Xenos

[pipsqueak]

hmm... I agree, to a certain extent.
But what about a speed of 0. And stays around for 1 minute.
A terror weapon with no potential target. Like terrorists now a days do. They bomb places. The reason, to disrupt the unwanted factions so they eventually leave.
Terrorists drop it at the end of trade lanes to disrupt traders. A bomb.
Which sits there till some one runs into it. Frankly, Xenos need something to terrorize with. I understand it is tough to make a ship but a detonation device ? Also if they have splash damage (big) then xenos will take care not to deploy it too close to their opponent's ship or else we have a suicide Bomber.

Remember a mine with a speed of 0 is an IED that terrorists today use. Though they have no uber weapons (And thank god for that).I idea would be for the Xenos to drop these mines and leave the area. and let the next unfortunate perrson that comes by, get it...
Remember a mine like this will not even kill a starflyer with its shields up (as you would need two to take the shields and hull down) and the only way you would get hit is if you run into it...
This will help against Cap ships though, but that in return will restrict the use of cap ships away from trade lanes as the Xenos threat becomes slightly more prominent.

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