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Approved Tech Starbolt-class Missile

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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
  • Manufacturer: Lucerne Labs
  • Affiliation: Directorate, Silver Jedi, Closed Market
  • Model: Starbolt-class Missile
  • Modularity: No
  • Production: Mass-Produced
  • Material: Plasteel fuselage, Detonite charge, chemical propellant, various avionics and concussion missile components
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
  • Classification: Missile
  • Size: Small
  • Weight: Light
  • Explosive Type: Detonite explosive charge
  • Delivery Method: Self-Propelled
  • Effective Range: Average
  • Area Of Effect: Personal (4.5 meter blast radius)
  • Stopping Power: Low
SPECIAL FEATURES
  • Detonite Charge: Starbolts have a Detonite-based explosive charge. While not as powerful as many concussion missiles due to the Starbolt’s small size, the Starbolt does a a similar blast radius to its predecessor, making it ideal for precision strikes against small targets. Thanks to the missile’s relatively high speed, the Starbolt will detonate based only on impact alone means that even if its actual detonating device is deactivated.
  • Composite Gravity/EPR tracking: Starbolt uses combined gravity and infrared photoreceptors signatures, like GAM missiles, to track targets. These sensor signatures are typically harder to spoof and/or jam, especially as joint criteria for targeting, which makes Starbolts not as easily fooled by conventional sensor jamming.
  • Chemical Drive: Starbolts use a solid fuel slug, much like the Vulture Drone, to propel the warhead. Once the reaction has been started, it cannot be stopped. This means that it cannot be shut off by electronic countermeasures.
  • Compact: Starbolts are built based on the 3t3 chassis, making it a very light and small weapon compared to many concussion missiles. This also allows the weapon to be employed with LPD’s Shockwave missile launcher, Plumbata defensive missile batteries, and existing PLX-2M launchers. Most concussion missile warhead launchers can support the Starbolt, and even carry larger numbers of the warhead than traditional concussion missiles due to their significantly smaller size - on Lucerne Lab’s own LLT-7 General Purpose Warhead Launcher, three Starbolts can be carried instead of a concussion missile.
STRENGTHS
  • ECM Resistant: Starbolt's primary advantage over the 3t3 it is replacing isn't in its basic performance, but rather that it includes design components and philosophies to make it resistant to the recent proliferation of ECM technologies.
  • Fast: Starbolts use a chemical solid fuel motor that is optimized for speed rather than maneuverability, making it exceptionally fast for a missile. This can make the missile harder to react to by active defenses (since it has less flight time) and also ensures that the detonite charge will explode on impact.
  • Compact: Starbolts are small warheads, which easily allows personnel and droids to carry and use them in personal weapons or for large amounts to be carried by starships.
WEAKNESSES
  • Detonite Charge: While using a detonite charge ensures that the warhead will still explode on contact, it also introduces the possibility that the warhead will prematurely detonate if the launcher is jarred or experiences a sudden impact.
  • Low Maneuverability: Starbolt's high velocity also means that it is not as maneuverable in close-quarters dogfights.
  • Low Damage: Starbolts do not produce as much outright damage as other concussion missiles due to their small size.

DESCRIPTION
Lucerne Labs has used the aging 3t3 missile in many products for a long time due to the weapon’s low price, compactness, and reasonable performance. As the battlefield continued to evolve, especially with a proliferation of electronic warfare among conventional enemies and the tech-dampening abilities of the marauding Bryn’adul, the 3t3’s inability to easily adapt to these issues lead the company to design their own warhead that could cope with these developments. To that end, Lucerne Labs took the basic 3t3 chassis and adapted technologies found on the company’s Starcore-class Concussion Missile to it.

The Starbolt uses the basic 3t3 missile chassis, but now made out of plasteel, making it backwards compatible with existing 3t3 launch platforms. The rear of the plasteel fuselage houses a simple solid fuel chemical rocket optimized for speed rather than maneuverability. After being jettisoned from the launcher, a chemical reaction begins to slowly progress, causing a steady, controlled combustion process that propels the missile at high speed towards its target. The Starbolt is guided towards its targets through a dual-seeker target acquisition based on gravitational signature and an uncooled imaging infrared sensor. By using a composite image criteria, the Starbolt is not easily effected by conventional, brute force jamming, as it is difficult to disguise or jam a heat signature, and it is usually difficult to disguise a gravitational signature as well. This does not make Starbolts impossible to defeat with electronic warfare however, as exceptional sensor decoys can replicate the signatures of their parent craft. Some vessels are also capable of hiding their gravity signature through a variety of technologies or by certain tactics. It goes without saying that Starbolt's sensors are not designed to hunt stealth or cloaked ships, and typically are not appreciably better than conventional missiles in that respect. As the missile hits the target, the detonite explodes because of the missile’s high speed. This produces a omnidirectional explosive blast of roughly 4.5 meters, making it roughly comparable to a 3t3 missile. This blastis typically strong enough to take out airspeeders and “soft-skin” ground vehicles in a single hit and while usually not strong enough to outright destroy the average starfighter or armored vehicle, it can severely cripple vehicles by outright destroying subcomponents on those vehicles. Many users use several missiles to destroy such harder targets. The relatively small blast radius and power of this missile also makes it ideal for precision ground strikes while leaving a minimum of collateral damage.

Like most military grade weaponry, Lucerne Labs has so far restricted their sales of this weapon to established governments with similar political views to those of the company's leadership. Most Starbolts have unsurprisingly been sold to Silver Jedi-aligned governments and the Directorate. Large numbers have also been supplied to resistance organizations supplied by the Directorate through its Directorate Trade Agents.
 
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