Omni Blade

"Cleave through enemies with ease and shut down their weapons systems by activating Omni Blade when in close range to your opponents."

General
The Omni Blade, when activated, fires a 4,000 m long, 1,500 m wide weapon-disrupting beam multiple times. The firing pattern is as follows: charge for 0.4s, fire for 0.8s; charge for 0.4s, fire for 1.4s; charge for 0.4s, fire for 1.8s; charge for 0.4s, fire for 2.4s; charge for 0.4s, fire for 2.8s.

Note that the weapon's listed DPS is regarded as the "DPS while the beam is firing", meaning that the DPS is averaged over its firing duration of 9.2 seconds, instead of the total duration of 11.2 seconds. Moreover, the cooldown period only begins 0.4s from the end of the final beam.

Advantages
The Omni Blade is useful for turning the tide against overwhelming forces, as the beam not only does overwhelming damage and pierces through all ships in its path like the Omega's Omega Beam, but also inflicts the Weapon Disrupted debuff on enemy hulls that are struck by it, preventing them from attacking and inhibiting their ability to retaliate, allowing your ships ample opportunity to even the odds.

The beam is very wide and has the ability to potentially damage multiple hulls that are side by side. It is especially useful on fighters and rangers as they automatically turn towards their current target when on autopilot, thus allowing the beam to also lock on to its foes without additional player input.

Disadvantages
The Omni Blade has a rather short reach, so a skilled pilot can exploit this by retreating in order to avoid getting damaged by the trigger.

Trivia

 * 6x Omni Blade Is were given to active players who owned a Tier 8 hull shortly after the late April 2020 downtime to collect feedback about the item.
 * The Omni Blade received a rework in the late May 2020 downtime. Instead of firing 4 times each in the forward and backward directions, it now fires 5 times in the forward direction, with more time spent firing the beam overall. The width of the beam has also been doubled.
 * The mass requirement of all trigger items was removed in the late October 2020 update.