Technological Terror
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a starfighter-grade missile weapon for Helix strike craft
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- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
- Manufacturer: Helix Privateers
- Affiliation: Helix Privateers
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: 6G6 Gossamer
- Modularity: Yes
- Production: Minor
- Material: Helsteel, Storm Iron, Helglass
- Classification: Launcher
- Size: Average
- Weight: Heavy
- Ammunition Type: Fragmenting Otherplasma missiles
- Ammunition Capacity: Large
- Effective Range: Long
- Rate of Fire: Low
- Damage Output: Very High
- Recoil: High
SPECIAL FEATURES
- Programmable "Smart" missiles
- Pick Your Poison: The Gossamer comes stock with two firing modes, each making it capable of attacking either fighters or capital ships.
- Fry Em': The Gossamer is particularly effective against shielding and electronic systems.
- Weak Point: The Gossamer itself is delicate, and a direct hit to it will severely damage or even destroy the attached fighter.
A starfighter-grade missile launcher, the Gossamer is intended as a component of Helix's upcoming next-gen fighter.
Though smaller, the Gossamer takes a cue from the Hellheart's strategy of carrying many smaller, more controlleable missiles. As a result, it enjoys a significantly larger ammunition store than most similar systems without compromising weight. It is the ammunition itself, however, that is most worthy of interest.
The Gossamer utilizes programmable missiles, allowing the user to determine what manner of performance is required before firing.
When set for maximum area of effect, the missile will attempt to track a target before detonating nearby. A sizeable conventional Otherplasma charge activates, creating a ravening explosion of corrosive, lingering black star-stuff at the target area. This would be deadly enough, but the Gossamer takes it one step further. Packed atop the main warhead is a sleeve of thousands upon thousands of miniscule Storm Iron shrapnel bearings.
When struck by the main charge's force, the Iron's piezoelectric properties are activated even as they are scattered outwards, energized by the plasma exposure to create a maze of conductive plasma channels. The result is an ever-widening, disorienting "net" of ionic electrolasers, providing a sizeable secondary "stun" radius on top of the initial charge's effective damaging area.
Alternatively, the missile may be programmed to attack heavier single targets, such as buildings or capital ships. In this configuration, the missile's area of effect is diminished significantly in exchange for correspondingly-enhanced lethality.
When striking a shield or hull in this manner, the missile's Otherplasma core charge activates, creating a small, localized shield-bubble of its own before detonating.
This traps the resultant explosion against the surface of the enemy's shield or outer hull, directing its violence inward with incredible force. The primary plasma charge is turned into a singularly destructive shaped energy warhead, as the secondary charged-shrapnel effect ricochets wildly into the foe's surface again and again, potentially disrupting enemy shielding.
As a result, the Gossamer's versatility is almost without parallel. It can tackle anything from a fighter to a cruiser, albeit not quite as effectively as proper siege munitions in the latter case.
Out Of Character Info
Intent:
To create a starfighter-grade missile weapon for Helix strike craft
Technical Information
Affiliation:
Helix Privateers
Model:
6G6 Gossamer
Modular:
Yes
Effective Range:
Long Range
Rate of Fire:
Single Shot
Material:
Helsteel, Storm Iron, Helglass
Ammunition Type:
Fragmenting Otherplasma warhead
Ammunition Capacity:
Large
Damage Output:
Very High
Recoil:
High
Ranged Class:
Other
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