Mandalorian Mystic
Ionite Assault Torpedo/X
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a prototype of future Ionite Torpedo technology weapons
- Image Source: 3DArtistOnline
- Canon Link: Ionite
- Restricted Missions: The Quest for Ionite
- Primary Source: N/A
- Manufacturer: Kryze Incorporated
- Model: Ionite Assault Torpedo/X
- Affiliation: Kryze Incorporated, Closed-Market
- Modularity: No.
- Production: Semi-Unique
- Material: Aluplas, Titanium, Ionite, Detonation Charge
- Classification: Ion/EMP
- Size: Large
- Weight: Heavy
- Ammunition Type: Ionite Assault Torpedo
- Ammunition Capacity: 1 (per torpedo)
- Reload Speed: Low
- Effective Range: Long Range
- Rate of Fire: Low
- Stopping Power: Extreme
- Recoil: None
- An oversized ionite torpedo designed to devestate shields on vessels, either aboard a vessel used in a support role in fleet engagements or as a fast-attack role in smaller engagements. Comes in capital ship grade only.
- The Ionite warhead deals extreme levels of shield damage.
- The oversized nature of the weapon increases the damage dealt.
- The weapon can only deal shield damage, it cannot even disrupt systems once the shields are down.
- Oversized torpedos take up more space aboard vessels than standard torpedos and require larger launchers.
An outsized torpedo with a compressed ionite warhead. These torpedos can deal absolutely catastrophic damage to the shields of any vessel of crusier sized or smaller, and puts a considrable dent at the very least in larger vessels. However the ionite warheads deal absolutely no damage at all to the hull or systems of a vessel - their negative polarization charges can strip any shield currently designed, but do not affect anything else in the course of normal operation.
The outsided torpedos present additional issues as they require larger than standard launchers and take additional mass aboard any vessel, meaning that any vessel using them will have a smaller supply than of standard sized torpedos.
An additional difficulty is the tendency of Ionite to ruin all electronics - guidance, timers, that sort of thing - the actual mass of ionite in the weapon is relatively low, when detonated it mixes with the release charge and produces a wave of alternately charged particles of matter. However, the presence of the Ionite in the torpedo still is problematic, as a consequence the warhead charge is held in a shielded component at the front of the missile which rapidly cycles been charge states to protect the electronics behind it, with the guidance package as far away as possible, the charge can be detonated by proximity or impact on the shield surface. As a final safety precaution, oversized launchers must be used to keep the launch coils far from the ionite charge, and due to the short life of the battery powering the missle shield, the missiles electronics are not armed until launch to prevent premature degredation. This, combined with their special handling requirements is reflected in their slow loading time.
The current design is a very limited (semi-unique, for clarity) production run prototype, intended to be used with an exceptionally high Ionite charge and other shipboard equipment to allow for a style of combat more preferable to certain Mandalorian clients, but also for resale to bounty hunters and as a testbed for future ionite weaponry design. It is expected by Kryze Engineers that to produce practical weapons using these Ionite charges a new revolution in polarity-phase explosives will be needed, or a smaller warhead charge (and thus torpedo size) will have to be adopted.
