D I R E C T O R
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a powerful and effective anti-starfighter missile for the use of capital ships.
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- Manufacturer: Roble Manufacturing
- Affiliation: Closed-Market
- Model: M11 Chieftain Point-Defense Missile
- Modularity: None
Production: Mass-Produced
- Material: Missile Components, Onboard Targeting System, Precision Flight Boosters, Kuradium Warhead, Ammonium Nitrate
- Classification: Point-Defense Missile
- Size: Average
- Weight: Average
- Ammunition Type: Kuradium Warhead
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Reload Speed: N/A
- Effective Range: Long-Range
- Rate of Fire: N/A
- Stopping Power: High
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- The Chieftain features inbuilt targeting sensors that lock onto a ship's electronic and thermal signature.
- The Chieftain features precision boosters that allow for more agile flight than most modern missile systems.
- The Chieftain's targeting systems lock onto a starfighter through the launcher's targeting system, and the lock is transferred to the missile upon firing.
- Swift and Agile: The Chieftain missile is built with precision thrusters that allow it to make tight manuevers while fast-tracking a target. The missile can make quick directional changes and can practically mirror a starfighter's flight pattern.
- Big-Brain Targeting System: The Chieftain missile's features an in-built targeting system, which interfaces with the targeting system of its corresponding missile launcher. Identifying the target to the Chieftain missile, the missile then fast-tracks it's target fighter through the target's thermal and electronic signatures.
- Needs Assistance: The Chieftain cannot lock onto a target without the aid of an outside targeting system, which limits the emplacements that the Chieftain missile can be effectively used in.
- Pew Pew: The Chieftain can be shot down by conventional weaponry such as laser cannons, limiting it's effectiveness somewhat against starfighters equipped with anti-missile defenses.
The M11 Chieftain Point-Defense Missile is designed to be a missile that can quickly and effectively hit it's target on the mark. Roble Manufacturing emphasized including advanced targeting systems in the design of the missile, expanding from the traditional thermal-only tracking pattern to include tracking of a ship's electronic signature. The missile is also built with extreme precision thrusters that enable it to mirror a ship's flight patterns and altogether lessen the ability of a starfighter to 'throw off' the missile through advanced maneuvering. However, the Chieftain is limited somewhat in it's targeting by requiring an outside targeting system to help the missile lock onto the target, and the fact that anti-missile defenses (such as rear-facing turrets) are quite effective in gunning down the Chieftain.
