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Approved Tech FAE/WH-04 Universal Missile Platform v1.1

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Manufacturer: First United Astral Engineering
Type: Ordinance
Market Status: Closed Market
Production: Mass-Produced
Weight: Average
Size: Average
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A FAE/WH-04-S4 class missile fitted with a plasma warhead.​
VERSION CHANGELOG
  • Version 1.1
    • Various Formatting and Wording Changes
    • Updated Iadrium Link
    • Added FAE/S-11 Universal Communication Matrix
    • Added O.S.I.V.P.
    • Added FAE/S-13 Unified Engagement Network
    • Added GPO-12 "Ironmaze" Threat-Prevention Suite
    • Removed Fyrirdögun Exterior Plating
      • Replaced with Ultrachrome Exterior Plating
    • Removed Liquid-Aenite Coating
    • Added Subaquatic Operation Functionality
    • Added Sensor Warning Receiver
    • Added Countermeasures Compensation Module
    • Added LPIR, Ghostwave, and Low-Feedback Systems
    • Added Flight Phases - Launch, Middle Course, and Terminal
    • Added Sensor Cross-Referencing
    • Added Ghost Sight Strength
    • Removed Storm Surge Strength -> Merged into Armored Predator Strength
    • Added Warhead on Forehead Strength
    • Added Commspromised Weakness
    • Added Wrong Address Weakness
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIAL FEATURES
  • Oversight and Administration
  • Data and Information Security
  • Power and Propulsion
  • Defensive Systems
  • Utility Systems
  • FAE/S-07 Offensive Retention System
  • FAE/S-11 Universal Communication Matrix - Stripped Down
  • Targeting Sensors
  • Droid Brain Targeting and Operations Protocols
    • Active Homing
      • Secondary Radiation Homing Protocols
        • Capable of homing in directly on sources of radiation and jamming.
    • Capable of independently tracking, acquiring, and reacquiring targets.
    • Capable of targeting weak points and specific vital points / structures in enemy units.
    • Capable of assessing enemy units to anticipate countermeasure deployment (i.e. taking different approach vectors to avoid point-defense fire, adjusting trajectories, etc.).
    • Loitering Capability
    • Flight Phases
      • Launch
        • The missile downloads a data packet from the launching vehicle which contains information on its designated target(s) and any other relevant factors, including friendly unit profiles and IFF signatures, targeting information, environmental conditions, target unit profile(s) (if available), and yet more. After this, it is launched directly from a launcher via its own engines or a launch assist system. It can also be “dropped” from the launcher by the host craft before firing its engines and setting off towards the target. During this stage, the missile acquires a target lock utilizing the launching vehicle’s sensors.
      • Middle Course
        • The missile initially uses data from the launching vehicle’s sensors and / or sensor data from other missiles. If launched in a group, one missile out of the group may be designated to turn on its own sensors, while the other missiles draw on sensor data from the launch vehicle and the sensors-active missile. During this stage, the data link gives the missile constant updates as conditions in the battlespace change. In addition, the missile will also utilize this stage to analyze the target’s countermeasures, point-defenses, and other anti-missile systems, during which the missile will prepare to engage (or engage) appropriate measures to defeat them. This stage may also see the missile fall back to radiation homing protocols in the incredibly unlikely, yet possible event that it loses its original target due to electromagnetic interference.
      • Terminal
        • During this stage, the missile accelerates to maximum Gs as it hones in on the target. It may also engage maneuvers to evade point-defenses, resist countermeasures, and ultimately ensure its integrity prior to reaching the target. This stage sees the missile turn on its own sensors, cross-referencing sensor data from the launch vehicle, other friendly missiles, and its own sensors to ensure full target verification.
    • Cooperative Engagement Data Link
      • Missiles can maintain a data link with the launch platform or any other allied unit, allowing them to receive and transmit targeting and sensor data mid-flight. This function may also be used to give the missile instructions post-launch.
      • FAE/S-13 Unified Engagement Network
    • Swarm Intelligence
      • Missiles are capable of communicating and coordinating with each other when launched.
    • Proportional Pursuit
      • Typically tracks target vector, rather than target itself.
    • Hot and Cold Launch Capability
      • Delayed Activation Functionality
        • If used in a fighter or flying vehicle, the missile’s engine and targeting systems can delay activation after the missile is dropped by the host craft, in order to conceal the exact location of the launching vehicle.
    • Proximity Detonation - Alternate Contact / Impact Detonation Setting
      • Prior to detonation, the system cross-references data across all sensors on the missile. This ensures that the missile can not be tricked into prematurely detonating by gravity fluctuations or other anomalies.
    • All-Aspect Capability
    • Alternate Remote Control Guidance Modes
      • Command Guidance, including but not limited to:
        • MCLOS
        • LOSBR
        • Coordinate Guidance
          • Missile is fed a specific set of geographic or space coordinates and guides itself to target.
    • Anti-Telekinetic / Tractor Pressor / Tractor Redirect Detonation Protocol
      • Upon registering an foreign influence shifting its course, the missile will explode if it can not otherwise escape from the influence or correct its trajectory, provided it is a safe distance away from friendly units or civilians (if programmed).
