Approved Ranged Weapon ZZT "Vertigo" Incendiary Missile Pod

[Helix]

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

• Intent: To create a small-scale vehicular missile launcher for the Helix Privateers
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• Primary Source: N/A

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

• Manufacturer: Helix Privateers
• Affiliation: Helix Privateers
• Market Status: Closed-Market
• Model: ZZT Vertigo
• Modularity: Yes
• Production: Mass-Produced
• Material: Helsteel, Storm Iron, Helglass, X18

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

• Classification: Launcher/Incendiary
• Size: Large
• Weight: Heavy
• Ammunition Type: Incendiary X18 missiles
• Ammunition Capacity: Large
• Effective Range: Long Range
• Rate of Fire: Very Low
• Damage Output: Very High
• Recoil: Very High

SPECIAL FEATURES

• Launches radiotoxic munitions
• Aftershock-integrated

STRENGTHS

• Burn It: The Vertigo launches incendiary, highly radioactive warheads over significant distances. As such, it is effective against infantry, light vehicles, and structures.

WEAKNESSES

• Cookoff: Like many weapons of this sort, the Vertigo is vulnerable to catastrophic chain-reactions should it be damaged.

DESCRIPTION

The Vertigo is a light surface-to-surface/surface-to-air missile launcher intended primarily to be mounted on vehicles.

As such, its size and weight are considerable, but on a vehicle or fixed emplacement, this weapon has its virtues.

The Vertigo is designed to deploy explosive chemical payloads at distances far greater than infantry can typically reach. As such, its normal warheads are condensed X18 munitions. This horrific substance needs no introduction, as it has burned cities and poisoned landscapes the galaxy over. The Vertigo is simply a method of delivery.

These computer-guided missiles are contact-detonated, and shower a wide area of effect in their vile chemical passenger. X18 can cheerfully eat through metal, stone, flesh, and bone, and as such these missiles pose enormous risks to infantry within their radius.

As X18 is profoundly radioactive, even brief exposure can potentially cause numerous serious health problems, to say nothing of the initial thermal shock and 4th-degree burns the substance is capable of causing.

As such, the Vertigo is capable of threatening infantry, buildings, light or medium vehicles, aircraft, or most anything else that enters its radius of fire.

This includes its carrier if the launcher should take a bad enough hit, as X18 munitions cookoffs are the stuff of legends.

 

[Noah Corek]

As simple as an incendiary/chemical warhead launcher can be. I would be remiss to remind you when using this weapon that your OPPONENT call hits.

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