Approved Tech SoroSuub Hedgehog Weapon System

[Fen]

Image Credit: SoroSuub logo by viperaviator​

Intent: Ship Component
Development Thread: N/A
Manufacturer: SoroSuub

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http://starwarsrp.net/topic/11422-sorosuub-corporation/

Model: SS Hedgehog Weapon System
Affiliation: Galactic Alliance
Modularity: Capital Ship Component
Production: Mass-Produced
Material: Durasteel, Baradium
Classification: Advanced Mine Layer
Size: Ship-Mounted
Length: 10m
Weight: 10 metric kilotonnes
Ammunition Type: Seeker Mines, Ion Mines
Ammunition Capacity: 50 per salvo
Effective Range: 2,000 meter conic spread
Rate of Fire: Single Salvo
Special Features: N/A
Description:
The SS Hedgehog weapon system is a fixed launching emplacement that allows a ship equipped with it to rapidly eject a spread of seeker mines in salvoes of fifty in order to cover a wide area in space. Seeker mines will home in, latch onto, and then detonate against the hull of a ship not broadcasting friendly IFF that enters their proximity. They are hard to detect when dormant.

Alternatively, the Hedgehog can fire a spread of ion mines, which will lay dormant until a ship enters their proximity and will then detonate into an ion cloud, disabling electronics in the area.


Equates to 3 heavy warhead launchers.

Canon Source: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Space_mine

 

[ADM. Reshmar]

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[ADM. Reshmar]

[member="Ryan Korr"]

Manufacturer: SoroSuub

please hyperlink the manufacturer

Weight: 30kg

this is light for something 10 meters in size. This is bigger than a dump truck which weighs 25,401,173 kg or about 25,000 pounds. Now IM sure it would not weigh as much as a dump truck but it would be in that ball park.

Make the weight 10 metric kilotonnes, Thats about half as heavy as a dump truck the same size.

Size: Ship-Mounted

Ammunition Capacity: 50 per salvo

Effective Range: 2,000 meter conic spread

about what size vessel do you see this on?

Something small throwing out 50 mines to a range of 2km over and over would not work. I get the launching mines. I love mine launchers and 2km is long range for a mine launcher but doable. But something slugging out 50 such mines is a bit extreme. If this were a one shot deal that would be cool. or if it was meant for destroyers, that too would be ok with ammo. But this is slinging more mines than 2 full squadrons of bombers can in one go. A standard Bomb Bay holds 2 mines and cost 2 defensive weapons per the exchange chart. That would make this something on the order of 25 turbolaser cannons equivalency.

I feel it should count as 3 heavy warhead launchers when figuring how this compares to other weapons. That would balance out the power, range, and size of the weapon. This is a very powerful system that can throw alot of mines a long way at one time. Call it 3 heavy warhead launchers and edit the weight and its good to go.

 

[Fen]

[member="Reshmar"], edited.

 

[ADM. Reshmar]

Awesome. Pending Admin Approval. Thanks! [member="Spencer Jacobs"]

 

[Allyson Locke]

Approved.