GeHi25 long-range beam laser

The Kawazaki GeHi25 is a long-range beam laser suitable for installation on large size ships as well as space stations, intended for long-range ship-to-ship fire. The GeHi25 is unique amongst other beam laser arrays used in the Empire as it is mounted on a ball turret mount, allowing for rotation and thus a much larger firing arc than previous integrated-hull array systems. This allows the attacking of targets without the need to reposition the ship for broadsides fire, improving combat reaction speed and allowing the powerful beam laser to finally be used as a close-range weapon in addition to its long-range abilities.

The beam of the GeHi25 is a green high-powered energy beam fed by seven tributary beams and an eighth central beam, which combine trough the air of a cone-shaped electromagnetic field to form the main laser. However, the GeHi25 model is designed to eliminate the energy requirements of previous beam laser models which relied on the DenYō energy container system, limiting the amount of shots available for combat. The GeHi25 is fed directly from the capital ship's reactor, allowing for an almost unlimited amount of shots during combat scenarios. The GeHi25 system still needs to cool down for about 5 minutes after firing, however, and reports indicate that the GeHi25 system's beam is not as powerful as previous models, though the faster cooling down, greater targeting flexibility and maintained accuracy more than make up for this.

As long-range accuracy is one of the main highlights of the beam laser weapon, the GeHi25 is still as accurate as previous beam laser models, if not more. Targeting is carried out by five-man teams of operators in addition to dedicated supercomputer banks, which handle the majority of the fine targeting. The GeHi25 thus still has the same pinpoint accuracy of all other Imperial beam lasers, while still capable of incinerating straight through the armoured hulls of other vessels as if they were irrelevant.

GeHi25 stands for GeHi 2500, with the weapon to be installed on all new capital ship classes from 2500 onwards.