{"data":{"id":13347,"title":"Portfolio: Klaus & Werner","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/comm-link\/spectrum-dispatch\/13347-Portfolio-Klaus-Werner","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-links\/13347","api_public_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/comm-links\/13347","channel":"Undefined","category":"Undefined","series":"Portfolio","images":[{"id":1004,"name":"Kandwlogo.png","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/nbit96kk7l0ovr\/source\/Kandwlogo.png","alt":"","size":10952954,"mime_type":"image\/png","last_modified":"2013-10-28T20:43:37+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/1004","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/1004\/similar"},{"id":1005,"name":"Kandwlaserrepeater.png","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/1l6cs8xr4pa30r\/source\/Kandwlaserrepeater.png","alt":"","size":2554805,"mime_type":"image\/png","last_modified":"2013-10-28T20:43:32+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/1005","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/1005\/similar"},{"id":26463,"name":"source.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/media.robertsspaceindustries.com\/weozjmuuh3hwh\/source.jpg","alt":"","size":843046,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2019-09-19T15:49:32+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/26463","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/26463\/similar"}],"images_count":8,"translations":{"en_EN":"Greetings Citizens,\n\nToday\u2019s Galactic Guide details the weapons lineup of Klaus & Werner, one of the premiere gun manufacturing companies in the Star Citizen universe! If you own a personal spacecraft, you likely own a K&W gun! This guide originally appeared in last month\u2019s issue of Jump Point.\n\nKlaus & Werner\nThe majority of gun manufacturers diversify their manufacturing lineups. A&R makes reactors, GreyCat makes buggies. Even Behring, considered the platinum standard for laser class weaponry, also designs shield generators. Klaus & Werner doesn\u2019t; they make guns, and they make them well.\n\nThis simple philosophy was the brainchild of Hector Klaus, a successful weapons inventor who believed above all else that simplicity of design would triumph in a combat situation. He long advocated creating weapons with as few moving parts as possible, reducing the needed supply chain and wherever possible rethinking weapon roles. He began his career working in Behring\u2019s famed Terra lab, where his designs were applauded but his philosophy ignored. Military contracts were most profitable when they meant that a company would continue to produce replacement parts, upgrade kits and other maintenance supplies. A chance meeting with Jassica Werner, the widow of a wealthy industrialist, lead to Klaus\u2019 resignation from Behring and the founding of a new company based on his principles.\n\nIn the ensuing years, Klaus & Werner has become a household name. Civilian pilots of all stripes rely on their affordably priced, effective guns systems and their personal arms division has seen great success. The company has had little success in the military arena, though. Repeated bids for lucrative military contracts have resulted in only token production orders, with the Army and Navy continuing to rely on Behring and other well-established standards for their weapons technologies.\n\nCF Series\nThe key limitation of laser weapons is their low damage potential. Lasers charge quickly, they impact a wide variety of energy fields and armor types, and they cause \u201cclean\u201d hits, but despite attempts at increasing battery pools and energy generation, no one has engineered a laser that does the kind of damage that a neutron gun or a kinetic weapon can inflict. Most designers work around this limitation by increasing the range and the surgical precision of their lasers. Not Klaus & Werner: the CF-series of laser repeaters is based on an entirely different principle: deliver as many hits to a wide area as quickly as possible. Three models of the CF series, the Bulldog, Badger and Panther, currently account for the majority of Klaus & Werner\u2019s Voyager Direct sales.