Particle Cannon Inertial Offsets

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Particle cannons include computer assistance for projectile placement with or without the MDTS active. The system is designed to put the shots you fire directly at the point your gunsight or MDTS is indicating the moment you pull the trigger. It includes inertial compensators that apply offset force factors to your shots to insure that they will reach the indicated point regardless of how fast your ship is flying, what angle it's at, and any outside factors that would otherwise effect their path. So whether you are in a planet atmosphere, near a high gravity star, or in open space, when you pull the trigger your weapon system will apply directional and physics offsets to your shots to insure they reach the location your gunsight or MDTS is pointing to when you fire. This way, you can always aim directly at where you want to place your shots and let the computer do the work of sorting out any factors that may interfere with accuracy.

If inertial offsets were not applied, then the gunsight would become less and less accurate the faster you fly. The range of your particle cannons would become less and less consistent the faster you fly. And the chance of your weapon fire impacting your target would also decrease the faster you fly. So to help the pilot by having a more accurate and consistent targeting behavior, inertial compensators are used with particle cannons to always deliver the shots the pilot fires to the point where the gunsight is aiming at the same timing, velocity, angle, and range indicated by the weapon's stats. This lets the pilot simply focus on putting the gunsight on a target and firing, then letting the computer do the work of applying all of the necessary offsets to account for their ship's speed and trajectory into the equations necessary to put those shots on the spot the gunsight is pointing at the moment the trigger is pulled.