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===Armament===

One of the Dreadnaught's most notable features is a massive parabolic twin-mounted dish built into its side nearest the aft, which is the emitter for a paracausal superweapon capable of decimating fleets<ref name="XL"/> and even destroying a portion of Saturn's rings.<ref name="War"/> As the weapon charges, energy travels laterally along the Dreadnaught's waist from each end until it reaches the dish, where it is collected and released in a devastating spherical pulse that expands outward from the ship, destroying or severely damaging anything in its path.<ref name="Trailer"/><ref name="Prologue"/> Designed by [[Ir Halak]] and [[Ir Anûk]], the weapon draws on Oryx's power to briefly evert the ~~Ascendant Realm~~ within the Dreadnaught out into the physical ~~realm~~.<ref name="Dreadnaught"/> This is essentially the same principle as an [[Oversoul]] death impulse. The blast radius created by the weapon is approximately fifteen thousand kilometers in diameter.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Saturn#Trivia|Saturn]]''</ref>

One of the Dreadnaught's most notable features is a massive parabolic twin-mounted dish built into its side nearest the aft, which is the emitter for a paracausal superweapon capable of decimating fleets<ref name="XL"/> and even destroying a portion of Saturn's rings.<ref name="War"/> As the weapon charges, energy travels laterally along the Dreadnaught's waist from each end until it reaches the dish, where it is collected and released in a devastating spherical pulse that expands outward from the ship, destroying or severely damaging anything in its path.<ref name="Trailer"/><ref name="Prologue"/> Designed by [[Ir Halak]] and [[Ir Anûk]], the weapon draws on Oryx's power to briefly evert the influence of his throne world within the Dreadnaught out into the surrounding physical space.<ref name="Dreadnaught"/> This is essentially the same principle as an [[Oversoul]] death impulse. The blast radius created by the weapon is approximately fifteen thousand kilometers in diameter.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Saturn#Trivia|Saturn]]''</ref>

Apart from this weapon, the Dreadnaught is also capable of remotely generating "eversive breach events," creating interdimensional rifts either to Take nearby organisms or to attack a given area with a short-lived stream of energy,<ref name="Dreadnaught"/> and can wreck havoc with the mind.<ref name="Dreadnaught"/><ref group="note">The {{Plain|[https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Noosphere Noosphere]}} is the sphere of human thought; thus, ''noopathic'' literally means "mind disease".</ref> Furthermore, it continuously emitted exotic radiation in the form of sterile neutrinos, phaetons, mass growl, gravity waves, and axions,<ref group = "note">Sterile neutrinos, phaetons (or dark photons), and axions are all hypothetical particles proposed in connection to dark matter.</ref> with significant spikes in this radiation being correlated with the breach events taking place across the Solar system at the onset of the [[Taken War]]<ref name="Dreadnaught"/> when active.

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-One of the Dreadnaught's most notable features is a massive parabolic twin-mounted dish built into its side nearest the aft, which is the emitter for a paracausal superweapon capable of decimating fleets<ref name="XL"/> and even destroying a portion of Saturn's rings.<ref name="War"/> As the weapon charges, energy travels laterally along the Dreadnaught's waist from each end until it reaches the dish, where it is collected and released in a devastating spherical pulse that expands outward from the ship, destroying or severely damaging anything in its path.<ref name="Trailer"/><ref name="Prologue"/> Designed by [[Ir Halak]] and [[Ir Anûk]], the weapon draws on Oryx's power to briefly evert the Ascendant Realm within the Dreadnaught out into the physical realm.<ref name="Dreadnaught"/> This is essentially the same principle as an [[Oversoul]] death impulse. The blast radius created by the weapon is approximately fifteen thousand kilometers in diameter.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Saturn#Trivia|Saturn]]''</ref>
+One of the Dreadnaught's most notable features is a massive parabolic twin-mounted dish built into its side nearest the aft, which is the emitter for a paracausal superweapon capable of decimating fleets<ref name="XL"/> and even destroying a portion of Saturn's rings.<ref name="War"/> As the weapon charges, energy travels laterally along the Dreadnaught's waist from each end until it reaches the dish, where it is collected and released in a devastating spherical pulse that expands outward from the ship, destroying or severely damaging anything in its path.<ref name="Trailer"/><ref name="Prologue"/> Designed by [[Ir Halak]] and [[Ir Anûk]], the weapon draws on Oryx's power to briefly evert the influence of his throne world within the Dreadnaught out into the surrounding physical space.<ref name="Dreadnaught"/> This is essentially the same principle as an [[Oversoul]] death impulse. The blast radius created by the weapon is approximately fifteen thousand kilometers in diameter.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Saturn#Trivia|Saturn]]''</ref>
 Apart from this weapon, the Dreadnaught is also capable of remotely generating "eversive breach events," creating interdimensional rifts either to Take nearby organisms or to attack a given area with a short-lived stream of energy,<ref name="Dreadnaught"/> and can wreck havoc with the mind.<ref name="Dreadnaught"/><ref group="note">The {{Plain|[https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Noosphere Noosphere]}} is the sphere of human thought; thus, ''noopathic'' literally means "mind disease".</ref> Furthermore, it continuously emitted exotic radiation in the form of sterile neutrinos, phaetons, mass growl, gravity waves, and axions,<ref group = "note">Sterile neutrinos, phaetons (or dark photons), and axions are all hypothetical particles proposed in connection to dark matter.</ref> with significant spikes in this radiation being correlated with the breach events taking place across the Solar system at the onset of the [[Taken War]]<ref name="Dreadnaught"/> when active.