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Starship Weapons

Source Starfinder Core Rulebook pg. 303
Whether the PCs are in the Vast or near a Pact Worlds planet, space is a dangerous place, plagued with hostile aliens, raiders, and worse. As a result, most ships protect themselves with a variety of weapons, ranging from laser cannons to solar torpedoes.

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Light Weapons

Weapon	Type	Range	Speed (in Hexes)	Damage	PCU	Cost (in BP)	Special Properties
Aeon Caster	Direct-Fire	Medium	—	3d4	10	7	Mystical, restricted (Imperial Fleet)
Chain Cannon	Direct-Fire	Short	—	6d4	15	10	Ripper
Coilgun	Direct-Fire	Long	—	4d4	10	10	—
Connecting Tendril	Direct-Fire	Short	—	3d6	10	10	Burrowing, connecting, mystic
Decorative Ramming Prow	Direct-Fire	—	—	2d4	—	5	Intimidating, ramming
Flak spores	Direct-Fire	Special	—	2d4	5	4	Flak area, limited fire 2
Flak Thrower	Direct-Fire	Short	—	3d4	10	5	Point (+8)
Force Projector	Direct-Fire	Short	—	1d10	10	7	Force field (15)
Garbage Ejection System	Direct-Fire	Short	8	1d6	1	1	Limited fire 1, point (+8)
Gyrolaser	Direct-Fire	Short	—	1d8	10	3	Broad Arc
Hook Hawser	Direct-Fire	Short	—	1d4	5	14	Tractor beam
Laser Net	Direct-Fire	Short	—	2d6	10	9	Point (+10)
Light Buster Cannon	Direct-Fire	Short	—	3d8	10	9	Buster
Light EMP Cannon	Direct-Fire	Short	—	Special	10	8	EMP
Light Force Ramming Prow	Direct-Fire	—	—	0	5	3	Force field (20), ramming
Light Laser Cannon	Direct-Fire	Short	—	2d4	5	2	—
Light Orbital Death Knell	Direct-Fire	Medium	—	3d10	20	18	Orbital (3)
Light Orbital Particle Cannon	Direct-Fire	Long	—	2d10	20	21	Line, orbital (2)
Light Particle Cannon	Direct-Fire	Medium	—	3d6	10	10	—
Light Plasma Cannon	Direct-Fire	Short	—	2d12	10	12	—
Light Ramming Prow	Direct-Fire	Special	—	3d4	1	6	Ramming
Light Static Projector	Direct-Fire	Short	—	1d6	10	9	Scatterscan
Light Teleportation Beam	Direct-Fire	Short	—	1d20	15	14	Teleportation (1)
Light Tzibeam	Direct-Fire	Short	—	3d6	20	15	Death Field 2d6, Mystical
Mining Laser	Direct-Fire	Short	—	2d6	10	5	Burrowing
Minor Ramming Prow	Direct-Fire	—	—	2d4	1	4	Ramming
Missile Blocker	Direct-Fire	Short	—	1d10	10	8	Jamming
Mk 1 Arcane Rail	Direct-Fire	Short	—	1d4	10	5	Mystical, unerring
Negative-Energy Gun	Direct-Fire	Medium	—	2d6	10	7	Numbing
Rail Launcher	Direct-Fire	Medium	—	2d8	15	10	Rail 1d8
Rotary cannon	Direct-Fire	Medium	—	2d4	10	7	Torque
Scrambler	Direct-Fire	Medium	—	2d8	15	12	Suspending (+5)
Shadow Bolt Projector	Direct-Fire	Medium	—	1d10	15	7	Intimidating, mystical
Song Cannon	Direct-Fire	Medium	—	1d12	10	9	Cacophonous, mystical
Tracer	Direct-Fire	Long	—	None	5	8	Bugging
Digital Strike Conduit	ECM	Medium	—	Special	10	10	Hacking
Gravity Generator	ECM	Short	—	Special	10	9	Gravity well
Nav-Scram Projector	ECM	Short	—	Special	5	10	Nav-scram
Warp Puck Launcher	ECM	—	—	Special	5	10	Limited fire 3, mine (1), transposition (1)
Grinding gears	Melee	1 hex	—	3d8	10	8	Ripper
Light Explosion Injector	Melee	1 hex	—	3d10	5	13	Burrowing, limited fire 5
Light Hacksaw Arm	Melee	1 hex	—	4d6	10	8	Ripper
Light Ship Tether	Melee	1 hex	—	2d6	5	6	Anchoring
Light-Blade Hull	Melee	1 hex	—	3d8	5	10
Antimagic Missile	Tracking	Medium	10	2d6	5	8	Antimagic, mystical
High Explosive Missile Launcher	Tracking	Long	12	4d8	10	14	Limited Fire 5
Light Aeon Torpedo Launcher	Tracking	Long	12	3d6	10	8	Limited fire 5, mystical, restricted (Imperial Fleet)
Light Carrion-Missile Launcher	Tracking	Long	12	3d8	10	5	Limited Fire 5, Volatile
Light Cytoplasm Weapons	Tracking	Long	14	4d8	10	6	Limited Fire 5
Light Frag Mines	Tracking	—	—	8d4	5	12	Limited fire 5, mine (3), ripper
Light Plasma Mines	Tracking	—	—	2d12	5	12	Limited fire 5, mine (4)
Light Plasma Torpedo Launcher	Tracking	Long	14	3d8	5	11	Limited Fire 5
Light Plasma Torpedo Pod	Tracking	Long	14	3d8	—	11	Limited fire 3, pod
Light Seer-Shard Projector	Tracking	Long	10	5d6	5	10	Limited fire (5), mystical, quantum, ripper
Light Spore Torpedo Launcher	Tracking	Medium	14	3d6	5	5	Limited Fire 5, Spore
Light Torpedo Launcher	Tracking	Long	16	2d8	5	7	—
Magic Torpedo Unit	Tracking	Long	18	2d4+2	10	10	Broad arc, mystical, quantum
Micromissile Battery	Tracking	Long	10	2d6	10	5	Array, Limited Fire 5
Mini-Nuke Mines	Tracking	—	—	5d8	5	8	Irradiate (low), limited fire 3, mine (1)
Slow Burn Missile Launcher	Tracking	Long	8	4d6	10	4	Limited fire 5, smoldering (2d6)
Tactical Nuclear Missile Launcher	Tracking	Long	10	5d8	10	18	Irradiate (low), Limited Fire 5
Vandal Rocket Launcher	Tracking	Long	12	4d8	12	5	Limited Fire 3, Vandal Drones 1d4

