John Locke
V U L K A N
- Intent: To submit an new direct-impact missile for Locke and Key Mechanics to sell
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- Top Image: Star Citizen | Stalker V Missile
- Banners and Photoshop work: By me
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- Primary Source:
- Manufacturer: Locke and Key Mechanics
- Affiliation: Locke and Key Mechanics
- Market Status: Closed
- Model: Lylek Missile Mk. I
- Modularity: No
- Production: Mass-Produced
- Materials:
- Durasteel
- Electronics
- Ultrachrome
- Classification: Capital Missile
- Size: Very Large
- Weight: Extremely Heavy
- Explosive Type: Advanced Nuclear
- Delivery Method: Self-Propelled/Launched
- Effective Range: Battlefield
- Area Of Effect: Personal
- Damage Output: Extreme
- Propulsion and Maneuvering:
- Launch: The Lylek is designed to be launched from an assisted launch system, using a railgun or gravimetric launchers to provide it an initial burst of speed. Note: While designed to be launched from an assisted launch system, it can be fired from a normal capital missile weapon, however this will slow it down decreasing it’s overall survivability.
- Mid-course: During the main element of its journey towards its target the Lylek utilizes the gravity-powered propulsion of the Huabing drive to carry it forward towards its target.
- Terminal: During its final attack run on its target, the Lylek fires off an Ion Engine, giving it a last minute burst of speed. At this point the Huabing will switch to a purely maneuvering system, juking the missiles from left to right in order to allow it to avoid oncoming point defense fire.
- Guidance and Tracking
- Launch: During its launch phase the Lylek downloads a data package from it’s launch ship which contains the data on it’s target and the route it’s been sent on as well as data on the defenses of its target and any friendly IFF signatures in the area.
- Mid-course: Datalinks provide constant updates to the data package on the missile, providing updates on the evolving nature of the battlefield the missile will have to fight in.
- Terminal: When the missile gets close enough to its target to trigger the terminal flight sequence the data package is locked in and will not accept further commands to shut down, and further command updates are to be given via a encrypted laser link, though these commands only deal with when to trigger the termal boost and pathing instructions. This is, in particular, to prevent the effects of the Missile Deactivation Transmitters. The missiles can be programmed to follow a few specific paths.
- Programmed Target: The default mode of the missile is to be programmed to attack a specific target, during the terminal phase the missile’s sensors will lock onto the signature of the target allowing it to home in on it. The additional speed and maneuvering available during it’s terminal phase allows the missile to find the best possible attack profile.
- Anti-ECM: If the missile loses its target, for any reason, it will switch it’s attack profile, targeting the most powerful enemy ECM signature it can locate nearby.Unless specifically chosen, the Anti-ECM tracking is an alternate function.
- Terminal Seeking: The Missiles can be blind launched in a direction, and will switch to active tracking, when they reach their terminal trigger is activated. The missiles can seek out the closest enemy target to engage them. This mode is mostly used when area denial is needed but is not a preferred mode for the missiles to be used in for maximum impact.
- Contact Missile
- Shield Penetration: The Ultrachrome plating on the tip of the missile utilizes the metal’s unique characteristic of being able to reflect physical and energy attacks, letting the missiles penetrate through point defence envelopes and shields to impact their targets.
- Anti-matter warhead: The Lylek possess a warhead which contains a sphere of antimatter held in a magnetic field. Once the warhead impacts a surface, normally the armour of a ship or station, the magnetic field is disrupted causing the antimatter to annihilate, causing a massive explosion which is amongst the most powerful that science can produce. The power of this explosion is a shipkiller, potentially capable of breaking apart even the toughest of ships. However, the missile needs to impact the target to do any damage.
- Extended Range
- The Lylek’s grav drive allows it to travel through space without using up it’s fuel, as long as the missile remains powered
- High survivability
- Shields: The Lylek is equipped with a set of Duban Magnetic Shields which are able to provide it significant protection from kinetic and energy based point defense fire.
- Maneuverability: The Huabing gravimetric drive allows the missile to dance across space, performing feats of maneuverability that would be seen as impossible for a normal missile. It doesn’t need to change it’s heading or speed in order to shift in any direction making it very hard to get a solid lock onto.
- Ultrachrome Tip: The Ultrachrome tip of the missile is able to reflect some of the incoming energy and physical fire giving it even more of a chance of survival in the modern battlefield.
- Sensors
- The Lylek comes equipped with a capable sensor package which it can use to examine the battle space around it, determining how best to approach a target for maximum efficiency.
- Since active sensors are easily targeted the Lylek travels most of the way to it’s target without them, relying on the data package and control provided by its mothership to navigate space. It is only when the terminal phase is activated that the sensors come on, making it more easily targetable for that period short period before impact, but also making it easier for the onboard droid brain to avoid incoming laser fire.
- Incredible Destructive Power:
- The warhead of the Lylek contains a magnetic umbrella containing a sphere of anti-matter, the 'venom' of this predator. When the anti-matter held within comes in contact with matter, the resulting explosion is devastating, potentially capable of crippling or destroying a capital ship by itself.
- Long-ranged:
- The Lylek is designed to travel across a battlefield, carrying it’s deadly payload to the enemy, while the launching ship can sit safely out of the range of its opponents. Utilising the gravitational propulsion technology of the Huabing Drive the Lylek is able to maintain it’s maneuverability even while operating at significant speeds.
- Survivable:
- The Lylek is designed to deliver the payload to the enemy, with multiple systems working together to enable this. The warhead is coated in Ultrachrome, allowing it to shrug off some incoming energy fire. The missile is also protected by energy shielding allowing it to shrug off a surprising amount of enemy fire before it’s destroyed. Combined with the missile’s gravity drive it can be a tough nut to crack.
- Data Reliant:
- In order to prevent its active sensors from making the Lylek a target it is heavily reliant on the data packages uploaded and updated by the ship that launches it. If the data package is blocked, or contains incomplete information due to ECM the missile will act on the incorrect information.
- Larger than Average:
- The Lylek is not a small missile, more equivalent to a small fighter than an average missile. While this gives it more range and explosive power, it also means that it is a more vulnerable target. Not just to point defences, but also to fighters and other small craft.
- A hammer, not a scalpel:
- The Lylek is designed to be used against larger ships and stations, smaller ships will find it laughably easy to avoid the missile.
The history of warfare is one of constant evolution as the introduction of new weapons prompted the rise of new defensive technologies. It’s a never-ending cyclical trend that pushed warfare from the club to the sword, the pike to the gun and then the blaster and turbolaser. Since the introduction of the turbolaser however, the technological drive that pushed armament technologies onward seems have slowed and faded. While technologies had seen small incremental changes, there have been no massive changes to the status quo of combat for some time now.
This is a situation that Locke and Key Mechanics hopes to change with the advent of their super-long range missiles.
Built on the same frame as the Dancer Mk. II the Lylek is a direct damage missile, using a sphere of antimatter as a destructive weapon. Upon impact, the antimatter will annihalate using the missile and the armour and hull of the ship itself to create a devastating explosion which has the potential to destroy a capital ship. Aside from its devastating destructive power, the Lylek’s most dangerous element is its range. Thanks to the huabing gravitation engine that moves it, the missile can be fired to engage targets from far beyond their ability to strike back without any concerns about fuel, since the fuel is only used to provide acceleration during the terminal phrase. Thanks to the missile’s defenses and the tactical data and support it can receive from both Dancer Missiles and it’s launching fleet the Lylek represents the start of a new evolution of missile doctrine.
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