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Solaris Nuclear Torpedo

Greetings fellow nerds!

It's been a long while since I uploaded any of my designs for this game. In fact I think its been quite a few years. I'm also a lot less long winded when it comes to explaining things so this one will be much shorter. But I'm also a little drunk as I upload this and autocorrect is working overtime so this wound up being way too long.

This is the Solaris Nuclear Torpedo, and I think you can figure out why I call it a torpedo and not a missile. It is a large single-stage, methane NTR missile carrying a 10.1 Megaton warhead. It features higher Delta-V than any of the stock missiles (4.14km/s) and far greater acceleration (22.9g at launch, rising to 44.7g at engine cutoff.) Most of the parts are custom, specifically the warhead (just a stock 2.03Mt warhead tweaked with a major fusion boost if I remember correctly) and engine (the engine is also what I use on my custom heavy drones.)

This was designed because I got irritated with how useless the stock missiles were, being only useful in large waves against ships without decoys/lasers or heavily crippled ships. With a single Solaris, you can knock out entire waves of drones and missiles, and do serious damage to an enemy ship.

This torpedo can fit on smaller ships, albeit in small numbers. I fit about 8 of them plus the launcher on small corvettes (yea I'm really going for that Rocinante vibe.) It is seriously heavy and large so carrying many of them requires a large ship.
The major downside is cost. Can't get around how expensive a 10.1 megaton warhead is no matter how many times I try to tweak it. Another issue is armor. Given its Delta-V and acceleration, it can carry a decent amount of armor but I kind of just threw some Reinforced Carbon-Carbon down, layered some graphite on top, and topped it off with some aerogel and called it a day.

Anyways thats finally it, expect some more from me soon I've been experimenting with my "Boxer" series of low power "sand blaster snipers" and it lead to the "Lancer" series, the biggest of which fires at more than 20km/s so maybe some of y'all would like to use it.