joins of the clockworks. Look like rusty skeletons, with haunting, emerald green eyes.

Thousands of clockworks stormed the Reichspalace in Berlin in order to overthrown the Fuhrer.

by Shawn Farrell May 5, 2004

planet smasher

Enormous interstellar warships designed for one purpose: destroying worlds. They must be escorted by literal fleets, for they lack their own strong defensive systems. The energy one planet smasher uses could run a system for several years.

Planet smashers are the ultimate weapon.

by Shawn Farrell May 5, 2004

Klendathu

Homeworld of the Arachnids. At the beginning of the Bug-Human War, humanity tried a massive assault straight at the homeworld. Operating under the decapitation strategy, Operation Bughouse was a major failure, resulting in hundreds of thousands of casualties.

Big K took hundreds of thousands of human lives.

by Shawn Farrell May 5, 2004

San Andreas

A fault line that spans a length of roughly eight hundred miles through California. The San Andreas fault marks a transform boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate. Massive earthquakes occur on this fault line.

Contrary to what ignorant kids think, San Andreas actually exists in the REAL world as a fault line.

by Shawn Farrell November 15, 2004

Skynet

A military AI computer network created by Cyberdyne Systems that gains sentience and begins a genocidal war against humanity when US military officials try to pull the plug on the project. Sends two Terminators back in time, one to destroy opposition leader John Connor's mother before Connor is born, and one to eliminate Connor ten years later.

Skynet's undoing was its use of humans to dispose of bodies in its death camps.

by Shawn Farrell November 15, 2004