Gravity Warhead Technology / Science in Long War | World Anvil

Gravity Warhead

Devastating type of warhead that is available only for a limited amount of Outer Colonies countries that achieved sufficiently advanced level of technology. It is quite literally a weaponized artificial black hole... which pretty much describes just how dangerous this weapon is.   It is a two-stage missile (which limits it to LSK and SK size missiles). It is launched as normal missile. When it gets close to enemy, the warhead is activated and the microsingularity is created in front of the missile, used to both propel itself (in a way similar to Gravity Engine) and shield the warhead itself from enemy defences.   Gravity Warheads are extremely unstable. More often than not, the missile itself gets devoured by the singularity and the entire construction collapses (as there is nothing to keep the in micro black hole in existence). However it is also a weapon capable of one-shoting a capital ship, meaning that it has to be given absolute priority by the AV Defense.   This means, that other missiles have an easier time reaching their targets when there are Gravity Missiles in the salvo. This has a weird side effect of very little of these rockets actually reaching the target.

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