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arieg203 [Sn90VN 'Starfish-1' Advanced Heavyweight Anti-Ship Torpedo (A-HAST)]
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 ====== Sn90VN 'Starfish-1' Advanced Heavyweight Anti-Ship Torpedo (A-HAST) ======
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 The primary dedicated heavy anti-ship and anti-installation munition of the Colonial Pact, the Starfish-1 Advanced Heavyweight Anti-Ship Torpedo is a mixed guidance fire and forget capable munition primarily used on combat vessels. Designed as a very long range anti-ship and anti-installation weapon, the Starfish-1 is a massive construct roughly the size of an ICBM. Slower then missiles of comparable range, it trades speed for a much larger warhead capability packaged in a very tough and capable delivery system. Combing a vehicle grade shield system, heavy armor, and a well rounded electronic warfare system for confusing attempts at intercepting it. Guiding the monstrosity is a fighter grade radar system with a range of passive sensors to increase its overall capabilities. However due to its size as well as its cost it is typically restricted to shipboard use as well as installation defensive mounts, typically in three shot rotary fed torpedo tubes.
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-  ***Propulsion**\\ The missile employs a single cylindrical [[colonial_pact:technologies:listm|LISTM type]] solid fuel fusion drive system with plasma bleed ducting to provide steerage in thin or non-existent atmospheric conditions. When active it is also the primary power source for the missiles systems.
+  ***Propulsion**\\ The torpedo employs a single very large [[colonial_pact:technologies:listm|LISTM type]] solid fuel fusion drive system with steerage being provided by a electromagnetic/mechanical means of ducting the fusion drive's exhaust as well as small plasma bleed ducts placed strategically along the torpedo body to provide more precise maneuvering capability.
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-  ***Powerplant**\\ The missile's primary power source when under storage conditions is a set of [[colonial_pact:technologies:colonial_pact_common_callenite_energy_capacitor_ccec|CCEC type]] capacitors linked to a small 'beer' can sized [[colonial_pact:technologies:colonial_pact_common_fission_thermal_battery_cftb|CFTB Type]] fission system, effectively giving the MRSAAM a decades long shelf life when stored under proper conditions. These systems are intended to have enough energy to ignite the drive motor when the missile is fired and are usually a secondary source of power once the motor is supplying the needed energy while in flight.
+  ***Powerplant**\\ The torpedo's is 'cold' stored, meaning when not in use or under testing there is no power going through its systems and it will typically be linked to an umbilical to provide it as such. When in operation four [[colonial_pact:technologies:colonial_pact_common_solid_fuel_fusion_cell_csffc|NbM-95 Solid Fusion Cells]], each being a five meter long rod assembly, provide primary operational power as well as the initial boost that is need to ignite the torpedo's drive. In the event of low power needs or a cold approach the torpedo employs a set of [[colonial_pact:technologies:colonial_pact_common_callenite_energy_capacitor_ccec|conformal capacitor packs]] which will store enough energy to restart the various power systems. These are typically quick charged on launch.
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-==== Storage State and Use ====
-The missile once manufactured is typically stored in a polymer casing until use, generally rectangular and designed to stack with munitions of its type. When opened the missile is revealed which is typically the main hull with the eight fins detached to reduce the missiles overall size in storage. These are attached before the missile is loaded and can be configured into either a folded setup for launch tubes or left hanging free for standard hardpoint use. The primary linkage is covered by a throw away panel and must be uncovered and hard linked into the launch vehicle during installation.
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 ==== Warhead ====
 **(40.38 Gigatons Nominal Yield for direct KKV Impact - Vacuum Velocity Only)**\\
-The Asper employs a kinetic kill methodology with three primary impact options depending on both the launching vehicles setting parameters as well as the missiles own adaptive programming. The first and primary method is the simple 'skin skin' kinetic kill in which the missile directly impacts the target using its own mass and speed to destroy it. Typically fantastic in result in both the size of the vapor cloud and the resulting fragmentation it is often used against larger targets. The second and third method are fragmentation based with one employing a forward oriented conical pattern and the other simply reducing the entire missile body into a cloud of fragments. While lower in mass and resulting damage it dramatically increases the hit chance against small and or fast moving targets.
+Like most Pact weapons the principle and primary mechanism of destruction for the A-HAST system is simple mass times velocity, effectively simply smashing into the target at relativistic speeds often to catastrophic effect especially on targets without shielding at the time of impact. However the launching platform and the torpedo itself have two other options, the first being a 'burst' fragmentation method in which charges inside the torpedo body explode and shatter it into thousands of lethal fragments. This can be used to suppress enemy formations or target a vast surface area of a world or habitat. Finally just behind the torpedo's sensor package is a high yield callenite boosted fusion device with a RAAD or Rapid Antimatter Accelerator Device to produce the initiating AM agent for the binary warhead. This device is 'dial a yield' and capable of producing a yield of 455 Kt at the low end up to 2.5 Gigatons at the other end. While lower in destructive capability when compared to direct impact it none the less covers a larger area with its blast as well as the associated sensor blinding effects of a antimatter fusion reaction.

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