The Hammer is a powerful anti-starship cannon mounted on a massive eight-wheeled truck. Used for combatting ships and ultra heavy ground vehicles, the Hammer can deal heavy damage to targets several times its size with a single shot.
The Hammer’s weapon is an ultraheavy fusion artillery cannon, mounted on the rear of the vehicle. This same turret can be found mounted on Republic Navy warships as a heavy antiship cannon. Large numbers of Hammer vehicles can down small warships in a single volley, able to engage their targets at long ranges as they prepare to enter the planet’s atmosphere.
As this weapon is direct fire, it must have line-of-sight on its target, and is therefore useless against smaller vehicles such as tanks. It has eight remote control heavy plasma repeater turrets for defensive purposes, but is extremely vulnerable to vehicular assault; it is well armored, but highly unmaneuverable and slow, with a top speed of only 18 miles per hour. As such, it generally requires an armored escort.
These powerful weapons are generally used for either defense against ships and large ground vehicles, or offensively against theater-scale shields. They do not see regular action, but when they are deployed, they inflict tremendous damage against their enemies.