Eden Class Gunboat and FIREFALL The Eden Class Gunboat was a complete accident (as are most of my designs) as I was simply building to see where my hands would take me. But with each new part, I new something great was going to be made. As I added the weapons I figured I had made a good ship for the donation box. Boy, was I wrong. It was with her that I discovered a new way to use I beam missile tech, thus FIREFALL was born FIREFALL The name Firefall comes from 1st Kings Chapter 18 of the Bible where Elijah ask God to send fire down from heaven to show that the later is the one true God to the Israelites who had turned from him and started worshiping the false god Baal Firefall uses Ibeams but I address two problems that I beams cause 1st: I beams are strong, but a single beam (or two) is normally not enough to kill heavy ships. Taking multiple shots to kill which causes the second problem 2nd: When multiple shots are fired, reliability decreases. Due to newtons law "for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction" constant hitting exactly where you want it to hit decreases due to multiple hits. Firefall deals with these problems by sending multiple Ibeams out in one shot and at the exact same distance. This allows heavy damage while making newtons law have minimal affect until after the damage is done. Imagine 8 I beams coming at you and all hitting at the exact same time. A 3rd problem Firefall makes up for is that (as we all know) I beams are quite light and SRBs are not, so I can stick a bunch onto a ship without adding a whole bunch of weight (Eden Class Gunboat weights ~37 tons, and has two nuke engines, 3 large 1 meter fuel tank, and 14 total I-beams) Should Firefall not acheve the desired one shot kill, I now have a huge hole in the targets armor to finish it off. The two drawbacks is that I only get one shot with it so I have to have extra missiles to insure that I can keep fighting and the amount or recoil is quite high on it I also set it up to use the Abort button so that I can use the rest of the action groups for other stuff. PICs First target: Derk MK XIV-I Second Target: MU Battlecruiser Currently, the Firefall weapon system is installed on four ships in to different configurations Heavy Firefall: Salvation MKIV and Eden Gunboat Light Firefall: Faithfull MKIII and Gideon MKIII