Shuklaar Kyrdol
CEO of Breshig War Forge Consolidated
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a fast, agile, deadly brilliant missile to engage heavily armored vehicles, especially those using NERA and ERA systems.
- Image Source: Here.
- Canon Link: N/A.
- Permissions: N/A.
- Primary Source: Tra'beviin-class Brilliant Missile.
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
- Manufacturer: Breshig War Forge Consolidated.
- Affiliation: Breshig War Forge Consolidated and Strill Securities.
- Market Status: Closed-Market.
- Model: Getna-class Anti-Armor Brilliant Missile.
- Modularity: The missile has a modular variable warhead system, allowing the warheads to be easily swapped before loading.
- Production: Minor.
- Material: Duranium frame, reinforced Duraplast reinforcements, Reflec laced fiberplast coating, miscellaneous missile components and Ultrachrome wires and electronics.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
- Classification: Brilliant Anti-Armor Missile
- Size: Large.
- Weight: Very Heavy.
- Explosive Type:
- Getna-BT: Triple High-yield Baradium Charge.
- Getna-HEKP: High-yield Baradium Charge w/ Depleted Baradium Penetrator.
- Delivery Method: Self-Propelled.
- Effective Range: Extreme.
- Area Of Effect: Point Blank.
- Damage Output: Extreme.
SPECIAL FEATURES
- Targeting Mode(s):
- Air-to-ground: Air-to-ground targeting mode covers engaging of targets on the ground by airborne launch platforms.
- Guidance Mode(s):
- Active Homing:
- Pre-launch: The missile downloads sensor data, targeting and tracking information of the target as well as the IFF codes of all friendly assets in the area from the launch platform before launching.
- Launch: The missile acquires a sensor lock on target and begins accelerating toward the target.
- Midcourse: At this stage, the missile can switch to Home on Jam mode if the amount of interference is too high such that it loses its original target. If there is no interference yet the missile has lost track of its target, the missile will revert to inertial delayed active guidance mode. At this stage the missile determines whether to engage the 'top' of the target or its side or rear based on target orientation and the missile's altitude relative to the target.
- Terminal: The missile expends the remainder of its fuel in a high energy burn either in a low altitude approach at the target's closest flank/rear or in a high energy, steep angle dive at the 'top' of the target depending on what was 'decided' during the midcourse phase.
- Control Guidance:
- Pre-launch: The missile downloads sensor data, targeting and tracking information of the target as well as the IFF codes of all friendly assets in the area from the launch platform before launching.
- Midcourse: The missile receives updated targeting and tracking information from the launching platform via an encrypted frequency hopping comms link. At this stage the missile determines whether to engage the 'top' of the target or its side or rear based on target orientation and the missile's altitude relative to the target. Target engagement angle and exact flight path can still be programmed by the launching platform, however. If at any point in the midcourse phase the missile loses communications with the launch platform, it reverts to home on jam guidance. If for whatever reason there is no hostile source of electronic interference, the missile switches to inertial delayed active guidance mode.
- Terminal: The missile expends the remainder of its fuel in a high energy burn either in a low altitude approach at the target's closest flank/rear or in a high energy, steep angle dive at the 'top' of the target depending on what was 'decided' during the midcourse phase.
- Waypoint Search and Destroy:
- Pre-launch: The missile downloads the waypoints and a sensor map of the area of the flight path charted out by the set of waypoints.
- Midcourse: The missile follows the waypoints using its own sensors to path find.
- Terminal:
- The missile attempts to locate a hostile target. Following acquisition of said target, the missile analyzes the area to ascertain what target it could most effectively engage.
- The missile then determines how best to engage said target based on relative orientation and altitude to the missile, apparent shield and hull strength, presence of point-defense, countermeasures and jamming.
- If enough interference prevents acquisition of said targets, the missile instead switches to home on jam targeting.
- Once the target has been analyzed, the missile expends the remainder of its fuel in a high energy burn either in a low altitude approach at the target's closest flank/rear or in a high energy, steep angle dive at the 'top' of the target.