\n\nKlaus & Werner positions the CF-007 Bulldog Laser Repeater as its \u201cbeginner\u201d laser, with a low price point designed to introduce new pilots to the repeater concept. The ultimate hope is that a pilot who picks a Bulldog as a first gun will become used to the style of weapon and opt for a Klaus & Werner gun when it\u2019s time to upgrade, rather than switching to a Behring with wholly different firing specifications. The Bulldog features a three-barrel sequential fire design which is capable of high rates of power while maintaining a good degree of accuracy. The overall low damage rate is countered by low overall power consumption. Reviews of the Bulldog have been middling, with many recommending that those with enough credits to spend opt for a higher quality weapon.\n\nThe CF-117 Badger Laser Repeater is a mid-range repeater intended as the next step up from the Bulldog. From a technical standpoint, it is merely a better-tuned Bulldog (with some additional styling to attract higher-credit spenders).\nThe Badger maintains the Bulldog\u2019s power issues, producing an overall poor power-to-damage ratio. Serious repeater advocates generally skip the Badger during their upgrade process, unless their ships are customized in such a way that the higher-yield Panther would be an ineffective choice.\n\nThe CF-227 Panther is the pinnacle of the Klaus & Werner repeater line for smaller ships. The Panther well overcomes the design limitations of the Bulldog and Badger, creating a true fire-and-forget weapon with a respectable power consumption-to-damage ratio. Pilots who can afford to outfit their ships with Panthers, both in terms of power capacity and credit balance, rarely regret the decision. The greatest limitation of this weapon is its struggle with power efficiency.\n\nMass Drivers\nKlaus & Werner\u2019s second, less celebrated line of weapons is its class of ballistic mass drivers. These hard-ammo ballistic weapons are capable of firing multiple types of ammunition and generally offer better shield penetration in exchange for requiring ammunition reloads. Low energy requirements are ideal for pilots hoping to conserve power and reduce EM signature. Klaus & Werner currently manufactures a 60mm hard-ammo mass driver for the civilian market, as well as several other bore ratings under restricted contracts. The major criticism of these weapons is their limited magazine space, although a number of aftermarket upgrades are available to somewhat alleviate this problem.\n\nAlthough the mass driver line got off to a slow start, recent years have seen sales quadruple annually. This is likely the result of the increase in Vanduul attacks on the frontier coupled with the popular impression that mass driver-style weaponry will do more damage to a Scythe than a simple laser. While military surveys do not necessarily support this thinking, it has spread to the popular consciousness and seen frontier worlds adopting mass drivers for use in their militia spacecraft in large numbers.\n\nSmall Arms\nLikely the most famous device in Klaus & Werner\u2019s pantheon is the Model II Arclight, a handheld laser made famous as Kyle Fenris\u2019 sidearm on the hit vid show The Frontier. Fenris\u2019 reliable Arclight became so closely associated with the character that the series\u2019 producers were once forced to torpedo a licensing deal with VOLT after fan reaction to the weapons change set off widespread reaction and crippled ratings. As such, the Model II Arclight has become extremely popular on the civilian market; it\u2019s the gun most likely to be found under a pillow or, in plastic toy form, battling it out in a child\u2019s game of Vanduuls and Star Heroes.