Particle cannon: Difference between revisions

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{{Weapon Infobox

|manufacturer=[[Forerunner]]<ref name="Hold the Line">'''[[Halo Wars 2]]''', campaign level, ''[[Hold the Line]]''</ref>

|type=[[Particle beam weapon]]<ref name="H4EVG">'''[[Halo 4: The Essential Visual Guide]]''', ''page 105''</ref>

*[[Forerunner-Flood War]]<ref name="Silentium" />

*[[Post-Covenant War conflicts]]<ref name="Reclaimer">'''[[Halo 4]]''', campaign level, ''[[Reclaimer]]''</ref>

|ammotype=Ionized particles<ref name="H4EVG" />

|rate=*Continuous beam<ref name="Hold the Line" />

*Burst fire<ref name="Osiris">'''[[Halo 5: Guardians]]''', campaign level, ''[[Osiris (level)|Osiris]]''</ref>

|range=Long<ref name="Reclaimer" />

A '''particle cannon''' is a type of [[Forerunner]] [[Directed-energy weapon|directed energy]] [[particle beam weapon]] that fires a hyper-dense beam of negatively charged ions.<ref name="H4EVG" /> Ranging from a few meters<ref name="Osiris"/> to hundreds of meters long,<ref name="H4EVG" /> particle cannons were installed on a multitude of [[ecumene]] worlds and used in the defense of important Forerunner installations.<ref name="Hold the Line" /><ref name="Reclaimer" /><ref name="Osiris"/>

The [[Z-8060 particle cannon|Z-8060 High-Impact Particle Weapon]], as it is designated by the [[United Nations Space Command]], is a model of particle cannon almost five-hundred meters in length which consists of a spherical firing assembly surrounded by three curved "arms."<ref name="H4EVG" /> Several Z-8060s were used to defend the [[Gravity well|gravity well generator]] of the Forerunner [[shield world]], [[Requiem]].<ref name="Reclaimer" />

Smaller particle cannons identical in appearance to the Z-8060s were installed on the [[Didact]]'s vessel, ''[[Mantle's Approach]]'', and used for point-defense against other ships.<ref name="Midnight" /> In [[2557]], after being dormant for one-hundred millennia,<ref name="String 37">'''[[Halo: Silentium]]''', ''String 37''</ref> the weapons were reactivated for use against the [[UNSC Home Fleet]].<ref name="Midnight" />

Particle cannons were also positioned across the surface of [[Installation 00]], "the Ark." The firing mechanisms of these cannons were embedded in the surface of the Ark and fired a blue particle beam upwards between three "prongs."<ref name="Hold the Line" /> In [[2559]],<ref name="A New Enemy">'''[[Halo Wars 2]]''', campaign level, ''[[A New Enemy]]''</ref> Professor [[Ellen Anders]] of the {{UNSCShip|Spirit of Fire}} assumed control over one of the particle cannons in order to immobilize and take down the [[Energy shielding|energy shields]] of the [[Banished]] [[CAS-class assault carrier|assault carrier]], ''[[Enduring Conviction]]''.<ref name="Hold the Line" />

Multiple several-meter-long particle cannons similar in appearance to Z-8060s were positioned around<ref name="Osiris"/> an access point to the [[Domain]] on an [[Astroengineering|artificial]] Forerunner world, known as [[Kamchatka]] to [[human]]ity.<ref name="Kamchatka">[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/universe/locations/kamchatka '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Kamchatka'']</ref> The cannons were reactivated during an [[Battle of Kamchatka|invasion]] by [[Jul 'Mdama]]'s [[Jul 'Mdama's Covenant|Covenant]] and fired bursts of particle energy at the attacking aircraft and spacecraft.<ref name="Osiris"/>

File:H4-Concept-ParticleCannon.jpg|Concept art of a Forerunner anti-air particle cannon in ''Halo 4''

File:H4-Concept-Mantle-MegaCannon.jpg|Concept art of the ''[[Mantle's Approach]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s point-defense particle cannons in ''Halo 4''

File:Particle_cannon_-_right.jpg|A view of a particle cannon on Requiem

File:H5G-Kamchatka particle cannon.jpg|One of Kamchatka's particle cannons

File:HW2_ParticleCannon.png|A particle cannon on Installation 00.

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[[Category:Forerunner weapons]]