Arcane Concept: Airship travel. · 10:43pm Jan 25th, 2020
SHIELD's latest airship, the Stormbreaker is a revolutionary new form of an airship capable of reaching greater speeds and bearing more weight than any other ship before. The biggest innovation in the design was discovered by engineer Pat N. Pending, whose studies in arcane-incorporated technology allowed him to bottle a storm.
The envelope for the Stormbreaker is much smaller than traditional airships and filled with an active stormcloud. The magical clouds create slightly less lift than other gasses, but this limitation is offset by the vast increase of available power. The storm is self-sustaining and can generate enough power to lift the craft without the use of lightening gasses or spells. It has four main thrusters, two at each end of the ship, capable of lifting more than double the Stormbreaker's own weight at maximum power. It has two further engines mounted at the Aft section for propulsion.
The stormcenter is constantly monitored to prevent an explosion. Excess power is drained into several large batteries that are also used to power the enchantments on the ship itself. If an emergency occurs, the storm can be ejected from the envelope itself and the reserve power can be used to land the vessel itself.
Its offensive weaponry includes powerful lightning generators on the underside to provide precise fire on ground-bound targets, three repulsor generators to function as point defense for each thruster, and two large ballistic cannons mounted on the Port and Starboard sides that can rotate a full 360 degrees. Due to its smaller size, the envelope was built partially inside the airship, affording it a greater degree of protection than other ships like it. The top is less well armored, as they need to be able to expel the stormcenter at any given notice. The lack of overhead guns and armor makes it vulnerable to overhead attacks.
The Stormbreaker's corrects the two biggest flaws in airship design; the hard limit on how much material can be lifted and the relative lack of speed. It is still a prototype, and no doubt the design will go on to revolutionize the industry.
Standard repulsars cannons locally are double-barred and capable of firing multiple rounds per second. Each beam is composed of cuncossivr energy, and mimics the effects of ballistic fire with having any shell. This makes it hard to craft a spell blocking it.
The Iron Mage's version uses three instead of two, and they can swivel in multiple directions, maintain force at multiple levels, and draw upon Pegasus magic instead of generic mana. This decreases their use as a weapon but enables her to fly.