STRENGTHS
  • Expedited Delivery: Much like a proton torpedo, the universal missile is rated for accelerations over 10,000 G. Missiles from size S1 to S4 can make a 90-degree turn within a turning radius of less than a meter. Accordingly, it goes without saying that the universal missile is very fast and agile, potentially leaving targets very little time to put countermeasures into play.
  • Smart Missiles: Equipped with Brilliant tracking protocols, advanced artificial intelligence, and a full suite of sensors, the missiles are capable of tracking targets with such creativity, persistence, and intelligence that they could be considered semi-sentient. They are capable of reaching targets behind cover or obstructions. In addition, they have a limited, conditional ability to evade defensive fire by taking swerving, erratic trajectories towards their target. The missiles are also extremely aggressive and are able to reacquire their marks, even in the event they overshoot their target or otherwise miss their initial pass.
  • Warhead on Forehead: The energy-reflective nature of the ultrachrome exterior plating gives the missile a rather high chance of passing through energy shields, potentially allowing the warhead to inflict more damage directly on target.
  • Spectrum Lock: The missiles utilize a multi-spectrum target locking system, meaning that sensor data is cross-referenced in ongoing fashion. If one sensor or receptor type is blinded or confused by the deployment of countermeasures, the artificial intelligence can cross-reference to verify and restore the integrity of its sensor picture.
  • Armored Predator: The missile projects an energy envelope around itself when in flight which functions as a deflector shield, providing the warhead with good protection against point-defense fire, while also augmenting their aerodynamic performance. A laser-reflective ultrachrome exterior plating provides extra defense, in the event that the shield fails. Organoform circuitry, combat de-ionizers, and spare capacitors provide the missile a measure of redundancy to help it withstand EMP/Ion discharges and electrical/technology-draining effects. Finally, owing to a comprehensive data and information security suite, a semi-sentient droid brain, and the offensive retention system, the missiles are quite resistant to ECM, electromagnetic bursts, slicing attempts, and many forms of electronic warfare which rely on tricking, deceiving, hacking, or even outright deactivating their systems.
  • Ghost Sight: Virtually all of the missile’s sensors are enhanced by ghostwaves, low feedback technologies, and low-probability-of-intercept measures. These systems make the emitted sensor waves harder to trace and detect. While this does not conceal the missile by itself, it makes it considerably more difficult for sensor warning receivers, EM sensors, counterdetectives, and similar systems to register when sensor or scanning pulses are being used. As a result, targeted units generally have to commit to utilizing active scanners in order to detect the missile.
WEAKNESSES
  • Double Blade: Since it goes without saying that missiles explode, a penetrating shot to the missile magazines of a host unit might very well have catastrophic effects, especially since the energy envelope projectors do not activate until the missiles are launched.
  • Technological Corruption: Left unprotected, the missiles are susceptible to mechu-deru and other technology-twisting powers. A talented practitioner of such esoteric sorceries could induce a premature explosion or some other mechanical failure that might compromise the warhead entirely or demand precious time to reboot, leaving the operator vulnerable.
  • Warhead Types: The explosive/warhead type can easily be switched from one missile to another by trained technicians while the missile is in storage (provided the missiles are the same size class), but this can not be done while the missile is loaded into a magazine. In essence, once the missile is loaded into a launch cell, turret, or other launch platform its explosive type can not be changed unless it is removed.
  • Commspromised: In the event that the missile’s communications are by some means disabled or compromised, it will not be able to maintain or open a data link with the launching platform or any other unit in the network. In such a case, the missile will be forced to rely solely on its own sensors or the information from the initial data packet it received during the launch phase.
  • Wrong Address: As radiation homing is by nature imprecise, Should the missile lose track of its designated target due to electromagnetic interference, its radiation homing protocols will activate to drive the missile towards the strongest source of enemy jamming within the proximity. However, as radiation homing is by nature imprecise, this fallback measure will not always result in the missile homing in on the correct target, as the interference could have originated from another unit entirely.
DESCRIPTION
Representing the newest generation of First United Astral Engineering’s missile development program, the FAE/WH-04 Universal Missile Platform is a scalable, universal family of long range missiles designed to be deployed across a wide range of infantry, droid, vehicle, starship, turret, emplacement, and drone host units. Much like the systems that preceded it, the FAE/WH-04 is designed to accommodate modular warheads, allowing a missile’s payload to be swapped depending on mission requirements. However, the FAE/WH-04 incorporates far more options for size, with missiles ranging from small whistling bird-sized projectiles to larger assault-grade missiles designed for use in capital ships and heavy launch silos.

