Eternal Father
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION- Intent: Create a potent bioweapon for TSE
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- Manufacturer: Sith-Imperial Corps of Engineers
- Affiliation: Sith-Imperial Military Department of Advanced Weapons Research
- Model: Satal-type Air-to-Surface Missile
- Modularity: No
- Production: Limited
- Material:
Durasteel Bomblet Casing & Missile Plating - Aluminum Bomblet Interior Coating
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
- Classification: Biological Cluster Munition
- Size: Large
- Weight: Very Heavy
- Ammunition Type: Chlorine Trifluoride Filled Submunition Bomblets
- Ammunition Capacity: 208 ClF3 Submunition Bomblets
- Reload Speed: Average
- Effective Range: Very High
- Rate of Fire: Very Slow
- Stopping Power: Extreme
- Recoil: Extreme
- When launched from a warship, a Satal-type missile will travel along a pre-calculated trajectory until it reaches about one kilometer above the target. Once at that range, a central explosive burster charge inside the warhead detonates and dispersed all two-hundred-and-eight bomblets over a wide area.
- As these bomblets are propelled through the air, electronic locks inside the metal mechanism are disengaged; allowing the pressurized liquid inside to be spread freely.
- When ClF3 comes into contact with virtually any element, it evaporates into a toxic gas. When it ignites, it will burn at over 2,400 degrees Celsius. A highly combustible oxidant, ClF3 can set fire to inflammable materials including sand, glass, or even asbestos. Even compounds which have already been burnt can be reignited, like a pile of ash.
- Upon contact with water, ClF3 reacts explosively. Once in contact with human skin, the mixture quickly ignites. Pouring water on it only provides more fuel for it to burn. Once ignited, it is nearly impossible to extinguish. The corrosive gasses which are created are easily carried by the wind. Any metals that come into contact with it become severely rusted.
- Highly Corrosive: ClF3 is a colorless, poisonous, and corrosive gas which reacts violently with most any element; but none so more than water. When it combusts it burns unrelentless and cannot be extinguished by water or sand, allowing the destructive flames to spread out of control along the affected area. Most metal in its proximity corrodes and rusts rapidly due to its high oxidation.
- Indiscriminate: When this type of missile is used, it is done so with the knowledge that any damage inflicted upon the enemy can be easily inflicted upon yourself as well. The gaseous element integral to the missile's destructiveness has no regard for any one side and is as fickle as the changing wind.
Perpetually tenacious in pursuing greater and more devastating forms of weaponry, the Sith Emperor has demanded the creation of multiple biological weapons to use against the Jedi and their heretical ilk. One such weapon was the Satal-type Biological Air-to-Surface Missile, which utilized the highly corrosive and destructive element chlorine trifluoride as its primary method of annihilation. Designed as a cluster munition, the missile would be fired from a vessel in either the upper atmosphere of a planet or the vacuum of space.
Once the warhead had reached one kilometer above the designated target, it would detonate and release over two hundred bomblets that would then disperse the poisonous gas in its liquid form. When the liquid came into contact with the oxygen in the atmosphere, it was undergo a chemical transformation into a colorless gas that would then be carried down by the wind to affect a wide area beneath the detonation vector.
This gas was incredible destructive, reacting explosively with nearly every element; especially water. The fires produced by this combustion were practically impossible to extinguish with water of sand, as it reacts violently with the former and would continue to burn and eventually consume the latter. Metal in the vicinity of the gas would oxidize and rust rapidly, leading to the loss of structural integrity in most structures built of common materials.
The missile that this gas was transported on was small enough to be mounted on Ajunta-class StarFortresses, but was more commonly carried on Malak-class Planetary Assault Cruisers.
