Just drop your ideas here, no requirements or anything, i am just busy with life and stuff these days so don't expect any new weapons soon.
Thanks! I thought about this just last week and the concept is slightly similar to the Rift Cascade and Cryoflamer but combined.
-- idea --
The way this superweapon would work is that it would shoot out a slow stream of fire (taken from cryoflamer), and the nearer a target is, the higher the chances of "rifts of fire" that would literally engulf a ship (taken from rift cascade).
-- projectile effect/s --
Initial impact from the fiery stream deals high explosive damage (and applies a debuff) and consecutive impacts from trail projectiles slowly spawn these Energy damage orbs/blobs of burning residue which slowly surrounds the ship.
-- superweapon debuff --
The amount these orbs/blobs that spawn proportionally scale with either of the ships':
Max Flux Level, Mass, Size, Cargo Capacity, and Armor.
(OR you can probably think of any other scaling debuff that suits the weapon)
Military ships are guaranteed to suffer at least (1/2/3/4 ; depending on hull size) of these orb/blob multipliers.
(civilian ships have a certain percentage of not being affected by these modifiers, regardless of hull size)
(1/2/3/4) debuffs would increase the chances of additional blobs spawning by (1.5x ; 2x ; 2.5x ; 3x).
-- a little bit of lore --
This weapon was an experimental concept for a core-cracking project that would revert any form of planet back to its primordial state. The idea was for the prototype device to bore straight through the planet's core and engulfing it in superheated [REDACTED] chemicals that proliferate rapidly when in contact with its target matter, slowly eating up a planet from the inside out. The testing phase, however, was a huge failure, when it was found that the device had been sabotaged by an operative from [somethingsomewheresomehow] and disrupted its ability to bore through the planet's crust. This resulted in the chemicals blanketing the entire planet in mere hours until the mantle was rendered inhospitable due to the intense heat and radiation exuded by the ultra-volatile chemical. Unfortunately, by the time reports from the experiment arrived to the higher-ups, the team have been severely punished and exiled. A plan was instead been set to motion, as years passed by, what's left of the team who have the knowledge to build and operate the device have now gathered their equipment and supplies to repurpose the device's blueprint into a deadly weapon capable of planetary destruction.
TL,DR; nerds tasked to develop device capable of reverting planets to their earlier stages of development, but it gets tampered with by another (sneakier) nerd from [who knows where] and the other nerds are punished and bummed out, so the decided to repurpose it into a big shooty-gun for some mysterious ppl.
PS: I'd prolly call this "Edax Ignis" (devouring fire), and honestly, I'm terrible when it comes to making lore and descriptions, so I encourage anyone to whip up any cool backstory they can come up with for this.