MDK builds a space laser concept that will wreck all of you
Okay. The first thing I do is build lasers -- loooots of lasers, because electrical energy is something I can collect and store for free in space. Then! I spread those lasers out across a cloud of satellite gazillions of miles apart. They're equipped with receiver modules to collect *a* centering data from a guide beacon, and *b* command prompts from fleet. This cloud surrounds my fleet. It's everywhere, between ships, in ships, on ships, adjacent to ships, off above ships, everywhere. Each piece is a drone, which actuates with microthrusters and magnetics to stay in position.
Then I build a second unit, called the Prism. The Prism is fired at near-light speed from a rail gun. It's a smart device -- possibly even a human-piloted ship, traveling as a projectile. It's constructed of, well, of prism, I guess, designed to capture and refocus lasers from my cloud. On command, my lasers will center and fire on the Prism -- not at its current location, but at an intercept point far, far ahead of the prism's position (like throwing a hail-mary pass to a streaking receiver). The prism will absorb their power with some surfaces and refract or focus them with others. We use targeting systems overlayed on sensor data to pinpoint the enemy formations and unleash the fury of a thousand suns, like a kid with a magnifying glass burning ants.
Okay. The first thing I do is build lasers -- loooots of lasers, because electrical energy is something I can collect and store for free in space. Then! I spread those lasers out across a cloud of satellite gazillions of miles apart. They're equipped with receiver modules to collect *a* centering data from a guide beacon, and *b* command prompts from fleet. This cloud surrounds my fleet. It's everywhere, between ships, in ships, on ships, adjacent to ships, off above ships, everywhere. Each piece is a drone, which actuates with microthrusters and magnetics to stay in position.
Then I build a second unit, called the Prism. The Prism is fired at near-light speed from a rail gun. It's a smart device -- possibly even a human-piloted ship, traveling as a projectile. It's constructed of, well, of prism, I guess, designed to capture and refocus lasers from my cloud. On command, my lasers will center and fire on the Prism -- not at its current location, but at an intercept point far, far ahead of the prism's position (like throwing a hail-mary pass to a streaking receiver). The prism will absorb their power with some surfaces and refract or focus them with others. We use targeting systems overlayed on sensor data to pinpoint the enemy formations and unleash the fury of a thousand suns, like a kid with a magnifying glass burning ants.