\n\nThe other side to this coin is that the Arclight has become as much of a fashion statement as a weapon, with serious enthusiasts decrying it for such. Despite this, the Arclight is a high quality laser with what is arguably the best handgun-to-Optiglass link in the business. Arclights are durable and the lack of moving parts, per Klaus\u2019 philosophy, means that they survive in a number of extreme environments that would freeze or otherwise totally disable many of their peers.","de_DE":"Gr\u00fc\u00dfe B\u00fcrger,\n\nDer heutige Galaktische F\u00fchrer beschreibt das Waffenprogramm von Klaus & Werner, einem der f\u00fchrenden Waffenhersteller im Star Citizen Universum! Wenn Sie ein pers\u00f6nliches Raumschiff besitzen, besitzen Sie wahrscheinlich eine K&W Waffe! Dieser Leitfaden erschien urspr\u00fcnglich in der Ausgabe des letzten Monats von Jump Point.\n\nKlaus & Werner\nDie Mehrheit der Waffenhersteller diversifiziert ihre Produktionslinien. A&R baut Reaktoren, GreyCat baut Buggies. Sogar Behring, der als Platinstandard f\u00fcr Waffen der Laserklasse gilt, entwickelt auch Schildgeneratoren. Klaus & Werner nicht; sie bauen Waffen, und sie machen sie gut.\n\nDiese einfache Philosophie wurde von Hector Klaus entwickelt, einem erfolgreichen Waffenerfinder, der vor allem glaubte, dass die Einfachheit des Designs in einer Kampfsituation triumphieren w\u00fcrde. Er pl\u00e4dierte seit langem daf\u00fcr, Waffen mit so wenig beweglichen Teilen wie m\u00f6glich herzustellen, die ben\u00f6tigte Lieferkette zu reduzieren und die Waffenrollen wo immer m\u00f6glich zu \u00fcberdenken. Er begann seine Karriere im ber\u00fchmten Terra-Labor von Behring, wo seine Entw\u00fcrfe gelobt, aber seine Philosophie ignoriert wurde. Milit\u00e4rische Auftr\u00e4ge waren am profitabelsten, wenn sie bedeuteten, dass ein Unternehmen weiterhin Ersatzteile, Nachr\u00fcsts\u00e4tze und andere Wartungsbedarf produzieren w\u00fcrde. Ein zuf\u00e4lliges Treffen mit Jassica Werner, der Witwe eines wohlhabenden Industriellen, f\u00fchrte zu Klaus' R\u00fccktritt aus Behring und der Gr\u00fcndung eines neuen Unternehmens nach seinen Prinzipien.\n\nIn den folgenden Jahren ist Klaus & Werner zu einem Begriff geworden. Zivile Piloten aller Couleur verlassen sich auf ihre preiswerten, effektiven Waffensysteme und ihre pers\u00f6nliche Waffenabteilung hat gro\u00dfe Erfolge erzielt. Im milit\u00e4rischen Bereich hatte das Unternehmen jedoch wenig Erfolg. Wiederholte Ausschreibungen f\u00fcr lukrative Milit\u00e4rauftr\u00e4ge haben nur zu symbolischen Produktionsauftr\u00e4gen gef\u00fchrt, wobei sich Armee und Marine weiterhin auf Behring und andere etablierte Standards f\u00fcr ihre Waffentechnologien verlassen.\n\nCF-Serie\nDie entscheidende Einschr\u00e4nkung von Laserwaffen ist ihr geringes Schadenspotenzial. Laser laden sich schnell auf, sie treffen eine Vielzahl von Energiefeldern und R\u00fcstungstypen, und sie verursachen \"saubere\" Treffer, aber trotz der Versuche, die Batteriepools und die Energieerzeugung zu erh\u00f6hen, hat niemand einen Laser entwickelt, der die Art von Schaden verursacht, die eine Neutronenkanone oder eine kinetische Waffe verursachen kann. Die meisten Designer arbeiten um diese Einschr\u00e4nkung herum, indem sie die Reichweite und die chirurgische Pr\u00e4zision ihrer Laser erh\u00f6hen. Nicht Klaus & Werner: Die CF-Serie der Laserrepeater basiert auf einem ganz anderen Prinzip: So schnell wie m\u00f6glich so viele Treffer wie m\u00f6glich auf ein gro\u00dfes Gebiet zu bringen. Drei Modelle der CF-Serie, Bulldog, Badger und Panther, machen derzeit den gr\u00f6\u00dften Teil des Klaus & Werner Voyager Direktvertriebs aus.