Gauss Glaive

Based on concepts conceived half a millennium ago, the Glaive emerged as a defining instrument of belligerence. Throughout the Heliopolis, the Glaive shaped the art of war on worlds in much the same way as did the rise of black powder at the dawn of modern ages. Despite being only one factor among many, it is the principal symbol of a new era of war to many.

Principal weapon
The old name Gauss Glaive denotes all types of coilguns fitted to the use of infantry.

Even fit for dimensions of human use, the Glaive Coilgun remains a slow and cumbersome weapon. Viable only as a single-shot weapon, the Glaive reveals its true and piercing potential only in numbers and coordinated salvo fire. Firepower unparalleled is unleashed with every shot, driven not by powder but raw, electromagnetic energy.

Glaives of many kinds dominate the arsenals of untold armies of the Heliopolis, sowing victory and demise on embattled fields all throughout the Solar System. In this splintered universe the Glaive exists in uncounted variations, ranging much in its design, in range and precision, reliability and power. Some are mere hand cannons, relying on affixed position, others repeating guns, though none of the automated kind. But all bear at their core the same principle first issued six-hundred and nineteen years ago in 1904.

Renaissance
On the open battlefields of Heliopolis, wars are fought among arcologies, among states and cities, tribes and enclaves, invading hordes just as well as fleets and reclusive fortresses of solitude. Wherever interests and territories form embattled fronts, the Glaive is the most common weapon to find in the embattled regions. To overcome the means of kinetic impactor protection and those of even heavy armor, the Glaive is the instrument of choice for all.

Coordinated volley fire is the most effective means to bring the Glaive's potentially full to bear. In light of this, a new age of formations dawned, where grand armies of infantry march and clash.

In their thousands, Glaives may bring down even capital vessels carrying much greater calibers of such kinetic weaponry.

Combined arsenal
The Glaive is but one among many types of weaponry in Heliopolis arsenals and made the weapons of old by no means obsolete. It is merely the centerpiece of a newly born - or newly arisen old - doctrine, revolving around the core of such kinetic weaponry.

Automated conventional weapons and rifles, heavy cannons and artillery, cavalry and capital vessels roam the battlefields of the Solar System in as many forms as there are worlds under the sun. As they always did throughout the ages of history, they merely changed in a world governed by potential and limitations of its technology.