Ion Gun 1

Ion Gun 1

Beam Cannon, Common

Electric Damage: 128

Range: 350-650

Cooldown: 8.5 seconds

Duration: 2.2 seconds

CPU: 3

A highly effective mid-range weapon. Even though level-for-level the Ion Guns have the lowest DPS of the 600-650 range weapons, the difference isn't much and the following aspects make this potentially the deadliest mid-range weapon type:
 * It never misses no matter how fast the target is, so it's actual effective DPS is fully guaranteed. The projectile and missile weapons cannot claim the same, even moderately fast ships frequently dodge their fire
 * It pierces, and does full damage to everything it hits which means tightly clustered ships will take serious damage from a set of them and key targets like Transports can't hide behind a bigger ship for protection.
 * It is immune to every defense system except shields
 * It can destroy certain enemy projectile types if they are fired along the beam path, such as Torpedoes, giving a defensive benefit.