As far as I can recall from High Guard, meson weapons were pretty
awesome in their size/weight and power consumption. I always assumed they
were some sort of accelerator weapon (I'm a retired civil engineer so what
do I know :-). The weapon has to be that long to accelerate the mesons or
whatever, so you sort of build the ship around the gun (hence spinal mount).
My image of a planetary meson site was a huge spherical cavern with a
grav-mounted meson gun in the middle so it could point in any direction
whatsoever. The cavern would be big enough to park a dreadnaught in.
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