The FAE/WH-04 family of missiles has seven different sizes. FAE/WH-04-S1 missiles are the smallest size available and are designed to fit in most whistling bird launchers. These are designed to engage infantry and are generally effective against man-sized targets. The FAE/WH-04-S2 is the next largest size and is designed to scale with wrist rockets. This class is designed to engage infantry and most light vehicles.

From here, the FAE/WH-04-S3, FAE/WH-04-S4, and FAE/WH-04-S5 are considered to be intermediate classes. The FAE/WH-04-S3 is designated as a light missile. As such, it scales with missiles launched from man-portable shoulder-fired MANPADs or missile launchers. However, this class also sees frequent use on vehicles and fighters as a lighter missile option. Accordingly, these missiles are designed to engage vehicles and starfighters, with some additional utility if deployed against exterior equipment on capital ships. The S3 missile has a damage potential roughly equivalent to a single medium turbolaser blast. Arguably the most conventional (and versatile class), the FAE/WH-04-S4 is the next largest size. This class mirrors the S3’s capabilities, albeit with more firepower and a longer range. The S4 missile has a damage potential that is roughly equivalent to a single heavy turbolaser blast. Finally, the FAE/WH-04-S5 is the largest intermediate class. The S5 class scales with light capital-grade missiles, but can also be carried by large vehicle and small craft platforms. In this regard, the S5 is suitable to engage some smaller capital ships, such as corvettes and frigates.

Finally, the two largest classes are the FAE/WH-04-S6 and the S7, both of which are too large to be used in craft or vehicles smaller than 50 meters at the largest dimension. The former size fits into typical capital-grade assault missiles (scaling to assault concussion missiles in size). Accordingly, the S6 is optimized for full-scale anti-capital ship duty. The S7 ramps this up even further, being classified as a super-heavy warhead. Accordingly, the S7 class manifests battlecruiser and even dreadnought-level firepower, capable of engaging and potentially, destroying these ship classes.

Ultimately, the FAE/WH-04 is hoped to represent the apex of First United Astral Engineering’s missile program, providing a missile system that can encompass virtually all types of craft and host platforms.
 

Out Of Character Info

Intent: To create a line of missiles for First United Astral Engineering.
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Technical Information

Affiliation: First United Astral Engineering
Model: FAE/WH-04 Universal Missile Platform
Modular: Yes
Material: See Body
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