Interestingly, the Wave Motion Gun was not treated as something invincible: at the end of the first season, Desslar's one was reflected back at him, and in the second season we have three different incidents of Wave-Motion Guns utterly failing in their job (first was the Comet Empire's vanguard fleet flagship firing her Magna Flame Cannon while inside Saturn's ring, only for the energy beam to explode against the rings' particles, giving Earth's fleet the time to reach their weapons' range and annihilate the vanguard fleet then the Earth Defense Force fired ALL their Wave Motion Guns at the Empire's comet fortress, but failed to do any damage third was the Yamato finding herself attacked again by Desslar and charging the gun, only for Desslar to mine the space before the muzzle and get a good laugh as the Yamato couldn't fire without being destroyed by her own weapon).
Desslok/Desslar had his Desslok Cannon (said to be weaker than the Wave Motion Gun, but not so much that you'd really notice), and the Comet Empire had their weaker (only one ship at a time) but longer-ranged Magna-Flame Cannon. itself wasn't just a heroes-only weapon: by season 2, most ships in the Earth Defence Force carried one (some had two), and once exposed to the Wave Motion Gun, everyone else tried to copy or modify one. Notably, the original Wave Motion Gun note Originally called "Hadou Hou" in Japanese (literally, "Wave Cannon").
Invariably, just before firing, The Captain has to order the attack. It also explains how a small fleet can win consistently against enemies that grossly outnumber them: the defense units just have to hold their ground until the Gun(s) is ready to fire.
And don't even think about trying to waste your time with puny Deflector Shields - it'll just punch right through 'em.įrequently, the Wave Motion Gun is made of Lost Technology, or is an experimental prototype, but sometimes they're a dime a dozen.
It doesn't necessarily have to even hit if you're too close, the sheer energy bleeding off from the beam can be deadly. If it's a sufficiently humongous Cool Ship, it will be equipped with a Laser Beam on steroids: the Wave Motion Gun - an enormous Ray Gun that fires a massive energy beam capable of blowing away an enemy ship (in the "blow a battleship in half" sense), sometimes an entire fleet, with one shot, and maybe even blowing up an entire planet. The Cool Ship needs an equally cool weapon.
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