Tesla Cannon

The Tesla cannon is a shoulder-mounted directed energy weapon using technology pioneered by Nikola Tesla.

Background
The Tesla cannon is a pre-War, portable, directable energy weapon. It was designed to be used as a lightweight, compact anti-tank weapon. The design was named after Nikola Tesla, whose designs for the technology were seized by the U.S. government after his death. When used, the cannon projects a blast that will damage the enemy on impact, with a lingering aftermath of electricity, which will continue to gradually reduce the enemy's health.

Tesla Cannon


The Tesla cannon is a shoulder-mounted energy weapon that fires powerful blasts of electricity, powered by electron charge packs.
 * For the cut content Tesla Cannon found in Fallout 3 Broken Steel add-on, see: Tesla cannon (Beta).

Tesla-Beaton prototype


The Tesla-Beaton prototype looks like the Tesla cannon, but with orange glow instead of blue, and a fully encased energy emitter.

Elijah's jury-rigged Tesla cannon


Elijah's jury-rigged Tesla cannon looks like the Tesla cannon, but with orange glow instead of blue, and a fully encased energy emitter.

Behind the scenes
 
 * The Tesla cannon was originally to be featured in the canceled Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel 2, bearing no resemblance to the weapon in Broken Steel. Described as a "high-powered mass-cannon throwing tessellated plasma forward in an orgy of death and destruction" in the Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel 2 design document, it was to be the so-called "uber-weapon" of player character Maxus. "Uber-weapons" were to be unique weapons for each NPC which had to be assembled from 5 parts over the course of the game. One of the five parts for this weapon was a Tesla coil.
 * Nikola Tesla really did try to create a directed energy weapon but it would have been a particle beam weapon called a "Teleforce", something that would be immensely complicated to create - laser weapons would be simple by comparison.

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