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- | Most space combat is dominated by kinetic energy weapons, rocket-propelled guided missiles, and lasers. | + | ====== Spaceship Weapons and Defenses ====== |
+ | Most space combat is dominated by kinetic energy weapons, rocket-propelled guided missiles, and lasers. | ||
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+ | ===== Spaceship Weapons ===== | ||
+ | ==== Kinetic Energy Weapons ==== | ||
+ | **Kinetic energy weapons** take many forms, from pellets to bullets and darts. These depend on high velocity to do their damage. They are propelled by various means, ranging from chemical propellant in old fashioned cannons to hybrid ETGs (electro-thermal guns) and the more experimental electro-magnetic coil guns. ETGs are currently | ||
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+ | General Products has been the gold-standard manufacturer of starship ETG weaponry for several decades. InterCore, Omicron Industries, and Starck Technologies (a recent addition from Annyrion) all produce kinetic energy weapons, as well. | ||
+ | ==== Missiles ==== | ||
+ | Rocket propelled **guided missiles** (or " | ||
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+ | Sternmetal Horizons manufactures the HAWK, EAGLE, and PHOENIX anti-ship missiles and launch systems, and has licensed the technology to Namiki Industries. | ||
- | Kinetic energy | + | ==== Directed-Energy Weapons ==== |
+ | **Lasers** have recently been reintroduced as shipboard | ||
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+ | Some research has been made in the area of **particle accelerator** weapons, but the only existing prototypes are in the form of a spinal-mount linear accelerator, | ||
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+ | Seibu-Kaihatsu Heavy Industries, InterCore, and Omicron Industries manufacture directed-energy weapons. | ||
- | Rocket propelled guided missiles | + | ===== Spaceship Defenses ===== |
+ | Spaceship defenses consist of passive defenses - **armor** - and active defenses - **evasive maneuvering** and **electronic countermeasures | ||
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+ | ECM defends ships by attempting to spoof missiles into missing. | ||
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+ | Evasive maneuvers, contrary | ||
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+ | Armor is the final protection | ||
- | Lasers are sometimes used as weapons, but they are only effective on small un-armored or lightly armored targets. Their advantage is that their beam literally moves at the speed of light and therefore is every easy to score hits with. The tradeoff involves the large banks of energy storage units required to supply power to the laser. | + | ====== Prohibited Weapons ====== |
- | + | In the past, exotic weapons have been experimented with, including "spurt bomb" gamma-ray/x-ray lasers, but due to the general prohibition of nuclear weapons | |
- | Spaceship defenses consist of armor, evasion, stealth, decoys, and ECM (electronic countermeasures). With the exception of armor, the goal is to avoid being hit by enemy weapons. No progress has yet been made toward developing any kind of force field to protect ships. | + | |
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- | As an aside. . . | + | |
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- | Other exotic weapons have been experimented with, including "spurt bomb" gamma-ray lasers, but these are not widely deployed, and are not available for use on the MUCK except under strictly monitored conditions. | + | |
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- | Standard missiles can carry a nuclear warhead, but this is very rarely done. Since earth was devastated in large part by nuclear weapons, recoms have developed | + | |
+ | Standard missiles could theoretically carry a nuclear warhead, but this has not been done since the Apocalypse War. Since Earth was devastated in large part by nuclear weapons, recoms have developed a very strong distaste toward building or using them. Also, it is very hard to secretly produce nuclear fuel for bombs since fission reactors have entirely been replaced by IEC fusion, which does not produce fissile materials. |
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