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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.