Mobile Anti-Warhead Platform |
| One of the biggest threats to ships in combat is warheads. Large numbers of them can knock out or even destroy capital ships. Different methods have been employed to counter this threat with varying degrees of success. By far the most common is to either get starfighter support to shoot down the warheads or to intercept the warheads with missiles. Neither option is very reliable. The starfighter support requires that they aren�t otherwise engaged with enemy fighters and that the pilot is a good shot. Launching counter-missiles not only eats up ammo, but they can also be shot down by enemy fighters or even miss the target altogether. Because every ship under Oremin�s control is a precious commodity, alternate methods are being explored to counter the �warhead rush�. Kasr does not want a gunship that simply carries an excess supply of missiles or some kind of super-smart counter missile that would be capable of knocking out large groups of incoming warheads. He wants something that doesn�t rely on finite resources. So far nothing viable has been offered up, but Kasr feels that it is only a matter of time before his think-tank comes through� |