Heavy Weapons

Weapon	Type	Range	Speed (in Hexes)	Damage	PCU	Cost (in BP)	Special Properties
Force Blaster	Direct-Fire	Short	—	3d10	25	18	Force field (40)
Gatling Cannon	Direct-Fire	Short	—	15d4	20	20	Ripper
Graser	Direct-Fire	Short	—	7d10	40	35	Irradiate (medium)
Gravity Gun	Direct-Fire	Medium	—	6d6	40	30	Tractor Beam
Gyrocannon	Direct-Fire	Short	—	3d10	20	14	Broad arc
Harpoon Hawser	Direct-Fire	Medium	—	4d6	30	20	Tractor beam
Heavy Aeon Caster	Direct-Fire	Medium	—	6d6	20	18	Mystical, restricted (Imperial Fleet)
Heavy Buster Cannon	Direct-Fire	Medium	—	6d8	15	16	Buster
Heavy EMP Cannon	Direct-Fire	Medium	—	Special	30	12	EMP
Heavy Flak Spores	Direct-Fire	Special	—	4d6	15	13	Flak area, limited fire 3
Heavy Force Ramming Prow	Direct-Fire	—	—	3d4	10	10	Force field (40), ramming
Heavy Laser Array	Direct-Fire	Short	—	6d4	15	10	Array
Heavy Laser Cannon	Direct-Fire	Medium	—	4d8	10	15	—
Heavy Laser Net	Direct-Fire	Short	—	5d6	15	15	Point (+12)
Heavy Orbital Death Knell	Direct-Fire	Medium	—	7d10	40	36	Orbital (7)
Heavy Orbital Particle Cannon	Direct-Fire	Long	—	5d10	40	42	Line, orbital (5)
Heavy Ramming Prow	Direct-Fire	—	—	5d4	1	8	Ramming
Heavy rotary cannon	Direct-Fire	Medium	—	6d4	30	20	Torque
Heavy Solar Cannon	Direct-Fire	Medium	—	3d8	15	10	Sustained 2
Heavy Song Cannon	Direct-Fire	Medium	—	2d12	20	14	Cacophonous, mystical
Heavy Static Projector	Direct-Fire	Medium	—	3d6	20	27	Scatterscan
Heavy Teleportation Beam	Direct-Fire	Medium	—	3d20	40	35	Teleportation (2)
Heavy Tzibeam	Direct-Fire	Medium	—	6d6	40	30	Death Field 5d6, Mystical
Imposing Ramming Prow	Direct-Fire	—	—	4d4	1	10	Intimidating, ramming
Maser	Direct-Fire	Long	—	6d10	35	22	—
Mk 2 Arcane Rail	Direct-Fire	Short	—	1d6	10	20	Mystical, unerring
Negative-Energy Cannon	Direct-Fire	Medium	—	5d6	15	15	Numbing
Particle Beam	Direct-Fire	Long	—	8d6	25	20	—
Persistent Particle Beam	Direct-Fire	Long	—	10d6	40	25	—
Plasma Cannon	Direct-Fire	Medium	—	5d12	30	20	—
Pulsed Gyrolaser	Direct-Fire	Short	—	3d8	25	20	Broad arc
Radiant Cannon	Direct-Fire	Medium	—	7d6	35	22	Radiant, Restricted (Imperial Fleet - Azlanti Star Empire)
Rail Ballista	Direct-Fire	Medium	—	6d8	35	22	Rail 3d8
Railgun	Direct-Fire	Long	—	8d4	20	15	—
Shadow Beam Projector	Direct-Fire	Medium	—	4d10	40	30	Intimidating, line, mystical
Stasis Beam	Direct-Fire	Medium	—	Special	30	30	Immobilize
Superscrambler	Direct-Fire	Medium	—	4d8	30	28	Suspending (+10)
Torpedo Blocker	Direct-Fire	Short	—	3d10	30	26	Jamming
