Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/Particle Expeller

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The Particle Expeller is one of the Alliance of Hawke's experimental vehicles. planned to be voiced by

History
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Originally used for peaceful applications, particle accelerator technology nevertheless managed to catch the attention of the Alliance military, who became interested in its potential weaponization. This would lead directly to the Proton Collider and its associated technology, which would go on to prove to be some of the most devastating weapons in the Alliance arsenal during the Horde's Exodus.

Particle accelerators did continue to be used in peaceful applications; a mundane example would be that of cathode ray tubes found in television sets. Particle accelerators also continued to be used for the purposes of advancing scientific understanding in various physics experiments. Above the interactions involving the most simplest nuclei, namely hydrogen, scientists also conducted experiments involving heavier nuclei, such as iron and gold.

The cost of constructing and running particle accelerators, however, is not cheap. As such, in an ambitious bid to allow them to conduct particle accelerator experiments while also reducing the strain on their coffers, Vinland Physics Labs leveraged the Alliance military's interest in weaponizing particle accelerator technology and entered into a partnership with them.

The agreement was this; Vinland would develop a weaponizable particle accelerator system that the Alliance Forces could use on the battlefield, and in return, the Alliance military would provide funding and allow people from Vinland to study the results. The fruit of this partnership was the XM-61A Particle Expeller, a high-energy cyclic particle accelerator strapped to an obsolete GVAW Ironforge chassis, not only a deadly weapon but also a tool to further the understanding of Alliance science.

The Particle Expeller contains in its looping turret structure a series of extremely powerful electromagnets, which accelerate a microscopic projectile, weighing 50 nanograms, to about 90% of the speed of light. At such speeds, the projectile impacts its target with immense energy, easily blowing through the thickest of armor without difficulty. Meanwhile, most of the considerable momentum is absorbed in a special inertially-powered generator, which recycles the power to use it for the Expeller's operation. Despite this system, the recoil is still ferocious. In addition to standard iron projectiles, shots coated in unstable superheavy elements are occasionally deployed, as such shots can cause widespread devastation due to their weight and constant atomic decay. It was a win-win situation for all involved (except the enemy); Cambridge was able to conduct particle accelerator experiments with someone else paying the bill, and the Alliance military had an undeniably deadly anti-tank weapon.