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1.4 FD P-Tower

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one of Atgar's inexpensive anti-vehicle weapons, the P-Tower was considered outdated duringf the era of the New Order. This didn't deter the Alliance from using a number of these to help guard Echo Base on Hoth. They hoped that shear numbers of the readily-available implements would help defend the base. The P-Tower was essentially a turret-mounted laser dish, with sixteen micropower routers located around the outer edge. Once charged, these routers channeled all their energy into the main cannon, which then fired a huge blast of coherent energy. The main problem with the P-Tower was the fact that the sixteen routers drew incredible amounts of power from the batteries used to supply it. Each C-6 battery was only capable of handling eight shouts before it was drained. Atgar compensated for this by making the C-6 battery easy to replace. The challenge then became ensuring that enough batteries were available on the battlefield.