Editing Superheavy Laser Weapons (section)

==Defense Laser==
[[File:DefenceLaser.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Teaching advancing Voidships to get off their fucking lawn since the 31st Millennium.]]

Defense Lasers are a common anti-voidship defensive weapons used by the Imperial Planetary Defense Forces. A gigantic laser weapon, it is a monstrous engine of destruction so large it can only be mounted on fixed platforms. They use vast amounts of power to fire, blacking out power grids for miles around with each volley. Designed for use against invading warships in orbit, they can drive away anything up to a Cruiser.

Although in rare and unorthodox cases, the Defense Laser can be mounted on the Imperator-class Titan which is big enough of mounting one as an ''anti-aircraft weapon''. That would be quite ridiculous if it wasn't for the fact that when they meant by 'aircraft', they meant multi-kilometer voidships.

Average length of Defense Laser's main laser chamber - is over 15m (with an overall weight of many tons) and this weapon has little use against ground-based targets, where its practical range equaled nearly a mile at ground height.

These massive laser weapons, housed in extensive installations on planetary surfaces, are classified as Lance weapons by voidship standards. Although able to project their powerful beams hundreds of miles outside of the planet's atmosphere, planet-based lasers require even more power than ship Lances to compensate for the diffraction of the energy beam caused by firing through the atmosphere. These power requirements can be satiated by on-site generatoria, or by drawing from the power grid of the planet's infrastructure. In many cases, the bulk of the defense laser silo's supporting machinery is built underground, adding the protection of hundreds of feet of rock to the meters-thick armored walls of the facility above.

There is at least one ancient Defense Laser that can drain a huge area of power to deliver a massive blast capable of vaporizing an entire unshielded escort ship.

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