Twin Laser	Direct-Fire	Long	—	5d8	15	18	—
X-Laser Cannon	Direct-Fire	Long	—	8d6	40	35	Line
Digital Raid Node	ECM	Medium	—	Special	15	15	Hacking
Fractal Nav-Scram Projector	ECM	Short	—	Special	10	16	Nav-scram
Gravity Well Generator	ECM	Short	—	Special	15	20	Gravity well
Warp Puck Bank	ECM	—	—	Special	5	20	Limited fire 3, mine (2), transposition (2)
Crushing gears	Melee	1 hex	—	8d8	20	15	Ripper
Heavy Explosion Injector	Melee	1 hex	—	6d12	10	26	Burrowing, limited fire 5
Heavy Hacksaw Arm	Melee	1 hex	—	10d6	20	15	Ripper
Heavy Ship Tether	Melee	1 hex	—	4d8	10	14	Anchoring
Heavy-Blade Hull	Melee	1 hex	—	6d8	10	17
Antimagic Missile (Heavy)	Tracking	Medium	10	4d6	10	15	Antimagic, mystical
Counter-Missile Bank	Tracking	Short	14	8d6	10	11	Limited fire 6, point (+12)
Drone Launcher	Tracking	Long	12	5d8	15	13	Drone (1d8), Limited Fire 5, Restricted (Imperial Fleet - Azlanti Star Empire)
Gravity Twister Launcher	Tracking	Long	16	8d10	15	11	Gravity tether, limited fire 5
Heavy Aeon Torpedo Launcher	Tracking	Long	12	6d8	15	20	Limited fire 5, mystical, restricted (Imperial Fleet)
Heavy Antimatter Missile Launcher	Tracking	Long	8	10d10	15	35	Limited Fire 5
Heavy Carrion-Missile Launcher	Tracking	Long	10	6d10	15	15	Limited Fire 5, Volatile
Heavy Cytoplasm Launcher	Tracking	Medium	14	6d8	10	10	Limited Fire 5
Heavy Frag Mines	Tracking	—	—	8d8	5	15	Limited fire 5, mine (3), ripper
Heavy Nuclear Mines	Tracking	—	—	10d8	10	14	Irradiate (medium), limited fire 3, mine (1)
Heavy Nuclear Missile Launcher	Tracking	Long	10	10d8	15	35	Irradiate (medium), Limited Fire 5
Heavy Nuclear Silo	Tracking	Long	5	10d10	15	35	Irradiate (medium), limited fire 3, orbital (10)
Heavy Plasma Mines	Tracking	—	—	4d12	10	18	Limited fire 5, mine (4)
Heavy Plasma Torpedo Launcher	Tracking	Long	12	5d10	10	18	Limited Fire 5
Heavy Plasma Torpedo Pod	Tracking	Long	12	5d10	0	18	Limited fire 3, pod
Heavy Seer-Shard Projector	Tracking	Long	10	12d6	10	27	Limited fire (5), mystical, quantum, ripper
Heavy Spore Torpedo Launcher	Tracking	Medium	12	5d8	10	10	Limited Fire 5, Spore
Heavy Torpedo Launcher	Tracking	Long	14	5d8	10	16	Limited Fire 5
Heavy Vandal Rocket Launcher	Tracking	Long	10	10d10	18	15	Limited Fire 3, Vandal Drones 3d4
Heightened Magic Torpedo Unit	Tracking	Long	18	5d4+5	20	20	Broad arc, mystical, quantum
Slow Burn Heavy Missile Launcher	Tracking	Long	8	8d8	15	10	Limited fire 5, smoldering (4d8)
Vortex Mouth Mines	Tracking	—	—	7d12	20	30	Limited fire 3, mine (3), vortex

