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7/14/2025, 12:05:10 PM
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>Rick Dom already has the hardware to accommodate beam weapons, which is what the port on the chest is for.
I feel like this is obsolete lore. Like, at first it was intended for that but later it was renovated into the beam scattering emitter instead, so nowhere in the animation has it ever been actually used to connect to a beam weapon, and there isn't even any beam weapon designed and built that can connect to the Dom's chest to receive power. Not even the Rick Dom's one special beam weapon, the rare beam bazooka, connects to the chest.
Also gonna go on a tangent here, the beam bazooka is also a poorly powered beam weapon, not only does the beam bazooka rely on a small generator built into the weapon, it also still requires additional energy from the suit to work via the energy plug in the hand. IIRC:
>beam bazooka can't be fired by itself since it doesn't have enough power from the built-in reactor
>beam bazooka can't work with the standard Zaku F-type since those units top out at less than 1000 kW (Doms have just under 1300 kW reactor output)
>beam bazooka is not really worth using with Gelgoog because Gelgoogs already have proper beam rifles that fire more frequently and is smaller and easier to handle while still retaining one-hit-kill power
All of that means the Rick Dom beam bazooka was an early weapon that was really unwieldy, not really practical, and the extra firepower compared to a regular beam rifle didn't amount to much, the only thing it'd be useful for was shooting at ships or fortresses. The Feds did have plenty of the former but not much of the latter for Rick Doms to shoot at. Both Zeon and Fed just give up on the beam bazooka idea so hard that beam bazookas\launchers don't reappear until a couple of years later when MS start to have beefier generators with power to spare, and still don't become super common (available for grunts) until decades later.
>Rick Dom already has the hardware to accommodate beam weapons, which is what the port on the chest is for.
I feel like this is obsolete lore. Like, at first it was intended for that but later it was renovated into the beam scattering emitter instead, so nowhere in the animation has it ever been actually used to connect to a beam weapon, and there isn't even any beam weapon designed and built that can connect to the Dom's chest to receive power. Not even the Rick Dom's one special beam weapon, the rare beam bazooka, connects to the chest.
Also gonna go on a tangent here, the beam bazooka is also a poorly powered beam weapon, not only does the beam bazooka rely on a small generator built into the weapon, it also still requires additional energy from the suit to work via the energy plug in the hand. IIRC:
>beam bazooka can't be fired by itself since it doesn't have enough power from the built-in reactor
>beam bazooka can't work with the standard Zaku F-type since those units top out at less than 1000 kW (Doms have just under 1300 kW reactor output)
>beam bazooka is not really worth using with Gelgoog because Gelgoogs already have proper beam rifles that fire more frequently and is smaller and easier to handle while still retaining one-hit-kill power
All of that means the Rick Dom beam bazooka was an early weapon that was really unwieldy, not really practical, and the extra firepower compared to a regular beam rifle didn't amount to much, the only thing it'd be useful for was shooting at ships or fortresses. The Feds did have plenty of the former but not much of the latter for Rick Doms to shoot at. Both Zeon and Fed just give up on the beam bazooka idea so hard that beam bazookas\launchers don't reappear until a couple of years later when MS start to have beefier generators with power to spare, and still don't become super common (available for grunts) until decades later.
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