\n\nKlaus & Werner positioniert den CF-007 Bulldog Laser Repeater als seinen \"Einsteiger\"-Laser mit einem niedrigen Preispunkt, der neue Piloten in das Repeater-Konzept einf\u00fchren soll. Die ultimative Hoffnung ist, dass sich ein Pilot, der eine Bulldogge als erste Waffe ausw\u00e4hlt, an den Stil der Waffe gew\u00f6hnt und sich f\u00fcr eine Klaus & Werner Waffe entscheidet, wenn es Zeit f\u00fcr ein Upgrade ist, anstatt zu einem Behring mit v\u00f6llig anderen Schussspezifikationen zu wechseln. Der Bulldog verf\u00fcgt \u00fcber ein sequentielles Feuer mit drei F\u00e4ssern, das zu hohen Leistungswerten bei gleichzeitig guter Genauigkeit f\u00e4hig ist. Der insgesamt niedrigen Schadenquote steht ein niedriger Gesamtstromverbrauch gegen\u00fcber. Die Rezensionen der Bulldogge waren mittelm\u00e4\u00dfig, mit vielen Empfehlungen, dass diejenigen, die \u00fcber gen\u00fcgend Credits verf\u00fcgen, sich f\u00fcr eine qualitativ hochwertigere Waffe entscheiden.\n\nDer CF-117 Badger Laser Repeater ist ein Mittelklasse-Repeater, der als n\u00e4chster Schritt nach der Bulldogge gedacht ist. Technisch gesehen handelt es sich lediglich um einen besser abgestimmten Bulldog (mit einem zus\u00e4tzlichen Styling, um h\u00f6here Kreditausgaben anzuziehen).\nDer Dachs h\u00e4lt die Machtprobleme der Bulldogge aufrecht und erzeugt ein insgesamt schlechtes Energie-Schaden-Verh\u00e4ltnis. Ernsthafte Wiederholungsbef\u00fcrworter \u00fcberspringen den Badger im Allgemeinen w\u00e4hrend ihres Upgrade-Prozesses, es sei denn, ihre Schiffe sind so angepasst, dass der Panther mit h\u00f6herer Rendite eine ineffektive Wahl w\u00e4re.\n\nDie CF-227 Panther ist der H\u00f6hepunkt der Klaus & Werner Repeater-Linie f\u00fcr kleinere Schiffe. Der Panther \u00fcberwindet die Designbeschr\u00e4nkungen von Bulldog und Badger und schafft eine echte Feuer- und Vergisswaffe mit einem respektablen Verh\u00e4ltnis von Stromverbrauch zu Schaden. Piloten, die es sich leisten k\u00f6nnen, ihre Schiffe mit Panthers auszustatten, sowohl in Bezug auf die Leistungskapazit\u00e4t als auch auf das Guthaben, bedauern diese Entscheidung selten. Die gr\u00f6\u00dfte Einschr\u00e4nkung dieser Waffe ist ihr Kampf mit der Energieeffizienz.\n\nMassenfahrer\nKlaus & Werners zweite, weniger gefeierte Waffenlinie ist die Klasse der ballistischen Massenfahrer. Diese ballistischen Hartammo-Waffen sind in der Lage, mehrere Arten von Munition abzufeuern und bieten im Allgemeinen eine bessere Schilddurchdringung als Gegenleistung f\u00fcr die Notwendigkeit, Munition nachzuladen. Der niedrige Energiebedarf ist ideal f\u00fcr Piloten, die Energie sparen und die EM-Signatur reduzieren wollen. Klaus & Werner fertigt derzeit einen 60mm-Hartammo-Massentreiber f\u00fcr den zivilen Markt sowie mehrere andere Bohrungsbewertungen unter eingeschr\u00e4nkten Bedingungen. Die Hauptkritik an diesen Waffen ist der begrenzte Magazinplatz, obwohl eine Reihe von Upgrades f\u00fcr den Ersatzteilmarkt verf\u00fcgbar sind, um dieses Problem etwas zu lindern.\n\nObwohl die Massentreiberlinie nur langsam an den Start ging, hat sich der Umsatz in den letzten Jahren j\u00e4hrlich vervierfacht. Dies ist wahrscheinlich das Ergebnis der Zunahme der Vanduul-Angriffe an der Grenze in Verbindung mit dem beliebten Eindruck, dass Waffen im Stil von Massenfahrern einer Sense mehr Schaden zuf\u00fcgen werden als ein einfacher Laser. W\u00e4hrend milit\u00e4rische Umfragen dieses Denken nicht unbedingt unterst\u00fctzen, hat es sich auf das popul\u00e4re Bewusstsein ausgebreitet und gesehen, wie Grenzwelten Massenfahrer f\u00fcr den Einsatz in ihren Miliz-Raumfahrzeugen in gro\u00dfer Zahl adoptierten.\n\nKleinwaffen\nDas wohl ber\u00fchmteste Ger\u00e4t in Klaus & Werners Pantheon ist das Model II Arclight, ein Handheld-Laser, der als Kyle Fenris' Seitenwaffe in der erfolgreichen Vid-Show The Frontier bekannt wurde. Fenris' zuverl\u00e4ssige Arclight wurde so eng mit dem Charakter verbunden, dass die Produzenten der Serie einst gezwungen waren, einen Lizenzvertrag mit VOLT zu torpedieren, nachdem die Reaktion der Fans auf den Waffenwechsel eine weit verbreitete Reaktion und verkr\u00fcppelte Quoten ausgel\u00f6st hatte. So ist die Model II Arclight auf dem zivilen Markt sehr beliebt geworden; sie ist die Waffe, die am ehesten unter einem Kissen oder in Plastikspielzeugform zu finden ist und bei einem Kinderspiel von Vanduuls und Star Heroes gegen sie k\u00e4mpft.