- Home on Jam:
- Midcourse: If the missile switches to home on jam targeting during the midcourse phase, it will identify the strongest source of electronic interference that does not bare a friendly IFF signature and lock onto it.
- Inertial Delayed Active Guidance: The missile follows inertial guidance till the end of the midcourse phase, where it changes to active homing mode. This is useful for engaging targets at the end of the missile's range band, where its sensors, scanners and tracking systems may not be accurate enough to maintain a good lock and track.
- Salvo Mode: When fired in Active Homing or Waypoint mode or if the missile switches to home on jam and salvo mode is enabled, a 'predesignated' missile will network with the other missiles launched to share data for a better sensor picture and will additionally assess the targets in the area and assign targeting including of subcomponents such as individual batteries or exposed communications equipment on capital ships and stations. Alternatively, this missile can relay this information back to the launch platform if in range, and can receive targeting priority from it.
- Launch Mode(s):
- Standard Launch: If not loaded into a mass-driver missile launcher, the missile can still be launched normally.
- Hot: The container's gasses are vented and the missile's engines are activated straight away following the pre-launch sequence.
- Cold: The missile is cold launched from it's container out of the tube using gas expansion before the missile's engines are activated.
- Magnetically Accelerated Launch:
- Hot: The missile is magnetically accelerated out of the launch tube and then immediately activates its engines.
- Cold: The missile relies on initial launch velocity from the magnetic launch system to close the distance during the launch and mid course phase before activating its engines on full burn in the terminal phase.
- Standard Launch: If not loaded into a mass-driver missile launcher, the missile can still be launched normally.
- Detonation Mode(s):
- Impact: The missile detonates on impact.
- Post Terminal Self-destruct: If for whatever reason the missile does not detonate once the terminal phase boost is complete, it will detonate automatically at that point.
- Sensor, Scanner and Tracking Suite: The missile creates a composite sensor picture by cross checking data from all of its sensors when in guidance modes where it actively uses the to acquire/track targets.
- Dedicated Energy Receptor
- Electro Photoreceptor
- Long-range Heat Detector
- Long-range Energy Scanner
- Magnetic Signature Sensor
- Gravity-wave Anomaly Tracker
- Silhouette Signature Tracking
- Countermeasures Compensation Computer: The C3 analyzes any countermeasures the target deploys, such as jamming, "dummy" drones, flares or chaff, and predicts the target's path. The C3 continues to make minor adjustments up to the microsecond before the missile impacts.
- TibannaX burning IR suppressed thrust trace dampened vectral equipped ion-atmospheric hybrid drive w/ scramjet booster
- Etheric rudder(s)
- Tamper Detection: Any attempt to reprogram the missile including through the use of Mechu Deru and similar abilities will result in the missile either triggering a micro-ion charge to fry its own circuits.
Communications Systems:
- Encryption/Decryption Suite
- Location Spoofing/Scrambling:
- Communications Suite: When connected to compatible systems, the communication suite is an auto-negotiating, frequency hopping system with a self-modulating encryption key, making it extremely resistant to jamming and interception. The comm-lasers can mimic this by rapidly shifting their broadcast spectrum.
- Active Homing:
STRENGTHS
- Jammer/Countermeasure Resistant: The missile uses a composite sensor picture generated by cross checking data from its array of advanced sensors, scanners and tracking systems. This, combined with the countermeasures compensation computer drastically reduces the missiles vulnerability to jammers and countermeasures.
- Missile Deactivation Transmitter Immune: Once armed and active, there is no way to shut off the missile. Missile deactivation transmitters therefore cannot shut off the missile once it has been launched.
- Home on Jam: While certainly highly resistant to jamming, these missiles certainly are not immune to jamming. They possess a home on jam function that locks onto the strongest source of electronic interference that does not possess a friendly IFF signature.
- Low Profile: With a reflec laced fiberplast exterior, etheric rudders and an IR suppressed thrust trace dampened vectral-equipped ion-atmospheric hybrid drive burning TibannaX, the missile has a very low sensor signature, especially when performing a magnetically accelerated cold launch.
