Name:

Disruptor, Phase Disruptor

Rationale for Design:

A weapon was needed for non UED races to counter their phasers

How the System Works:

Follow the same basic principle as the Federation Phaser in that they cause the target to transition violently out of this continuum. But the Disruptor uses slow nadions rather than rapid nadions in generating the energy beam. This gives the disruptor considerably lower energy conversion efficiency than the UFED phaser. This is partially offset by a moderate reduction in the size of the hardware required for the weapon itself - the space freed up by this allows a higher power weapon to be installed in the same space

Limitations:

The Federation phaser is considered to be more sophisticated and generally more effective than the disruptor, which relies on brute power to overcome its efficiency failings

Like phasers, disruptor weapons can fire sustained beams or pulses depending on the exact configuration of the hardware. One major drawback to this type of weapon is that no user has been able to develop the efficiency of the system to a point where individual emitters can be linked via force coupling. This makes it virtually impossible to construct a linear disruptor array along the pattern of UFED's phaser arrays