Quoted By:
“The NOVEMBER RAIN is not a brawler. Compared to true warships, her armor is thin and her engines are slow. Damage control facilities are sparse given her weight-class. Few auditors would risk bringing her into knife-fighting range willingly, even with her generous offensive arsenal.
But I will have few other options in the coming months. Space combat always becomes messy inside gravity wells. Line of sight is awkwardly limited. Satellites – natural and artificial – confound both passive and active sensor arrays. I will do everything I possibly can to avoid a close-in encounter when we initiate our strike on MIZAR-VI. However, I also know that that the enemy may force my hand.
To this end, I spent the past two days testing and recalibrating the close-in weapons hidden inside the NOVEMBER RAIN’s chassis. When I finished my rounds this morning and returned to the bridge to a run a final integration check, I found another ritual card on my desk. I examined it more closely this time. Glossy, but worn by age. An inked motif that seemed strangely appropriate for the RAIN’s offensive loadout…
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>XX: JUDGEMENT [A-51/N]. “Some weapons were made to keep us honest. The A-51/N is the most recent iteration of a tried-and-tested design: a dual-stage magnetic accelerator gun capable of slinging foam-phase hydrogen rounds at a rapid clip. I have seen captains disregard this weapon before: their mangled ships burning in the cold void, trailing glowing streams of plasticized metal…”
>XVIII: THE MOON [AURORA-B]. “One of the few laser weapons that have successfully mitigated the beam diffraction problem. The AURORA-B uses a complex optical assembly to project a laser of unparalleled intensity: effective at ablating hull, but also nimble enough to intercept guided weaponry. An important distinction from other weapons in its class”
>XIX: THE SUN [???]. “I have few memories of this device despite its extensive integration with my ship’s systems. To the best my knowledge, this weapon is a collimated particle beam weapon built into the RAIN’s spinal axis. The power requirements of this weapon are enormous, suggesting incredible power…but also potential inflexibility. A weapon of this size will have no chance of striking multiple targets or intercepting guided weaponry.
- [UNSIGNED], EXECUTIVE AUDITOR, TRS NOVEMBER RAIN, AD. 2242, FEB 22, PERSONAL JOURNAL
