Warp Accelerated Railgun
The Warp Accelerated Railgun or W.A.R. was born out of the need to have a high impact weapon, that could breach shield and armor. A weapon that was designed to help neutral the rising and always prevalent Borg threat.
The WAR uses the latest in micro rail run and warp technologies. The weapon is known for its deadly ability to fire a specially designed slug at speeds exceeding warp 2. The power base of the WAR is a micro-quantum singularity reactor that was integrated into stock of the weapon. Surrounding the barrel is a miniaturized Warp Coil that allows for faster than light weapon's fire. Within the trigger and weapon housing, along with the need firing equipment is a micro replicator that fabricates the weapon's organic/metallic polymer gel rounds inside the weapon's firing chamber. Alongside that technology is a subspace shield generator. It is the combined use of these four critical pieces of technology that allows the WAR to operate.
The components and a brief description of their function follow:
- The reactor - supplies the necessary power need to energize the subspace field generator shield and to cycle the warp coils that fire the round.
- The warp coil - allows for the acceleration needed for faster than light acceleration of the round.
- The subspace shield generator - Shields the round to protect the round from disintegrating during travel
- The micro replicator - fabricates the round in the firing chamber to allow for continual use of the weapon.
The WAR uses an external weapons mount rail system that allows for the attachment of many instruments that could be of use, such as:
- Tactical flashlights
- Laser sights or tactical sights, such as Infrared Targeting and night optics
The WAR has one major design flaw, the weapon tends to overheat after the firing of three or four warp rounds. To compensate for this the weapon automatically switches to a secondary firing setting that disables the warp coil and uses a standard rail coil which allows the weapon to fire the same standard round at seven times the speed of sound. Newer variants of the weapon integrate a liquid nitrogen cooling system that allows the weapon to cool and fire the warp accelerated round more readily and frequently before overheating occurrs.
The organic/metallic polymer gel rounds were designed to break apart once the subspace shield fails, usually upon impact of the round. This allows the gel round to impact and transfer the built kinetic energy to the target, causing massive damage with out a large amount of secondary impact.
This weapon is still in the development stage and is somehow in use by Section 31 operatives.
The W.A.R. was first seen in the USS Rosenante and USS Boudicca joint mission, Personal Logs
The Warp Accelerated Railgun was introduced by Matthew Locke
