Originally posted by kietotheworld
Well now we can have another argument instead, the Lucifer's "Beam" isn't the Shivan Megafunk, its the Shian Super Laser, the Megafunk is the bigass plasma blob that comes out of Shivan Destroyers.
The tech description for the Lucifer goes something like: "The Lucifer has 3"(I think it has a turret on its rear) "flux cannons capable of taking down one of our capital ships in a few hits."
Actually, I was drawing a parallel between 'flux cannon' and 'megafunk' as being the names of tbl weapons. But you're right, they are referred to as 'flux' cannons in the FS1 tech db, which I'll admit to not having read recently.
Of course -as was pointed out before - those are replaced by beam weapons for the FS2 table (despite IIRC there being superlasers in the FS2 weapons table anyways). It's also a bit unclear exactly what a 'flux cannon' is, anyways; possibly it's just an alternate form of beam weapon.
The FS1 cutscenes do refer to the Lucifer having what is clearly a beam weapon, though (excluding the obvious vprime weapon);
[q][cut to under shot of the SD’s big gun array. It starts to reconfigure and “draw light” to itself.]
[cut to shot of one crewmember]
Crew-1: Oh, no! [like he/she is the first to realize what’s happening]
[cut back to gun]
A huge energy beam blasts out from the gun!
[cut to shot of beam tearing into the Cruiser as it gets thrown back from the blast]
[cut to shot of assault troops at window, being thrown against the window from the impact]
[cut to shot of beam making its way across the Cruiser, slicing it up]
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