Weapon ideas

[Ironwatsas]

Couple of ideas I had considered previously. Don't know if they're scriptable or practical.

Magnetic Harpoon: Basically, a big tractor beam which can slow down or move objects like ships, loot, gibs, etc around. It wouldn't be able to overcome a ship's engines however unless they engine killed.

Fort Shield: A large shield dome which protected the ship it was mounted on, and any ships inside it's radius. Other ships would have to enter the shield or overload it from outside to be able to get at the generator. The idea would be that it would be built onto dedicated ships (Specially designed mobile shield vessels) and not mountable on others.

Gravity Well: Would basically project a field which would stop cruise or engine kill. Acting like a globular CD generated from a single vessel. It would probably also be fitted onto it's own dedicated hull and be a tactical support asset.

Interceptor Missile: Pretty much a small, high speed, high damage missile for capital ships to use against attacking strike craft. However, it'd have very low refire (akin to a supernova), high energy drain, and need ammo.

Nuclear MIRV: Like nathrael suggested. A multiple warhead missile used either by bombers against caps, or as an anti cap weapon. Would be too slow to affect fighters but would be devastating against smaller or medium sized warships.

Repulsor Field: Creates a sphere of energy which pushes away ships and objects around it. Can be used offensively (e.g. pushing ship into planet) or defensively (pushing away explosives or ruining an enemy's firing solution)

Rift Generator: Not to sure about this one. It'd work like the /stuck command and randomly teleport a ship in a random direction a short distance. Would only be mountable on certian high tech ships, require ammo, and automatically reduce weapon energy (and possibly shields) to zero.

Self Destruct: As the name suggests. A ship with it's torpedo slots replaced with a self-destruct device which does assenine amounts of damage to the surrounding area, but also kills the ship using it.

Few ideas there.

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