Grand Shepherd Burtch
Fleet Commander For The Nomadic Peoples Coalition
“Time to spread the love, boys!”
~ Sergeant
Daro Roz’yrn
, 876 ABY ~
~ Sergeant
Daro Roz’yrn
, 876 ABY ~
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a standard issue personal rocket launcher for the troops of the Nomadic Peoples Coalition military.
- Image Source: (X)
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: (X)
- Primary Source:
- Reverse engineered from this
- Manufacturer: Dar'Manda Industries
- Affiliation:
- Nomadic Peoples Coalition
- Navis Sacra Religion
- Customers of Dar’Manda Industries
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: Cupid Heavy Rocket Launcher MK1
- Modularity: Yes. Can use different kinds of ammunition:
- High explosive rockets
- ION rockets
- Production: Mass Production
- Material:
- Alusteel structure
- Case-hardened Doonium for heat resistant components
- Electronic components
- Computerized Interface Scope
- Classification: Personal Rocket Launcher
- Size: Large
- Weight: Heavy
- Ammunition Type: Interchangeable Guided Rockets:
- High explosive
- ION
- Ammunition Capacity: Extremely Small (1 round magazine)
- Effective Range: Extreme
- Rate of Fire: None (Must be reloaded after every shot)
- Damage Output: Extreme
- Recoil: Very Low
- Guided rockets - ordinance can follow a target for a long time and perform course corrections and obstacle avoidance with exceptional agility.
- Target telemetry receiver/transmitter - target data can be imported via transmission from a remote source, and can also be transmitted from these weapons to other receivers.
- HUD OS interface - software meshes seamlessly with Nomadic Peoples Coalition standard equipment that uses the Angel Navis Operating System. The Computerized Interface Scope is included to assist with this.
- Anti-hacking/malware software - the electronics systems in these weapons are very difficult to corrupt and exploit.
- All environments - Ideal for vacuum EVA or planetside
- Percussion and proximity based detonator - if the proximity based detonator in the warhead is electronically disabled, the percussion based detonator still works.
- Minimal recoil - easy to fire when fighting in space EVA combat with a jetpack
- Accurate - the ability to lock onto a distant target allows the guided rocket to track a target and make course corrections.
- Long legs - The rocket can travel many kilometres before running out of fuel.
- High yield- the warhead that is launched is extremely powerful in all variants.
- High explosive - powerful enough to destroy an average Starfighter or main tank.
- ION - disables an average troopship or a main tank.
- Big - heavy and large, it is not always easy to manage on the battlefield. It is especially cumbersome in small tunnels or ventilation shafts, where it is rendered useless.
- Low Volume of fire - the user gets one shot off and then has to reload. The user can have a fellow soldier help with the reloading to reduce time in between shots, but still struggles to keep up a high volume of fire.
- Unsubtle - Given the nature of the ordnance, how it is self propelled and explodes on impact, and the fact that the launcher itself is so big, it is very much counterproductive to bring on a stealth mission.
- Bulky Ammunition - It is difficult for soldiers to carry a lot of spare rockets into the battlefield, limiting the use of these launchers to key moments of tactical consideration. Only on rare occasions, individual launcher operators are allowed to to fire off a shot without the orders of a superior. (OOC: individual spare rockets must be accounted for in RP)
This is a Dar’Manda Industries product, made primarily for the Nomadic Peoples Coalition under Loreena Arenais-Valhoun’s ownership. It was designed by Viken Dobson and was commissioned by
Grand Shepherd Burtch
. It is extremely powerful, and gives Coalition troops the ability to wield heavy firepower in a pinch. It operates just as well in space as it does planetside. Like so many technologies that the Coalition uses, this piece is derived from older Elysium Empire (now the Imperium) technology and redressed for use in the Coalition. This is due to the fact that the Coalition is made up of individuals that live on Damascus Station, and grew to become fed up with the Elysium system. They took weapons and gear from the Elysium armoury that was on the station and reverse engineered it to their own needs. This rocket launcher is reversed engineered from the Lynx MK2 Rocket Launcher.
A special feature that this weapon has, of note, is the ability to import target-lock data from an external source. This allows the user to fire on a target when he does not have line-of-site view of the target. Alternatively, the user can share his/her own target lock data with other rocket launchers or receivers with the same capability.
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