[Dark Hunter]

Yep.

Punisher cannon: most powerful weapon devised by humanity to date. Able to do incredible damage to entire landmasses through repeated orbital bombardment. Also can be used against super-juggernaut level ships. (Bit of overkill for anything lower... hell, it's a bit of an overkill even against the Gigas!  )

Which sparks a question in my mind, Woo: how well does the Vidyadhar stand up to the Icanus?

[Mefustae]

Is the Punisher even Inferno-canon? I mean, considering it's from an unofficial - albeit very well written - fanfic...?

[Dark Hunter]

I believe it is referred to in the techroom entry....
*goes back one page and checks his screenshot*


Hmm... no it's not. Odd, I thought it was... ah well. "Punisher" is just a name for the cannon (I think it was called the Aurora Beam originally, judging by the sound files in the VP), the cannon itself is... er, canon.

[Mefustae]

Well of course the cannon itself is inferno-canon, i'm just wondering whether it's a bit presumptuous to start calling it the 'Punisher' when it may not in fact be canon, as it doesn't seem to be.

[Darius]

The Punisher is Woo's name, if I remember correctly.

The Punisher cannon was designed first and was originally designed for planetary defense and was before the formation of the EA. (Punisher is the Icanus super beam weapon)

Also apparently the EA is not a dictatorship, but a militarised form of the GTA. So it's possibly not the "evil empire" which GTVA war propagandists are trying to portray to the masses back home. 

[aldo_14]

The Punisher is Woo's name, if I remember correctly.

The Punisher cannon was designed first and was originally designed for planetary defense and was before the formation of the EA. (Punisher is the Icanus super beam weapon)

Also apparently the EA is not a dictatorship, but a militarised form of the GTA. So it's possibly not the "evil empire" which GTVA war propagandists are trying to portray to the masses back home. 

Albiet bearing in mind the GTA was rather militarised in it's own right
From FS Ref bible

The Galactic Terran Alliance was formed many years before FreeSpace begins.  It’s largely a defense and research organization, and has few domestic influences, focusing it’s attention on matters in outer space, and the exploration thereof.

[Woomeister]

Is the Punisher even Inferno-canon? I mean, considering it's from an unofficial - albeit very well written - fanfic...?

It's INF SCP anon, but R1 though.

[Snail]

The "huge cylinder part" is in fact one beam, KappaW.

I like the beams where they are. Gives the Icanus more all-around beam coverage.
If I had designed the Icanus the Punisher would have gone on top... *shrugs*

That doesn't matter, it's got railguns everywhere. I think its armed well enough in my opinion.

I like the Punisher where it is. Putting it on top would look ugly, try imagining it (or looking at the attached)

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[Dark Hunter]

 

On second thought, that does look really bad.

Course, I wouldn't have made it look like that. More like the Punisher stuck inside the Icanus, with the actual photon emitter (the Punisher is still a photon beam cannon, albeit a very powerful one, right?) Sticking out just above the top of the Icanus... pointing forward, obviously.

Sorry, it's really hard to convey thispicture in words...

[spartan_0214]

whoa, another way to make the Icanus look bad....            

[Darius]

Something like this?

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[Colonol Dekker]

Meh, just a TCS Behemoth wannabe now, I prefer super jug, With supergun just bolted to the side.

[Darius]

The Icanus "nothing but an engine and giant battery for a super cannon" version does make it a little bit different from the Sajuuks, Behemoths, VPKs etc. out there.

[Colonol Dekker]

The TCS Behemoth is just a mobile gun with a bridge blu-tac'd to it, The icanus is an actual ship IMO with a super gun bolted to the side, which i think is more plausible 

[Dark Hunter]

Well, I had never heard of this "Behemoth" you speak of, but, yeah, that was about what I was picturing.

With the gun on top like that though I don't think it looks muck like a "gun with engines". It would if the gun was on the front (like StrattComm's Archangel-class), but not on the top, IMO.

[Snail]

It looks fine as it is, in fact, I think I just fell in love with it because of all these disgusting ideas.

[spartan_0214]

Anyone ever think of a Beam Chain-Cannon? Just set the turrets that it cycles through around the Icanus, kinda like spreading out the gun on the side, and wrapping it around the Icanus....

NOW THAT'S FIREPOWER!!!

                             

[Dark Hunter]

You mean a Gatling-Beam Cannon?




Talk to Nuke about that, it'd be a dream come true to him. 

[spartan_0214]

and mine too......

y'know, my favorite weapon in Halo: Combat Evolved was the Warthog Gatling Gun....



 

[asyikarea51]

The closest I can think of is the Gatling Laser found in this old EA game called Future Cop.

It's the only game I had which was both PC and Mac compatible. Now where did I put it...

I still like the Punisher as a single-shot weapon with HUGE power. Anime influence ftw... the biggest problem is if you size the beam radius so that it's around 1.5x the Punisher's size, you really need to distance yourself... and it might get tricky to do so if you didn't table the beam fadeout properly...