How many GRAF cannons could you fit on the hull of a supership? And what would be the correct collective noun for that many? An apocalypse of GRAF cannons? An armageddon?Gai retreated to his normal pose. “The exploding tag was most...” he paused.
“Probably youthful,” Kurenai said thoughtfully. “For us, anyway. For our enemies, it would be very unyouthful.”
“Thank you,” Gai beamed at her. “Yes, most youthful, however, it was, perhaps, a small bit over the top.”
I mean, if you can fit a GRAF cannon in the Aegis, I'm fairly sure that that means you could fit... probably thousands on a supership. And if you replace all the power generation with Karrine technology, you should be able to power them all as well.
Be expensive as hell, I'm sure, but it also seems to me like that would be the kind of thing that would be _necessary_ to fight the Syndicate on their home territory... because what they sent to our galaxy has to be their version of an expendable force.
In other words, it might not actually be over the top at all... in the words of Spike from BTVS, rather than overkill, it might be 'just enough kill'.
(You could actually make them even _more_ deadly by adding in gravity inducers to get the field up enough to allow a Megatron unit to fire _reusably_, and point them outwards instead of in... because unlike a GRAF cannon, Megatron units are small enough to be portable, so you could probably fit on tens or hundreds of thousandsof them.... The downside is that unless you could upsize them somewhat and get better range, you'd have to get into literal knife-fight range to use them, because their range is on the same order as the size of the ship. On the gripping hand, if you could detune them somewhat to get a wider spread at the cost of having, say, only a few hundred miles of range, you'd have one _HELL_ of an anti-fighter and anti-missile point defense. With, you know, probably anything smaller than a cruiser being considered a fighter for these purposes.)