\n\nDie andere Seite dieser Medaille ist, dass die Arclight so sehr zu einem modischen Statement wie zu einer Waffe geworden ist, mit ernsthaften Enthusiasten, die sie daf\u00fcr ablehnen. Dennoch ist der Arclight ein hochwertiger Laser mit dem wohl besten Handfeuerwaffen-zu-Optiglas-Link im Markt. Lichtbogenlampen sind langlebig und der Mangel an beweglichen Teilen, gem\u00e4\u00df Klaus' Philosophie, bedeutet, dass sie in einer Reihe von extremen Umgebungen \u00fcberleben, die viele ihrer Konkurrenten einfrieren oder anderweitig v\u00f6llig abschalten w\u00fcrden.","zh_CN":"Greetings Citizens,\n\nToday\u2019s Galactic Guide details the weapons lineup of Klaus & Werner, one of the premiere gun manufacturing companies in the Star Citizen universe! If you own a personal spacecraft, you likely own a K&W gun! This guide originally appeared in last month\u2019s issue of Jump Point.\n\nKlaus & Werner\nThe majority of gun manufacturers diversify their manufacturing lineups. A&R makes reactors, GreyCat makes buggies. Even Behring, considered the platinum standard for laser class weaponry, also designs shield generators. Klaus & Werner doesn\u2019t; they make guns, and they make them well.\n\nThis simple philosophy was the brainchild of Hector Klaus, a successful weapons inventor who believed above all else that simplicity of design would triumph in a combat situation. He long advocated creating weapons with as few moving parts as possible, reducing the needed supply chain and wherever possible rethinking weapon roles. He began his career working in Behring\u2019s famed Terra lab, where his designs were applauded but his philosophy ignored. Military contracts were most profitable when they meant that a company would continue to produce replacement parts, upgrade kits and other maintenance supplies. A chance meeting with Jassica Werner, the widow of a wealthy industrialist, lead to Klaus\u2019 resignation from Behring and the founding of a new company based on his principles.\n\nIn the ensuing years, Klaus & Werner has become a household name. Civilian pilots of all stripes rely on their affordably priced, effective guns systems and their personal arms division has seen great success. The company has had little success in the military arena, though. Repeated bids for lucrative military contracts have resulted in only token production orders, with the Army and Navy continuing to rely on Behring and other well-established standards for their weapons technologies.\n\nCF Series\nThe key limitation of laser weapons is their low damage potential. Lasers charge quickly, they impact a wide variety of energy fields and armor types, and they cause \u201cclean\u201d hits, but despite attempts at increasing battery pools and energy generation, no one has engineered a laser that does the kind of damage that a neutron gun or a kinetic weapon can inflict. Most designers work around this limitation by increasing the range and the surgical precision of their lasers. Not Klaus & Werner: the CF-series of laser repeaters is based on an entirely different principle: deliver as many hits to a wide area as quickly as possible. Three models of the CF series, the Bulldog, Badger and Panther, currently account for the majority of Klaus & Werner\u2019s Voyager Direct sales.\n\nKlaus & Werner positions the CF-007 Bulldog Laser Repeater as its \u201cbeginner\u201d laser, with a low price point designed to introduce new pilots to the repeater concept. The ultimate hope is that a pilot who picks a Bulldog as a first gun will become used to the style of weapon and opt for a Klaus & Werner gun when it\u2019s time to upgrade, rather than switching to a Behring with wholly different firing specifications. The Bulldog features a three-barrel sequential fire design which is capable of high rates of power while maintaining a good degree of accuracy. The overall low damage rate is countered by low overall power consumption. Reviews of the Bulldog have been middling, with many recommending that those with enough credits to spend opt for a higher quality weapon.