- Excellent Sensors, Scanners and Tracking: The missile possesses a wide variety of sensors, scanners and tracking systems, giving it a fantastic ability to detect and track targets.
- Fast, Nimble and Deadly: The Getna is extremely fast and nimble, easily able to keep up with, track and engage the fastest and most agile repulsor tanks and armored speeders despite its considerable mass thanks to its extremely powerful vectored drive and maneuvering system.
- Modular Warhead: The missile can be fitted with a either a triple high-yield baradium charge or a baradium-depleted baradium HEKP warhead. This process is simple enough that it can be carried out while the missile is in storage before it is loaded into a launcher.
- Resilient: The missile's frame allows it to weather point-defense fire and direct-attack countermeasures usually long enough to successfully engage its target.
WEAKNESSES
- Air-to-Ground Only: The Getna is only designed to engage ground targets and cannot be used to engage enemy capital ships, airspeeders, starfighters and the like.
- Not Stealth: Though possessing an extraordinarily small sensor profile for something of its size, the missile is in fact entirely detectable by particularly advanced military grade sensor suites, especially those that cross check data from different sensor and scanner systems such as the missile's own.
- It's Out There Somewhere: Targets with sensor systems advanced enough will know that the missile is present and tracking them thanks to its electronic warfare suite, however locating, tracking and engaging the missile is unlikely to be an easy task.
- Size Limitations: The missile's size and weight limit how many can be carried, especially by smaller launch platforms.
- Home on Jam: While the missiles home on jam capability does give it the capability to not be rendered useless by such systems, it can cause the missile to potentially lose track of its original target, such as in the case that the source of that jamming stems from another target entirely.
- Volatile: If it takes enough damage to sympathetically detonate the warhead inside the launch tube the missile is likely not only detonate spectacularly, but likely set off other ordnance as well.
- Velocity Dependent (HEKP): The HEKP model of the Getna requires the missile to have a high velocity prior to impact to be able to penetrate armor and hull plating effectively.
- Sensor Range (Control Guidance mode): The missile's range is very much affected by the range and resolution of the sensor suite of the launch platform.
DESCRIPTION
The Getna-class Anti-Armor missile was not excluded from the company's comprehensive ordnance upgrade program. With the prevalence of heavy and super-heavy armor only increasing on the battlefield, the necessity for a missile like the Getna only increased. The new Getna was based more heavily on the Tra'beviin-class Brilliant Missile, using that missile's frame, sensor, communication and propulsion as a base.
Replacing the old tandem warhead is a new triple high-yield baradium charge with the option to replace that warhead with a baradium-depleted baradium HEKP warhead. As part of the new ordnance framework the warhead is replaceable and can be changed out by maintenance personnel prior to loading. The Getna shares may of the same guidance methods as the Tra'beviin with the distinction being that the Getna is designed to engage either the flanks, rear or top of heavily armored vehicles.
The missile has a lot of advanced hardware to back up its advanced programming. The sensor, sensor and tracking suite features a number of advanced systems including but not limited to a gravity wave anomaly tracker, silhouette signature tracker and a countermeasures compensation computer. The missile's frame is made from Duranium and features reinforced Duraplast reinforcements and a combat de-ionizer, making it notably resilient for a missile to incoming damage from point-defense weapons and direct-attack countermeasures.
The entire frame however is covered in reflec laced fiberplast. This combined with the missile's TibannaX burning IR suppressed thrust trace dampened vectral equipped ion-atmospheric hybrid drive and etheric rudders gives the missile a very small sensor signature. Though possessing an extraordinarily small sensor profile for something of its size, the missile is in fact entirely detectable by particularly advanced military grade sensor suites, especially those that cross check data from different sensor and scanner systems such as the missile's own.
This stealthy powerplant gives the missile the speed and maneuverability to effectively engage the fastest and most agile repulsor tanks and armored speeders despite its considerable mass. The Getna's engagement method does preclude it from engaging anything other than ground targets, but in that tasking it is an extremely effective piece of ordnance.
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