The Hydrological Front-Facing Electro-Cannon (Version 2) is an artillery piece typified by its wide, stumpy barrels and its ability to turn its targets completely to water (known in the military as "hydration") through its dispersal of lethal, anti-organic solvent technologies embedded in high-temperature payloads. In military taxonomy its cannon aspect falls between the machine gun and the missile, and in hydrological terms it comes before the hydrological missile (see below). It registers a hydration rate of 2.714x1046 molecules/second. Among military personnel it is frequently and affectionately referred to as the "Splasher". It replaces the ill-fated Version 1 model, which did not deliver optimum hydration, often leaving a target only partially hydrated. The most infamous example of this resulted in the notorious and harrowing "Blood Floods" of The Battle for Neurabia.
History
The Splasher was first developed during the commodity wars of the late 27th century, when state-sponsored Nova Brittanic scientists were tasked with improving the efficiency of killing so as to better manage the lifecycle of not only equipment (which as traditionally been lifecycled and endcycled as a matter of military course) but also the human body; to wit, cadavers provided by the killing.
The hydrological cannon was invented by the renowned chemist Ibrahim Al-Farooq, who struck upon the idea when forced by his Government to "biocremate" his family, who had been casualties of the war, against his express wishes, despite the Governmental "Recycle Everything" mandate expressing that everything, even human corpses, ought to be reused to maintain the war effort. The biocremation method - placing a human body into a pressurised chamber and gently raising the temperature and pressure whilst alkali is added. The result is pure ash and pure water, reducing the amount of waste from the cremation process. Al-Farooq thought this method could be accelerated by increasing the struck upon a method for reducing organic matter to one of its most basic constituent parts - water - by administering a lethal and concentrated dose of alkali (Such as Sodium Hydroxide) to living tissue at extremely high heat.
Al-Farooq eventually matured this technology into a neat, payload-sized package which would be superheated by an electro-cannon.
Operations
The Splasher entered service in 2698, where it is generally acknowledged that it helped to turn the tide of the war in the favour of Nova Brittanicus.
Green Effect
The Splasher had the unusual effect of dividing the Rebel Insurgency Pacifists (RIP). The weapon, especially in its faulty inaugrurate version, was seen as an horrendous and torturous weapon of unrivalled barbarity; it effected reduced men to cannibals, so the argument. This caused retaliatory and treasonous attacks by Nova Brittons against their own army's equipment. However, another faction within RIP claimed that it was providing water, the world's most precious commodity, and therefore its technology should be harvested.
Legacy
The Splasher paved the way for the Hydrological Missile, capable of delivering more coordinated, larger and more accurate attacks.
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