\n\nThe CF-117 Badger Laser Repeater is a mid-range repeater intended as the next step up from the Bulldog. From a technical standpoint, it is merely a better-tuned Bulldog (with some additional styling to attract higher-credit spenders).\nThe Badger maintains the Bulldog\u2019s power issues, producing an overall poor power-to-damage ratio. Serious repeater advocates generally skip the Badger during their upgrade process, unless their ships are customized in such a way that the higher-yield Panther would be an ineffective choice.\n\nThe CF-227 Panther is the pinnacle of the Klaus & Werner repeater line for smaller ships. The Panther well overcomes the design limitations of the Bulldog and Badger, creating a true fire-and-forget weapon with a respectable power consumption-to-damage ratio. Pilots who can afford to outfit their ships with Panthers, both in terms of power capacity and credit balance, rarely regret the decision. The greatest limitation of this weapon is its struggle with power efficiency.\n\nMass Drivers\nKlaus & Werner\u2019s second, less celebrated line of weapons is its class of ballistic mass drivers. These hard-ammo ballistic weapons are capable of firing multiple types of ammunition and generally offer better shield penetration in exchange for requiring ammunition reloads. Low energy requirements are ideal for pilots hoping to conserve power and reduce EM signature. Klaus & Werner currently manufactures a 60mm hard-ammo mass driver for the civilian market, as well as several other bore ratings under restricted contracts. The major criticism of these weapons is their limited magazine space, although a number of aftermarket upgrades are available to somewhat alleviate this problem.\n\nAlthough the mass driver line got off to a slow start, recent years have seen sales quadruple annually. This is likely the result of the increase in Vanduul attacks on the frontier coupled with the popular impression that mass driver-style weaponry will do more damage to a Scythe than a simple laser. While military surveys do not necessarily support this thinking, it has spread to the popular consciousness and seen frontier worlds adopting mass drivers for use in their militia spacecraft in large numbers.\n\nSmall Arms\nLikely the most famous device in Klaus & Werner\u2019s pantheon is the Model II Arclight, a handheld laser made famous as Kyle Fenris\u2019 sidearm on the hit vid show The Frontier. Fenris\u2019 reliable Arclight became so closely associated with the character that the series\u2019 producers were once forced to torpedo a licensing deal with VOLT after fan reaction to the weapons change set off widespread reaction and crippled ratings. As such, the Model II Arclight has become extremely popular on the civilian market; it\u2019s the gun most likely to be found under a pillow or, in plastic toy form, battling it out in a child\u2019s game of Vanduuls and Star Heroes.\n\nThe other side to this coin is that the Arclight has become as much of a fashion statement as a weapon, with serious enthusiasts decrying it for such. Despite this, the Arclight is a high quality laser with what is arguably the best handgun-to-Optiglass link in the business. Arclights are durable and the lack of moving parts, per Klaus\u2019 philosophy, means that they survive in a number of extreme environments that would freeze or otherwise totally disable many of their peers."},"links_count":0,"comment_count":103,"created_at":"2013-10-28T00:00:00+00:00","created_at_human":"12 years ago"},"meta":{"processed_at":"2026-05-08 05:53:27","valid_relations":["images","links"],"prev_id":13345,"next_id":13348}}