Magnetic Accelerator Cannon

The MAC - Magnetic Accelerator Cannon - is a projectile based ship to ship weapon. It fires a super-dense ferric tungsten shell. The tremendous mass and velocity can cripple or obliterate an unshielded tagret on impact. Unlike most projectiles of today (i.e. Missles) the MAC round is unguided, the fireing solution must be perfect to hit the target, not an easy task in fast paced battles where the ship with the MAC and its target are moving rapidly.

One Hit Wonder
If a MAC round hits a shilded target the round and the shield go through a test of endurence. If the shield is powerful enough, it can hold off a MAC round till it looses enough momentum to be shruged off. If the MAC round wins out, the round will pierce the shields and do damage directly to the hull, though at a greatly lessned magnitude do to lost momentum.

Varients, Variables, and Statistics
The MAC is not a Rapid fire, and reload weapon, Once a round is discharged, a new round must be loaded and the Magnetic Capacitors must be recharged. Recent developments in Magnetic Field Recyclers that when coupled with Charge booster capacitors can drasticly increase the recharge time, but this has a draw back. The MACs using these recyclers and capacitors have to fire light rounds that use a ferrous core surounded by a layer of super-dense ferric tungsten. These rounds do less damage but splinter on impact spreading the damage around on a large area, and may be fired at a highter rate. A ship is recomended to carry only one MAC two at the most as the recoil from firing an off-center MAC gun can send even a mighty capital ship into a spiral.