The problem with the gravy-gun ship (I put up a design for one before) is that it's relatively short ranged, and the Caravel turns out to be a really inappropriate ship to try and turn into a tank.
That's why I'm suggesting torpedoes instead.
Grav-Weapons that are short ranged are outright called so in their description.
For example Grav-Thrusters overall aren't described as short range but the small arms ones are specifically described as short ranged while the bigger ones are not:
Graviton Thrusters are some of the most effective armor-piercing weapons in existence, their signature vantablack beams easily perforating almost any material with effectively no resistance. While potent, the individual beams are relatively thin—the standard pistol and rifle sized weapons being perhaps the diameter of a pencil—and so they are most effective when the user can target known weaknesses with high accuracy.
Pistol:
These highly advanced weapons fire thin beams of absolute blackness which can penetrate most materials as if they don't even exist, though their range is relatively short.
Rifle:
Exotic gravity weapons that fire distinctive black beams of gravetic force that can punch through nearly anything without resistance, Graviton Thrusters are the terror of any armored unit with known weakpoints—their beams may be thin and their range limited, but very, very few materials can resist these weapons at all.
Heavy Scale and Up:
Unlike smaller graviton-thruster weaponry, Graviton Thruster Lances have significantly less limited range, being comparable to the average range of other energy weapons of similar scale—this makes these rare and exotic devices extremely dangerous even in relatively small numbers.
Meanwhile if they are all short ranged they are specifically stated to be so like with Sheers:
Powerful weapons which emit ultra-sharp 'blades' of gravetic force, Graviton Sheer weapons can easily slice apart anything that is foolish enough to allow one into range—for their short effective range is their critical weakness.
Neither Amplifiers or Imploders were noted to be short ranged in their descriptions with the closest being Naval scale Imploders being described as capable of medium or short ranges but not long. Note how it doesn't say the smaller ones have worse range.
Massively scaled-up versions of their lesser cousins, Macro-Imploders are gigantic grav-weapons designed to be used against voidcraft at short and medium ranges.
Anyways, two Caravel ideas one budget one not:
[] Budget Suncannon Build (4W 1HW 8S 49NEP):
-[] 4x Suncannons (20NEP) 4 Weapon slots
-[] 1x Heavy Las-Lance (8NEP) 1 Heavy Weapon slot
-[] Holo-Field (9NEP) 1 System slot
-[] Grav-Shields (12NEP) 2 System slots
-[] 3 Aethersails (IDK) 3 System slots
-[] 2x PD or 1x CIWB (IDK) 2 System slots
[] Grav Caravel (4W 1HW 8S 58NEP):
-[] 4x Imploders (24NEP) 4 Weapon slots
-[] 1x Heavy Amplifier (13NEP) 1 Heavy Weapon slot
-[] Holo-Field (9NEP) 1 System slot
-[] Grav-Shields (12NEP) 2 System slots
-[] 3 Aethersails (IDK) 3 System slots
-[] 2x PD or 1x CIWB (IDK) 2 System slots
The idea is the Big Amplifier slaps a target with a hefty increase in Gravity and then the Imploders leverage the increased gravity to cause the target to implode harder. The reverse with 1 heavy Imploder and 4 Amplifiers costs way more since regular Amplifiers are 8NEP apiece.
