Approved Tech Gravespire Concussion Missile Mk. I

[Darth Prazutis]

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• Intent: To create a devastating Sith engineered heavy concussion missile for Kainate starfighters and strike craft, optimized for breaching capital ship hulls and collapsing structural hardpoints.
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  • Headers - Teresa Zambrano | Darth Pellax
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• Manufacturer:
  
  • Malsheem Hypernautics and Manufacturing
• Affiliation:
  
  • The Kainate
• Market Status: Closed-Market
• Model: Gravespire Concussion Missile Mk. I
• Modularity: No
• Production: Limited
• Material:
  • Alchemized Sarrassian Iron Casing
  • Bloodsteel Reinforced Warhead Sheath
  • Gravitic Charge Cells
  • Obsidian Alloy Nosecone

• Gravitic Pulverizer Core: At the heart of the Gravespire lies a cluster of gravitic charge cells, engineered to release a crushing shockwave on detonation. When the missile breaches a target's outer layers, the charges ignite in a precisely timed sequence that collapses bulkheads and ruptures internal compartments. This design enables catastrophic hull breaches even in vessels with advanced reinforcement plating.
• Void Echo Disruption Field: On impact, the missile generates a residual distortion field that lingers for several seconds after detonation. This field destabilizes local sensor readings and briefly interferes with targeting arrays, creating false returns and masking follow-up strikes. The effect is especially potent against ships relying on high-fidelity sensor data to coordinate defense.
• Bloodsteel Engraved Sheath: Encasing the entire warhead is a bloodsteel sheath etched with Sith runes that resonate during launch and impact. These engravings amplify the concussive yield and help channel the gravitic discharge directionally into the target's hull, maximizing destructive efficiency while minimizing stray dispersion.

• Catastrophic Structural Damage: The Gravespire is designed to collapse armored decks, shatter internal compartments, and compromise the integrity of large warships. Few conventional concussion missiles deliver this level of focused hull destruction.
• Sensor Disruption Aftermath: The residual distortion field clouds targeting sensors and tactical displays, granting friendly vessels a window of opportunity to reposition or exploit confusion. In fleet engagements, this can create decisive moments of vulnerability.
• Runic Energy Channeling: The Sith etched sheath not only reinforces the missile's casing but channels the force of detonation into a concentrated blast vector. This improves penetrative performance against dense hull sections and reactor housings.

• Single-Use Payload: As an oversized missile, the Gravespire can only be carried in limited numbers. Once launched, the craft must rely on secondary ordnance or energy weapons until reloaded.
• Thermal Signature Spike: The gravitic discharge generates an intense heat bloom and a unique energy profile easily detected by long-range sensors. Hostile forces can quickly triangulate the launch platform's position.
• Force Nullification: The engraved bloodsteel sheath and gravitic charge calibration rely on Sith runic harmonics to stabilize the shockwave discharge and amplify directional energy. When under Force Nullification these harmonics are disrupted, weakening the coherence of the gravitic implosion. This can reduce penetrative power and cause the distortion field to dissipate prematurely, limiting both structural damage and sensor interference.

The Gravespire Concussion Missile Mk. I was born from the Kainate's doctrine that no bastion should withstand a Sith's will. Conceived in the smoldering manufactories beneath Malsheem, it represents the culmination of decades of experimentation with gravitic munitions, seismic eruption, and focused kinetic disruption. Where ordinary concussion warheads merely rupture bulkheads, the Gravespire seeks to annihilate them, to shatter the backbone of an enemy flagship in a single, dreadful impact.

Forged within a reinforced casing of alchemized Sarrassian iron and wrapped in bloodsteel etched with Sith runes of entropy, each missile is a brutal expression of Sith warfare. The Gravitic Pulverizer Core compresses and releases energy in a precisely tuned wavefront capable of flattening corridors and collapsing hangar decks into slag. As the warhead strikes, the Void Echo Disruption Field blossoms, confusing enemy targeting and masking allied maneuvers under a haze of false sensor returns.

Though the Gravespire is heavy and resource-intensive to manufacture, its effect on the battlefield is unmistakable. Ships struck by it often display gaping hull wounds, twisted bulkheads, and crippled reactor conduits. Yet the weapon comes with cost, its thermal signature is a flare to every enemy sensor, and its bulk ensures only a limited supply can be carried per sortie.

To the Kainate, these tradeoffs are not shortcomings but proof of purpose: that some weapons exist not for harrying or suppression, but for the singular work of finality. Where the Gravespire falls, the line breaks.

 

[MANIAC]

Darth Prazutis

As usual, amazing! I'd like to ask you to add the usual Force suppression/nullification weakness to the weaknesses.

 

[Darth Prazutis]

MANIAC Done!

 

[MANIAC]

Darth Prazutis

Thank you!

Approved.