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Ok, So lets say I wanted to put together a purely Conical text of Turbolasers. Like, I was making a book along the lines of “So you want to buy a TurboLaser?”

I have seen vast amounts of information on the Nature* of Turbolasers, ((Mainly on the main website, which has been helpful))of their power settings, powerlevels, etc etc. But what I have not been able to find is a good list of all the different Types of TurboLasers and their corresponding PowerSettings.

It’s just a habit of mine to try and archive things and make Databases of specific topics, and for some time I have wanted to make an accurate of all the types of information about a TurboLaser you can get, Exmp:

Type of TurboLaser: (Light, Med, Heavy, Quad, Dual, Battery sizes))
Size??? ((how much space on a ship would it take up))
Energy used ???
Possible Settings/EnergyLevels ???

I have done research, and I have a fairly wide list of all the Types of TurboLasers, but so far finding specific information about them ((That doesn’t conflict with one another)) is more difficult.

Well the Quads on the Acclamator had a yield of 200 Gigatons. And I believe those are a MTL Quad by the Empires standards.

Unfortunatly I don't have my AOTC:ICS handy so I can't offer anything more constructive.

Lasers cannons used for point defense on Acclamatiors: yeild = 6 megatons.

And acclaimator carries 24 of said weapon.

The TF core ship has 280 light laser cannons. Yield= 8 kilotons.

Crossroads Inc. wrote:Type of TurboLaser: (Light, Med, Heavy, Quad, Dual, Battery sizes))
Size??? ((how much space on a ship would it take up))
Energy used ???
Possible Settings/EnergyLevels ???

I think only "true" types would be light, medium and heavy. a quad TL (for example) would be a quad (M)TL battery in single (quad) mount, it's a lot simple to say QTL (Single, Dual, Quad , etc. tells how many gun you have per mount(AKA turret)).

For power levels, we know Acclamator quad MTLs have max. yield of 200 GT (though I don't know that's per gun or per turret).

Probably the reason why its so scarce is because its so functionally variable (in terms of output "levels", classification, and whatnot.) The 'heavy turbolasers' on a Venator for example are not neccesarily the same as the heavy TLS on an ISD. Or the HTLs on the support destroyer. I suspect the same is true for the Executor.

As for outputs.. they can generally vary the power level of the blast to rather LARGE degrees (many orders of magnitude.) - witniss the Death STar's superlaser, which can fire a "low-power' ship-killing burst up to a 'full-power' - "scatter the planet's mass at high speed" shot.