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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
After encountering several First Order warships equipped with extensive ECM components designed to thwart conventional missiles, President Quee requested that a design team make a warhead more capable of penetrating through these defenses. The resulting program produced the Starcore Concussion Missile. In terms of basic combat performance, it is an exceptionally average warhead. It is, however, according the President's request, a warhead that is resistant to the proliferation of ECM devices commonly being encountered.
The Starcore uses a basic concussion missile chassis made out of plasteel, making it backwards compatible w ith most starfighter-grade warhead launchers. 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 Starcore 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 Starcore 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 Starcores 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 Starcore's sensors are not designed to hunt stealth or cloaked ships, and typically are not appreciably better than conventional concussion missiles in that respect. As the missile hits the target, the detonite within the missile activates its shaped charge. This doesn't lead to an omnidirectional blast, but rather focuses on penetration by using focused molten mirrsteel jet designed to cut through heavy armor plating and then destroy or damage the material behind the armor plating. This leads to Starcores being described as surgical kill weapons: while the outside of the target may not look terribly damaged, the molten spray of mirrsteel has shredded or superheated the internals behind the plating. Nonetheless, the Starcore does produce a concussive blast like most other concussion missiles, but it is noticeably smaller, as much of the energy is directed specifically through this molten metal jet.
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 Starcores are thus commonly found in the ordinance bays of Galactic Alliance and Silver Jedi starfighter hangars. Unsurprisingly, the warhead is also used by Lucerne Labs, and by its extension, the Directorate.
Intent: To provide a starfighter-grade missile that is less susceptible to the current widespread ECM capabilities of many ships
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Manufacturer: Lucerne Labs
Model: Starcore-class Concussion Missile
Affiliation: Galactic Alliance, Silver Jedi, Directorate, Closed-Market
Modularity: None
Production: Minor
Material: Plasteel fuselage, Detonite-mirrsteel shaped charge, chemical propellant, various avionics
Classification: Starfighter-grade concussion missile
Size: Average
Weight: Average
Ammunition Type: Warhead
Ammunition Capacity: 1 Shaped Mirrsteel-Detonite Charge
Reload Speed: Average
Effective Range: Average
Rate of Fire: Average
Stopping Power: Average
Recoil: Average
Detonite Charge: Starcores have a shaped charge Mirrsteel-Detonite core. While this only provides relatively average amounts of damage, detonite's ability to detonate based only on impact alone means that even if its actual detonating device is deactivated, it will still explode on contact.
Composite Gravity/EPR tracking: Starcores use 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 Starcores not as easily fooled by conventional sensor jamming.
Chemical Drive: Starcores use a solid fuel slug, much like the Vulture Drone, to propel the warhead. Using a chemical reaction for propulsion means that it cannot be shut off by electronic countermeasures.
ECM Resistant: Starcore's primary advantage over other conventional concussion missiles 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: Starcores 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.
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 on the home ship if the ship is jarred or experiences a sudden impact.
Low Maneuverability: Starcore's high velocity also means that it is not as maneuverable in close-quarters dogfights.
After encountering several First Order warships equipped with extensive ECM components designed to thwart conventional missiles, President Quee requested that a design team make a warhead more capable of penetrating through these defenses. The resulting program produced the Starcore Concussion Missile. In terms of basic combat performance, it is an exceptionally average warhead. It is, however, according the President's request, a warhead that is resistant to the proliferation of ECM devices commonly being encountered.
The Starcore uses a basic concussion missile chassis made out of plasteel, making it backwards compatible w ith most starfighter-grade warhead launchers. 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 Starcore 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 Starcore 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 Starcores 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 Starcore's sensors are not designed to hunt stealth or cloaked ships, and typically are not appreciably better than conventional concussion missiles in that respect. As the missile hits the target, the detonite within the missile activates its shaped charge. This doesn't lead to an omnidirectional blast, but rather focuses on penetration by using focused molten mirrsteel jet designed to cut through heavy armor plating and then destroy or damage the material behind the armor plating. This leads to Starcores being described as surgical kill weapons: while the outside of the target may not look terribly damaged, the molten spray of mirrsteel has shredded or superheated the internals behind the plating. Nonetheless, the Starcore does produce a concussive blast like most other concussion missiles, but it is noticeably smaller, as much of the energy is directed specifically through this molten metal jet.
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 Starcores are thus commonly found in the ordinance bays of Galactic Alliance and Silver Jedi starfighter hangars. Unsurprisingly, the warhead is also used by Lucerne Labs, and by its extension, the Directorate.
