Ultraviolet Combat Lasers
Ultraviolet Combat Lasers — Terra Invicta technology. Lasers in ultraviolet frequencies offer massive potential for damage at long range.
About Ultraviolet Combat Lasers
Ultraviolet Combat Lasers is a Terra Invicta technology in MilitaryScience with a research cost of 60,000.
Lasers in ultraviolet frequencies offer massive potential for damage at long range.
While the move to laser weapons utilizing visible light has increased their power and versatility, their shortcomings in range hamper their usefulness in long-distance conflicts. It is to ultraviolet-based combat lasers we now turn instead. Extreme ultraviolet is breathtakingly difficult to work with, because it burns through almost all matter on contact - ideal for striking against heavily-armored enemies, yes, but first we need to focus it without instantly destroying the necessary lenses and mirrors in the process. Special new dielectric mirrors, coated with multiple layers of ultra-dense, highly reflective nanomaterials, overcome this complication, enabling our latest weapons to utilize the ultraviolet spectrum without losing intensity. These laser systems are capable of shooting precise beams over long distances to inflict massive damage, but they are restricted in their ability to bombard surface targets through significant atmospheres - those of Earth and Titan.