The special issue Helios antimatter bomb is largely restricted to anti-Sathanas FIREBREAK units, and Cyclops procurement has run so rampant that the GTVA sometimes sells consignments of older warheads off for use as mining tools despite the security risk. When fired in large volleys, the Cyclops provides good probability of hit even against modern warships, but the threat environment has grown so hostile to bombers that it is clear the Cyclops' time is limited. As the Alliance's standard-issue anti-warship munition, the Cyclops defines the term 'bomb': it performs a lengthy scan cycle to analyze the target's armor and systems state, locks on, separates, and thrusts to impact while at risk of point defense fire. The aging GTM-12 Cyclops remains in service due to an excellent series of modernization programs and enormous institutional inertia. Maxim rounds shear apart ineffectively on shields. Enormous ammunition and power requirements and the need for barrel changes after every 4000 rounds fired prevent the Maxim from being deployed aboard warship turrets in most cases, and in any case, the design relies on the firing platform's ability to reposition. The Maxim now serves as a cornerstone of Alliance tactics, with heavy assault wings trained to mob targets and strip their turrets from beyond their range of reply. But the rise of warship-grade beam weapons, combined with newer, more sophisticated rounds, created a requirement for long-range attacks against warship hulls and turrets. Ballistic weapons fell out of favor during the 14 Year War because they underperformed compared to jacketed plasma weapons, and the rise of fighter-grade shields seemed to put the last bullet through the concept. It has been supplanted by the Balor cannon.Ī child of Reconstruction-era advances in metallurgy and conventional explosives, the Maxim is a caseless, smoothbore autocannon capable of devastating armor from extreme range. The HL-7 was the standard issue fighter-grade weapon during the Second Shivan Incursion. But Great War dogfights against Shivan craft quickly taught the Allies that their ships didn't stand a chance unless they could punch through shields. Until the Shivans appeared with their shield technology, these weapons were considered an unnecessary and costly extravagance. The Subach-Innes HL-7 is a xaser weapon, firing a bolt of coherent plasma both excited by and continuously emitting x-ray light. Gender proved critical to the construction of patriotism and national identity.'Big thanks to Svedal for gathering the data for the Blue Planet weapons. In each Red Scare the symbols and rhetoric of anticommunism prioritized women’s relationship to the family, positioning them either as bastions of American virtue or as fundamental threats to the social and political order. Anticommunism provided a safe platform for conservative women to engage in political activism in defense of the family, and in turn, they participated in broader efforts that attacked and weakened civil rights claims and the social justice efforts of women on the left. The second Red Scare played out in similar fashion. These same antiradicals maligned radical and progressive women for their feminism and their social activism. Within this gendered nationalism, the first Red Scare offered opportunities for conservative women to join the antiradical cause as protectors of the home. This cultural nationalism tied traditional gender norms to the defense of American values and ideals, positioning the family as a bulwark against communism while making women’s performance of gender roles symbolic of national health or sickness. Many women found their lives hemmed in by antifeminism and the conservative gender ideology that underwrote anticommunist national identity in 1919, and then again in the late 1940s. The first Red Scare, after World War I, and the Red Scare that followed World War II, both impacted American women in remarkably similar ways.
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