Capital Weapons

Weapon	Type	Range	Speed (in Hexes)	Damage	PCU	Cost (in BP)	Special Properties
Capital Song Cannon	Direct-Fire	Medium	—	1d12 × 10	50	27	Cacophonous, mystical
Extreme Force Ramming Prow	Direct-Fire	—	—	5d4	30	10	Force field (100), ramming
Galactic Choir Array	Direct-Fire	Medium	—	2d8 × 10	55	35	Array, cacophonous, mystical
Gatling Cannon Array	Direct-Fire	Short	—	4d4 × 10	30	25	Array, ripper
Grappler Hawser	Direct-Fire	Long	—	2d4 × 10	30	45	Tractor beam
Gravity Cannon	Direct-Fire	Long	—	2d6 x 10	40	50	Tractor Beam
Mass Driver	Direct-Fire	Long	—	2d6 x 10	25	30	—
Massive Ramming Prow	Direct-Fire	—	—	2d4 × 10	5	20	Ramming
Mega Teleportation Beam	Direct-Fire	Long	—	1d20 × 10	55	65	Teleportation (3)
Mk 3 Arcane Rail	Direct-Fire	Short	—	1d6 × 10	15	30	Mystical, unerring
Monolith Ramming Prow	Direct-Fire	—	—	12d4	1	15	Intimidating, ramming
Particle Beam Cannon	Direct-Fire	Long	—	3d4 x 10	30	30	—
Persistent Particle Beam Cannon	Direct-Fire	Long	—	2d10 x 10	50	40	—
Prismatic Beam	Direct-Fire	Long	—	2d8 × 10	60	55	Line, mystical
Repulsor	Direct-Fire	Short	—	Special	45	25	Redirect
Shadow Bolt Array	Direct-Fire	Medium	—	1d10 × 10	45	25	Array, intimidating, mystical
Starspear Rail Launcher	Direct-Fire	Medium	—	2d8 × 10	50	35	Rail 1d8 × 10
Super Buster Vannon	Direct-Fire	Medium	—	3d8 × 10	35	35	Buster
Super EMP Cannon	Direct-Fire	Long	—	Special	45	18	EMP
Super Negative-Energy Cannon	Direct-Fire	Long	—	2d10×10	40	60	Numbing
Super Orbital Death Knell	Direct-Fire	Medium	—	3d6 × 10	50	57	Orbital (10)
Super Orbital Particle Cannon	Direct-Fire	Long	—	2d6 × 10	50	60	Line, orbital (10)
Super Plasma Cannon	Direct-Fire	Medium	—	3d6 x 10	45	35	—
Super Radiant Cannon	Direct-Fire	Long	—	2d6x10	40	45	Radiant, Restricted (Imperial Fleet - Azlanti Star Empire)
Super Stasis Beam	Direct-Fire	Long	—	Special	50	50	EMP, immobilize
Super Static Projector	Direct-Fire	Long	—	1d4x10	50	50	Array, scatterscan
Super X-Laser Cannon	Direct-Fire	Long	—	3d4 x 10	50	45	Line
Supergraser	Direct-Fire	Medium	—	2d8 x 10	50	35	Irradiate (high)
Superlaser	Direct-Fire	Long	—	2d4 x 10	20	20	—
Supermaser	Direct-Fire	Long	—	2d8 x 10	40	35	—
Vortex Cannon	Direct-Fire	Medium	—	2d12 x 10	55	75	Vortex
Black Hole Generator	ECM	Medium	—	Special	20	25	Gravity well
Digital Assault Torrent	ECM	Medium	—	Special	15	25	Hacking
Super Nav-Scram Projector	ECM	Medium	—	Special	20	25	Nav-scram
Warp Puck Battery	ECM	—	—	Special	5	30	Limited fire 3, mine (2), transposition (3)
Super Explosion Injector	Melee	1 hex	—	3d10 × 10	30	50	Burrowing, limited fire 5
Super Hacksaw Arm	Melee	1 hex	—	4d6 × 10	40	25	Ripper
Super Ship Tether	Melee	1 hex	—	10d8	15	18	Anchoring
Super-Blade Hull	Melee	1 hex	—	3d8 × 10	30	40
Antimatter Mega-Missile Launcher	Tracking	Long	6	4d10 x 10	15	70	Limited Fire 5
Capital Seer-Shard Projector	Tracking	Long	10	4d6 × 10	20	45	Limited fire (5), mystical, quantum, ripper
Devourer Vandal Rocket Launcher	Tracking	Long	8	4d10x10	18	30	Limited Fire 3, Vandal Drones 1d4x10
Heavy Drone Launcher	Tracking	Long	12	2d8x10	20	25	Drone (2d8), Limited Fire 5, Restricted (Imperial Fleet - Azlanti Star Empire)
Heavy Frag Mines	Tracking	—	—	4d8 × 10	10	45	Limited fire 5, mine (3), ripper
Hellfire Mines	Tracking	—	—	2d10 × 10	10	40	Limited fire 5, mine (4)
Hellfire Torpedo Launcher	Tracking	Long	8	2d10 x 10	10	40	Limited Fire 5
Mega Carrion-Missile Launcher	Tracking	Long	8	3d8 x 10	15	25	Limited Fire 5, Volatile
Nuclear Mega-Mines	Tracking	—	—	4d8 × 10	15	30	Irradiate (high), limited fire 3, mine (1)
Nuclear Mega-Missile Launcher	Tracking	Long	8	4d8 x 10	15	60	Limited Fire 5
Quantum Mines	Tracking	—	—	2d8 × 10	25	40	Limited fire 3, mine (5), quantum
Quantum Missile Launcher	Tracking	Long	12	2d8 x 10	15	35	Limited Fire 5, Quantum
Quantum Missile Pod	Tracking	Long	12	2d8 × 10	0	35	Limited fire 3, pod, quantum
Solar Torpedo Launcher	Tracking	Long	10	2d6 x 10	10	25	Limited Fire 5
Super Nuclear Silo	Tracking	Long	5	3d8 × 10	15	40	Irradiate (high), limited fire 2, orbital (14)
Vortex Maw Mines	Tracking	—	—	3d12 × 10	35	60	Limited fire 3, mine (3), vortex

