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The largest Defence Lasers use vast reservoirs of plasma-based energy, blacking out local power grids for miles around their emplacements each time they fire. The blinding red blasts unleashed by a Defence Laser are so powerful that they can breach the atmosphere of a planet and engage targets in low orbit, making the weapon invaluable for repelling alien invasions or other planetary assaults. Even a glancing blow from a Defence Laser can be enough to drive off any voidship up to Cruiser-class in size once the vessel's Void Shields are brought down. A smaller Escort vessel may even be cut in two by the blast if struck by a direct hit.

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rdfs:comment	The largest Defence Lasers use vast reservoirs of plasma-based energy, blacking out local power grids for miles around their emplacements each time they fire. The blinding red blasts unleashed by a Defence Laser are so powerful that they can breach the atmosphere of a planet and engage targets in low orbit, making the weapon invaluable for repelling alien invasions or other planetary assaults. Even a glancing blow from a Defence Laser can be enough to drive off any voidship up to Cruiser-class in size once the vessel's Void Shields are brought down. A smaller Escort vessel may even be cut in two by the blast if struck by a direct hit.
dcterms:subject	Imperium Weapons Imperial weapons Imperium Imperial weapons Weapons Imperial Technology D D Imperial Technology
abstract	The largest Defence Lasers use vast reservoirs of plasma-based energy, blacking out local power grids for miles around their emplacements each time they fire. The blinding red blasts unleashed by a Defence Laser are so powerful that they can breach the atmosphere of a planet and engage targets in low orbit, making the weapon invaluable for repelling alien invasions or other planetary assaults. Even a glancing blow from a Defence Laser can be enough to drive off any voidship up to Cruiser-class in size once the vessel's Void Shields are brought down. A smaller Escort vessel may even be cut in two by the blast if struck by a direct hit. These massive laser weapons, housed in extensive installations on planetary surfaces, are classified as Lance weapons by voidship standards. Although able to project their powerful beams hundreds of miles outside of the planet's atmosphere, planet-based lasers require even more power than ship Lances to compensate for the diffraction of the energy beam caused by firing through the atmosphere. These power requirements can be satiated by on-site generatoriums, or by drawing from the power grid of the planet's infrastructure. In many cases, the bulk of the defence laser silo's supporting machinery is built underground, adding the protection of hundreds of feet of rock to the metres-thick armored walls of the facility above.

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