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Well,CFP fire beam with duration of only about 0.02 seconds then cool down for 0.05 secs,and have burst fire time of 0.5-2 seconds and pause to recharge for 5-15 seconds.They can be fired from arrays.
I think it's good,since single beam have great pover in watts so it's easier for them to penetrate shields,and have very good track,making them effective against fighters.
Send your weapons ideas and opinions on this.
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You are saying chain-fire phasers would be better than the ordinary phasers, right?
First of all, what *is* a chain-fire phaser? Do you mean the pulse phasers from the Miranda and later the Defiant? Or do you mean that Akira special weapon from "Star Trek: Armada"?
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Hey, you're hadn't read my post! Chain Phaser is beam phaser,but it fire very short-durated beams in burst pattern!(It's like to phasers as seen in TWOK)
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Oh, they read your post. It's just difficult to understand. Please tell me that english isn't your first language.
BTW, don't take this as an insult, by any means. We've had some trouble with that before, and I don't want to drive a new member off just by explaining why no one understood him.
Except me. I know exactly what he means.
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OK...I think I get it. You're saying that the short burst phasers that the Enterprise and the Reliant fired in TWOK are better than the steady beam phasers that the Ent D fires in TNG...right?
If they could be modulated to confuse shields I suppose there would be a certain advantage. On the other hand, steady beam phasers force the shields to expend continued energy to repulse the attack.
It works like this: which ever kind of phasers the story line calls for to work better are the ones that are better.
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The TNG Tech Manual mentions various tactics used with phasers and specifically says sometimes tactical officers find that firing short bursts instead of a continuous stream is more effective against certain shield types. Therefore, effectiveness of phaser fire is probably dependent on the specific shield technology. Also, this entry suggests that the TNG phasers can fire in short bursts as well as in the typical stream.
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Say Nevod, what *is* your first language, if you don't mind telling us?
I just get this image of an old-style gatling gun with a hand crank, manned by a space-suited person on the hull of a starship screaming "remember the Alamooooooo!"
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Well, I don't think it really matters anyways. The Type-X, and probably all the phaser strips, can fire both sustained and short burst beams. The rate of fire isn't quite and high as the TWOK phasers, but you have more power and spectrums to work with. Plus the fact that a single array can emit several beams at once, you can time-on-target 2 or 3 beams to a single spot.
Speaking of which, besides the Type-X and Type-XII, what other types of the stripped phaser array are there? The Ambassadors but that predated GCS, and runabouts and Novas had them but they're too small to be Type-X.
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I still don't understand why the Ent-E has to have Type-XII. What was wrong with Type-X, and just how much better is XII over X? On the other hand, the Ent-D in Generations (with its refit) might have had Type-XII. Who knows...
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Type-XII - Prometheus, Sovereign Type-X - Akira, Galaxy, Nebula, Norway, Sabre, Steamrunner Type-IX - Ambassador, Excelsior (Lakota), Type-VIII - Cheyenne, Constellation, Excelsior, Freedom, Griffin, Intrepid, New Orleans, Niagara, Nova Type-VII - Centaur, Constitution Refit, Federation, Miranda, Soyuz Type-VI - Constitution Type-V - None that I can find. Type-IV - Danube, Oberth, shuttles
Those are the type of phasers and which ships have them, as for power - Type-X was capable of 5.1MW discharge, with the Type-IX capable of 4.8MW. I guess each type goes up 0.3MW so a Type-XII would be around 5.7MW and a Type-IV about 3.3MW. I could be way out here, by hey - do I care?
However . . . as Cheyenne-, Intrepid-, New Orleans-, Niagara-, and Nova-class ships are all new designs I'd think that they too hold Type-X phasers and not Type-VIII . . .
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akb1979, where did you find that info? It's flawed right off the bat. The Lakota didn't have any phaser strips, nor did the Constellation, the standard Excelsior, and a whole bunch of other ships you listed.
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o you really think that they do more damage?
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