Slagmaker Cannon
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- Slagmaker cannons are a weapon in the Beast Era.
A Slagmaker Cannon is a generic term<sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-0" title="">[1]</a></sup> for any weapon that generates levels of heat intense enough to melt armor and circuitry- reducing it to useless slag. The term has thus far<sup>(Jul-19-08)</sup> only been used in the Beast Era.
The term may be a reference (of sorts) to the original Megatron, whose Fusion Cannon earned him the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/nom_de_guerre" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:nom_de_guerre">nom de guerre</a> "The Slag-Maker."<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1" title="">[2]</a></sup>
Users of Slagmaker cannons include,
- Terragator — His tail converts to a Slagmaker Cannon, in this case a directed-heat weapon that completely melts his enemies' exostructure.
- Ramulus — In robot mode his horns function as a "Slagmaker" cannon<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2" title="">[3]</a></sup> that melts anything in its path. Ramulus seems to consider this weapon's designation more affectionate or "unofficial," since it is an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ad_hoc" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:ad_hoc">ad hoc</a> (but effective) adaption of a system not designed for that purpose.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3" title="">[4]</a></sup>
Footnotes
<ol class="references"><li id="cite_note-0"><a href="#cite_ref-0" title="">↑</a> The Beast Wars Sourcebook describes the Slagmaker cannons used by Ramulus and Terragator as having completely different operating principles. <li id="cite_note-1"><a href="#cite_ref-1" title="">↑</a> Megatron's bio from Marvel's Universe profiles #2 (1986) <li id="cite_note-2"><a href="#cite_ref-2" title="">↑</a> Ramulus's weapon is simply called a "Double Slagmaker Cannon" in his tech-spec. <li id="cite_note-3"><a href="#cite_ref-3" title="">↑</a> In 3H's "Wreckers" comics Ramulus's cannon is a modified tachyon gun. In IDW's Beast Wars comics it is a kludge-job using plasma-generator nodes to let the structure of his horns (a sensory apparatus) instead focus balls of white-hot plasma.</ol>
External Links
- Megatron's TFU bio - "The Slag-Maker"