Spinal-Mount Weapons

Weapon	Type	Range	Speed (in Hexes)	Damage	PCU	Cost (in BP)	Special Properties
Gravity Annihilator	Direct-Fire	Long	—	8d6 × 10	50	60	Tractor beam
Hypermass Cannon	Direct-Fire	Long	—	6d6 × 10	40	40	Line
Nova Ram	Direct-Fire	Long	—	6d10 × 10	75	55	Line
Orbital Devastator	Direct-Fire	Long	—	8d6 × 10	60	54	Orbital (18)
Particle Acceleration Gun	Direct-Fire	Long	—	9d4 × 10	50	40	Line
Prismatic Torrent	Direct-Fire	Long	—	5d8 × 10	60	45	Line, mystical
Summon Planetoid Module	Direct-Fire	Medium	—	4d6 × 10	20	40	Limited fire 3, mystical, point (+15)
Titan Bolter	Direct-Fire	Medium	—	6d8 × 10	50	50	Rail 2d8 × 10
Ultra Plasma Cannon	Direct-Fire	Medium	—	9d6 × 10	80	45	Line
Ultra X-Laser Cannon	Direct-Fire	Long	—	6d8 × 10	90	45	Line
Ultragraser	Direct-Fire	Medium	—	6d8 × 10	75	55	Irradiate (high), line
Ultralaser	Direct-Fire	Long	—	6d4 × 10	30	25	Line
Ultramaser	Direct-Fire	Long	—	6d8 × 10	60	45	Line
Vortex Devourer	Direct-Fire	Medium	—	6d12 × 10	80	65	Vortex