Visible Combat Lasers
Visible Combat Lasers — Terra Invicta technology. Lasers operating in the visible spectrum can damage enemies at longer ranges and fire through Earth's at…
About Visible Combat Lasers
Visible Combat Lasers is a Terra Invicta technology in MilitaryScience with a research cost of 25,000.
Lasers operating in the visible spectrum can damage enemies at longer ranges and fire through Earth's atmosphere.
While laser weapon systems for spacecraft have rewritten the rules of space combat, the power of our initial, infrared lasers is only effective over a relatively short range. To overcome this shortcoming, our researchers have worked tirelessly on designing combat lasers that instead utilize visible light beams. By switching from infrared to visible light, our laser weapons not only benefit from a greater range, but may also be used within Earth's skies. Visible light scatters far less than infrared light in our atmosphere, thus enabling the laser pulse to retain most of its strength. To achieve the same power output in visible lasers as with infrared systems, our weapon engineers turn to lasers which employ chemical reactions to generate their pulses, as well as to new multi-layered dielectric mirrors, which reflect nearly 99.9999 percent of the incoming light beam. The result is the most powerful - and most versatile - laser weapon yet. Nevertheless, the best is yet to come - future concepts for energy weapons include powerful defensive emplacements and combat laser arrays.