Starfleet Phasers
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Starfleet Phasers
Sidearm and rifle units continue in the Starfleet inventory, with some ergonomic and energy system alterations. The type-1 hand phaser is currently issued as a backup weapon to supplement the type-2 holstered phaser. Two different type-3 rifle phasers are maintained in the Deep Space 9 armory; an older model shares a number of technological innovations with the type-2, and a recent type-3b assault rifle delivers on theoretical research connected to the equipment requirements of the Sovereign-class starship. The type-3b incorporates the first true transitional phase pulse accelerator. The type-2 phaser modifications include an improved sarium-krellide power cell, curved grip, and reinforced prefire chamber, among others. The power cell is hot-swapapable in the field and holds a total energy charge of 8.79x107 megajoules. The power cell is now housed within a 45-degree curved grip for improved targeting and handeling. Within the optronics and energy-manipulation sectionm the lithium-copper prefire chamber has been strengthened with the addition of a wound hafnium tritonide fiber layer, which allows a prefire chamber energy density and plasma pressure 15 percent higher than that of the previous type-2 unit. Control surfaces, response, and operation remain unchanged. The earlier type-3 rifle phaser remains in Starfleet's fabrication database, though no new production copies have been produced in six years. Minor retrofits to the deployed units on Deep Space 9 include densified sarium-krellide cells, upgraded targeting scanners and isolinear processors, and prefire chamber reinforcement similar to that of the type-2 unit. The latest type-3b rifle unit supports a hot-swappable power cell with a total energy charge of 3.45x108 megajoules, a field-replaceable deuterium plasma generator, twelve-stage plasma accelerator, and five stage cascading prefire chamber. At the terminus of the energy flow is the emitter crystal, also a lithium-copper superconductor like the prefire chamber. The plasma accelerator is critical to pumping the prefire chamber to the proper energy level for nuclear disruption forces (NDF). Almost no clasical thermal or other unwanted EM effects are present in the discharge beam. The superheated, rarefied plasma is exhausted past the emitter crystal in a focused stream. The plasma helps ensure that the srystal does not cool too quickly during firing. The type-3b also boasts a new seeker/tracker possessing both passive and active EM and subspace detectors. Like other phaser types, the tracking processor is coupled by STA to the onboard safety system to constrain the rifle to setting 3, unless authorized by senior officer command override. The type-3a compression rifle is not currently deployed aboard Deep Space 9 due to limited Starfleet allocations, but is in use on certain frontline starships. The differences distinguishing the 3a from the base 3 unit are twin hot-swappable power cells, each holding 3.4x108 megajoules, and a split emitter resonator designed to tune and focuse the outgoing beam.
