Hic-Up ICM (Ion Cluster Missile)

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Hic-Up ICM (Ion Cluster Missile)


AFFILIATION
Open Market

MANUFACTURER
Maetech Inc.

SIZE
.75 meters Long and 25 cm Diameter

WEIGHT
5 Kgs

COMPOSITION
Ion charged warhead tips, Durasteel structure
WEAPON TYPE
Cluster Missile

DAMAGE TYPE
Light to disabling

AMMUNITION CAPACITY
7 mini warheads per Missile

FIRE SELECTOR
Single Use, Explosive

MAX RANGE
3 Km and a 25 Meter Dispersed Blast Radius


DESCRIPTION
The Ion Cluster Missile is a new way to skin an old cat, meaning, Ion tech has been around a very long time and has even been adapted to replace light to heavy cannons on ships as small as star fighters, but at the expense of immense power usage. The missile is a different way of the same purpose. It allows smaller craft to have the benefit of Ion tech without the large power usage, its drawback compared to the other way of using Ion cannons, is it is a once per fire weapon. A cannon can be used over and over, where a fighter can normally only carry 3-6 missiles in its typical payload.

The missile is slower by 15% than other missiles of its size do to the targeting system had to be adjusted for a larger ionic blast. At the higher speeds, the targeting system failed.

The missile has two built in proximity triggers the first is when the missile has reached 50 meters from its target, the rest of the fuel on the main body of the rocket will burn and accelerate the rocket forward at 130% speed. This will only last a few moments and only propel the rocket straight forward, anything else would again run into problems with the targeting system and have a higher chance of malfunction. The second trigger occurs at 15 meters dispersing the 7 warheads in a 15 meter spread at the target. The individual rockets have enough fuel to propel the rockets 30 meters per second for 3 seconds.

The payload is only able to disrupt the target system for 15 to 20 sec, but where it really gets it value from is the target normally has to reboot the system that was affected by the blast in order to recover causing a "Hic-Up" in their affected system. This makes targeting engines with it, invaluable.

The Ion missile is a good alternative for police and other less honorable intention individuals to disable their target rather than to cause mass destruction.

LEGALITY
These devices are quite Illegal due to the fact that even though they are used to disable your foe, in the wrong hands, it can be used to cause some considerable mayhem.

INTENT
Like the individual who came up with the ion cannon replacement for laser cannons on star-fighters and freighters, I wanted to make the same option available to those who wanted to switch out their standard concussion and proton missiles with something new with a new purpose. Would be good tech to use for pirating and raiding characters such as my own.

ADVANCED TECH
Yes, this tech requires at least 2 threads to acquire.

 

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Would this not be Gen Tech since it is basically another tech with a new function and skin?
 

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Is this in the form of a standalone launcher that is different from dynamic missile launcher system or is it just ammo loaded into existing launchers.

Would this not be Gen Tech since it is basically another tech with a new function and skin?
You might want to check what warrants something being gentech based on the rules. But this is clearly something that should need approval and as it stands it looks pretty overpowered.
 

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So, ion torpedo tech, according to canon, is a new thing by the time of the Galactic Civil War. I really don't see it being feasible 6,000 years in the past, let alone as a MIRV system like this that splits into multiple warheads. Not only that, such a system basically gives an opponent no opportunity to dodge; I don't see this being anything in PVP besides unfair. We've had trouble with similar multiple missile systems in the past, mind.

I do appreciate that it's slower than normal missiles, but that 130% "dash" to the target at the end sort of negates this drawback. And either way, it doesn't offset this thing's other capabilities.

On these grounds, I unfortunately find it must be archived.
 
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