Super Weapon Lore (Citadel Expansion)

typeID 40631
"Holy Destiny" Electromagnetic Lance
Doomsday_Beam
While the Amarr Empire had first developed the "Reaper" directed energy device, the Gallente were the first to modify the concept into a focused, static energy beam they called a "Lance".  In truth, the Amarr had not entirely cracked the problem of holding this particular form of pseudo-stable energy on a single point before the Gallente came up with a method of focusing the beam reliably. The Amarr were quite taken with the solution the Federation had developed and at once produced their own electromagnetic variation codenamed "Holy Destiny".

typeID 40632
"Divine Harvest" Electromagnetic Reaper
Doomsday_Slash
The Amarr Empire"s crash program of capital ship development included an intense effort to reverse-engineer recovered Drifter technology. While falling short of a full understanding of the weapons used by the inscrutable Drifters, the research did bear fruit in a new form of directed energy beam that weapons scientists began calling the "Reaper". The Imperial Navy designated the device "Divine Harvest" but the tag stuck to this weapon type when, inevitably, other empires acquired the basic concept and developed their own variations.

typeID 40633
Bosonic Field Generator
Doomsday_Cone
The Society of Conscious Thought has long been at the forefront of making new technologies available to capsuleers but their decision to release certain types of spacetime weaponry on the open market represents a significant escalation in the level of power that the Society is willing to place in the hands of independent pilots. The Bosonic Field Generator provides a means to massively distort localized spacetime at short ranges, placing enormous stresses on any object in the affected area. In practical terms, the device is a weapon that can literally tear apart ships caught in its kill zone.

typeID 40634
Gravitational Transportation Field Oscillator
Doomsday_HOG
The Society of Conscious Thought has long been at the forefront of making new technologies available to capsuleers but their decision to release certain types of spacetime weaponry on the open market represents a significant escalation in the level of power that the Society is willing to place in the hands of independent pilots. The Gravitation Transportation Field Oscillator is a remarkable device that can move objects through a localized wormhole created by setting up gravitational field resonances at the origin and destination target points.



typeID 41439
"Iron Pike" Kinetic Lance

The Caldari Navy"s weapons scientists were slightly puzzled that their Amarr allies had not created a simplified, focused version of the "Reaper" before  the Federation but attributed this to the legendarily methodical and cautious approach of imperial scientists. There was some truth to this, as the Amarr had simply not yet managed to hold the beam reliably on a single target point. The State managed to independently solve the problem of holding a focused beam of the pseudo-stable energy and the modifications necessary to create the "Iron Pike" Kinetic Lance were soon made.

typeID 41440
"Phalarica" Thermal Lance

The Gallente Federation was the first of the other empires to acquire the "Reaper" directed energy beam technology developed principally by the Amarr Empire. Seeing an opportunity to modify the device into a powerful variant focused along a specific target line, the Federation"s weapon labs came up with a capital level "Thermal Lance" that they dubbed the "Phalarica". The Amarr were quick to see the potential and, after analyzing the focusing method used by the Gallente, quickly created their own variant of the weapon, followed swiftly by the other empires.

typeID 41441
"Geiravor" Explosive Lance

The Republic Security Services were so concerned by reports of major advances in directed and focused capital energy weapons development in the other empires that they recommended a covert acquisition program to Sanmatar Maleatu Shakor. In contrast to this aggressive approach, the Sanmatar tasked the Republic Justice Department to use its considerable contacts with the Gallente Federation to overcome the hesitancy created by past tensions and border encounters between the two empires. As a result of this open policy, President Jacus Roden directed the Federation Navy to share its "Lance" technology with the Republic Fleet and the "Geiravor" Explosive Lance variant was quickly developed.

typeID 41442
"Cold Wind" Kinetic Reaper

Through weapons technology agreements long maintained in the mutual interests of the Caldari State and Amarr Empire, the "Reaper" device created by the Amarr"s weapons scientists was soon passed on to the Caldari, for a suitable quid pro quo, and the State modified the specific energy output so as to produce their own favored kinetic effect at the impact point. In an allusion to Caldari mythology, the weapon was designated "Cold Wind" for the powerful animistic spirit that was said to cut down trees and soldiers alike when it blew at its fiercest.

typeID 41443
Doomsday_Slash_Gallente

Gallente Federation intelligence agencies were not slow in responding to the massive efforts of the Amarr Empire to develop capital ships and weapons fit to meet the threat of the Drifters, and any other emergent threats that might use similar weapons and battle doctrines. Consequently, the Federation Navy soon acquired the basic principles of the "Reaper" beam technology and developed their own thermal energy variation. This weapon was designated "Guillotine" in reference to bladed execution weapon once used by the Gallente Federation"s homeworld precursor, the Garoun Empire.

typeID 41444
"Jormungandr" Explosive Reaper

While the Minmatar Republic took a relaxed attitude to the initial Drifter incursions, particularly as these entities appeared focused on the Republic"s Amarr foes, the Minmatar military were extremely interested in developments in capital ship technology and weapons. Through one means or another the necessary acquisitions of data and exemplar technologies were made and the Minmatar developed an explosive energy variation of the "Reaper" directed beam technology that the Amarr had first developed.