Missiles

Missiles are the secondary weapons available on all type of ships. There are two types of missiles, homing and unguided. Homing missiles require the player to lock onto the target in order to fire (They can also be fired without locking-on and then follow the same rules as unguided) and can be avoided by using flares or dodging/weaving in and out of objects. Homing missiles are useful for longer ranges when Guns can't reach. Unguided require no lock-on and aren't affected by flares but are easily dodged at long range, but are useful for close-quarters.

Missiles are loaded in Cartridges. When you expend all of the missiles in your cartridge, it will begin reloading, which is a lengthy process.

Missiles are separated by ship class, with interceptors only able to mount small missiles, fighters medium and frigates large. In addition, there are special missile types that can only be used by certain roles.

Interceptor Missiles

Interceptors support small missiles, some guided and some unguided, and small mines.

Name	Description	Tiers	Role	Mk III Faction
Small Missile	Short range guided thermal missile	1+	Any
Piercing Missile	Unguided kinetic rocket	2+	Any
Plasma Missile	Unguided EM rocket	2+	Any
Proximity Mine	Static thermal mine that detonates when an enemy comes near	2+	Recon
Inhibitor Unguided Missile	Unguided rocket that slows the target down for several seconds and deals EM damage	3+	Recon
Energy neutralizing missile	Missile that detonates for EM damage, and leaves a 1000m radius energy draining field.	3+	ECM
Tactical Nuke	Nuclear warhead that is dropped, then charges for 20 seconds before detonating for massive thermal damage	3+	Covert Ops

Fighter Missiles

Fighters support medium-sized racks of missiles.

Name	Description	Tiers	Role	Mk III Faction
Standard Missile	Medium range guided thermal missile.	1+	Any
Armor-Piercing Missile	Medium range guided kinetic missile.	2+	Any
EM Missile	Medium range guided EM missile.	2+	Any
Slowing Missile	Guided missile that does EM damage and leaves a 1000m slowing field	2+	Tackler
Ion-Warhead Missile	Guided missile that does EM damage and disables the target's weapons and modules for a few seconds	3+	Command
Firestorm	Fires 5 unguided missiles in a burst	3+	Gunship

Frigate Missiles

Frigates support large missiles and various other devices.

Name	Description	Tiers	Role	Mk III Faction
Cruise Missile	Long range guided thermal missile.	1+	Any
Torpedo	Unguided high damage EM rocket.	2+	Any
Octopus	Fire 5 guided kinetic missiles in a burst	3+	Any
Minelayer	Lays a large minefield that detonates up to 4 times for high thermal damage	2+	Long Range
Attack Drone	Launches an automated attack drone that seeks out and attacks your current target	2+	Engineering
Anomaly Generator	Focus on a target for several seconds to generate an anomaly. If successful the anomaly explodes for massive damage.	3+	Guard

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