Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/Nuke Cannon

"Behold, the Bringer of Light."

-Nuke Cannon

The Nuke Cannon is the Empire's own long-range artillery, capable of firing tactical nuclear shells over long range which are extremely destructive against all ground targets. This is planned to be voiced by

Tactical analysis

 * We will be generous: The largest land-based mobile artillery piece ever constructed, the Nuke Cannon will shatter any structure or destroy massive numbers of enemy vehicles with a single blast. It will just about eliminate everything unfortunate enough to be one of its targets.
 * Behold, the bringer of light: However, in order to fire this monstrous weapon, the Nuke Cannon must need a second to deploy, and also a second to pack up, in order to stabilize the immense recoil of firing such a massive weapon. While deployed, it will unleash destruction on all, when on the move, it is helpless against enemy attacks.
 * Brighter than the sun: Nuke Cannon crews can also fire neutron cluster shells. Compared to their conventional shells the Neutrons deals no damage but saturate a much larger area in radiation that instantly kills most infantry in it, even infantry inside garrisons, and kills vehicle crews, leaving them open for their forces to take if they can stomach the what left of the crew inside. Though thaire small supplies of these shells means that crews can only fire them periodically.
 * Careful, she's fragile: Formidable as they may be, Nuke Cannons are at the mercy of aircraft. In addition, an inability to fire on the move, lack of armour, and a snail like speed all constitute weaknesses of the Nuke.

History
"Political power grows from the barrel of a gun."

-...

To paint a picture of the Elswords love of overwhelming firepower, all one must do is look at the Type-45 Self-Propelled Siege Cannon, commonly known as Meteor.

It was a complete and utter drain on resources to produce, maintain, and transport. It required special munitions and placing at all times to function. One could have easily been replaced by over twenty smaller artillery systems, each one capable of spreading fire over a similar area range and being less expensive to use overall. It is perhaps the most horrendously terrible and wasteful machine in the world, comparable to the epic units. But, in the end, none of that mattered.

What mattered was that the self-proclaimed Nuke Cannon could wipe out an entire city.

The Nuke Cannon, though prior to the Empire's discovery of nuclear technology it was simply called the Armageddon Cannon, was an end-game display of utter desperate power, the trump card in the Elsword's hand before the nukes came. From the very ground up, it was not truly a vehicle at all - it was a massive, 800mm cannon that just required treads to move it around. There is no subtlety in how it's used, there is no pretense of any kind of science behind the most basic of artillery charting and gun maintenance - it does not use satellites from orbit, complex rocketry designs, wave-force energy, or even radioactive ray weapons.

It is a giant gun, and where it hits, the ground and everything on it disappears. By the start of the War Against the MLA, a total of 400 Meteor Cannons had been built and put into the field. They were the final symbol of Elsword armored might, and thousands would die to protect even one from being damaged or taken by the (insert). They were giants of warfare, and the earth trembled with every word they spoke. And once the Empire had discovered nuclear weaponry and made nuclear shells, it truly came to be synonymous with "doomsday".

But despite its power both the Royal Guards, fearing the gun's indiscriminate power and radiation harming their troops, and the Experimental Division, seeing it as a weapon fitted for brutes, refuses to use the Nuke Cannon and instead replaced it with the Mobile Barracks and Hammer Cannon respectively.

Guardians of the Tacitus

 * Tomahawk/Sirius(Aquila)
 * Bishop (Alliance)
 * Sabretooth Missile Artillery (ADI)
 * Raiden MPRS/Wave-Force Artillery (Protectorate)
 * Athena Cannon (Andora)
 * Nuke Cannon (Empire)
 * Hammer Cannon (Harvin Experimental Command)
 * Primus (Community)

Destroyers of Balthazar

 * V-3 Launcher (Voshkod)
 * V-4 Launcher (Gorizont Division)
 * SSM Launcher (Brotherhood)
 * Specter (Marked of Asmodia)
 * Kondensator (Horde)
 * Luna (MLA)
 * V-2 Launcher (Encantadia)
 * Firestorm Artillery (Collective)
 * Devastator Warship (Scrin)

Neutrals

 * Glass Cannon (Coalition)
 * Forgefiend (Heralds)
 * Hellcannon (Path Of Khorne)
 * Jericho Cannon (Order)
 * M55 "Husky" Artillery (Survivors)
 * Borealis (Syndicate)
 * Dominator (Conglomerate)
 * Manticore (Legion)

Bonus Factions

 * M6 Dreamweaver Rocket (ASA)
 * Voidrain Artillery (Bastion)
 * Tactical Artillery Creep (Rangers)
 * Pluton (Pirates)
 * Iskander-K (Elona)
 * Plumbline Missile Launcher (Ascalia)
 * ... (Dominion)
 * Lancer (Security)
 * .. (Ascendancy)

DLC

 * Minotaurus (Federation)
 * Cheetah Thermal Artillery (Corona)
 * ... (Party)
 * ... (Skynet)
 * SLL 33 "Erlkönig" (Elemental)
 * SPHA-T (Autocracy)
 * Bastiladon Solar Platform (League)
 * ... (Swarm)
 * VBTP Speareye (Confederation)
 * Stormshaper Missile Platform (Kingdom)
 * Crescent (Goo)
 * Mobile V1 Launcher (Imperium)
 * ... (Dynasty)
 * Ural SSM Launcher (Warlords)
 * Mortek Crawler (Cult)
 * Twister ATACMS (Raiders)
 * Siege Breaker Howitzer (Theocracy)
 * Kaitan Launcher (Insurgents)
 * Zenithans (Guardians)
 * Ripper Building Destroyer(Hierarchy)
 * ... (Sundered)
 * Pachamama Hotspot Artillery (Ecumene)
 * Genista Missile Platform (Concordat)
 * Plasmite Artillery (Contingent)
 * Eden Tomahawk Launcher (Eden)
 * Bioacid Cannon (InGen)
 * Ballista Catapult (Hallows)
 * Nike Launcher (Commune)
 * ... (Clique)
 * ... (Guild)
 * Plasma Bug (Threat)
 * R-55 “Basilius” Ballistic Carrier (Traders)
 * Bavarium Cannon (Entente)
 * ... (Oblivion)
 * ... (Corporation)
 * ... (Covenant)
 * ... (Institute)
 * ... (Nimbus)
 * ... (Carnival)
 * ... (Wraiths)
 * ... (Chronophage)
 * ... (Privateers)
 * ... (Foundation)
 * ... (Spartacus)