Irys Arist'lar
Character
Intent: Create some long range ordnance
Development Thread: No
Manufacturer: Hoersch Kessel Driveworks
Model: HKD BVR TR-HY
Affiliation: Private Market
Modularity: Warhead can be converted to change to other HKD BVR Torpedoes easily
Production: Minor
Material: Durasteel, warhead materials.
Classification: Long range guided ordnance
Size: Assault concussion missile size
Length: 5m
Weight: 2000kg
Ammunition Type: Torpedo
Ammunition Capacity: N/A
Effective Range: Extreme capital ship. Potentially as far as two close planets within a system. (Note: Minimum range of 10km)
Rate of Fire: Slow
Special Features: Extreme range, guided.
Strengths:
- Very Long Range
- Hits at high velocity and so difficult for Starfighters to intercept
- Guided. Can hit moving targets and curve in to throw off tracking and strike specific targets of large capital ships
- Low yield. Room taken up by fuel and engines means they hit with far less power than a regular Assault Concussion Missile
- Minimum range: Can’t be used within 10km. Cannot effectively launch and potential of being detonated close to ship by enemy point defences.
- Can’t strike small targets. No use against anything smaller than a frigate. Comes in at too high a velocity and not enough of a turning circle to compensate.
Description: The HKD range of BVR torpedoes is an attempt to provide some alternative options to energy torpedoes and hyper-velocity rounds. HV rounds are generally unsuitable for a morally conscious force attempting to strike ships in orbit of a planet due to the chance of massive civilian casualties on the planet below. These missiles can easily be programmed to become inert if they malfunction or miss their intended target.
Three types of missiles have been created, imaginative named the HY, DR and ID for high-yield, disruptor and interdictor respectively.
Obviously the torpedoes lack the pure destruction potential of an assault concussion missile at close range. The high yield variety packs a similar punch to a missile fired from a Starfighter as much of the weight is fuel to accelerate to extreme velocities. These are intended to whittle down shields and to strike precise targets on capital ships at long range, rather than to cause devastation.
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