Interdiction - Class Advanced Subspatial Starship
Advanced, cruiser sized Subspatial Starship of the HEX Mainframe.
This Subspatial Starship is capable of firing projectiles which mess with nearby ships FTL drives, making it far more difficult to warp out.
Starships like these can obtain a huge attrition easily by preventing retreat.
It is unarmed by itself, though, and it can be detected by other factions. Weakly armoured, the Interdiction is not designed to surface or take any fire. This can be a problem if it reveals itself by blocking enemy hyperspace (they might be inclined to prioritise the Interdiction class to retreat) so the HM sometimes also tries radar jamming while deploying them. Other factions often see the Interdiction as a priority target. Due to this the HM must use them carefully.It interferes with the local gravitational field, which complicates FTL calculations, and the quantum foam is reduced which makes it more difficult to extract negative mass. Like most HM starships, the Interdiction class carried a large fusion reactor for power, but the HM used their very expensive, cutting edge technology to make these reactions extremely efficient and fuse very light elements from hydrogen all the way to iron. After iron, fusion reactions become energy negative. This iron is used as material to repair the ship, or is expelled as waste and dissipates heat. This iron is heated to immense temperatures which takes a massive amount of heat from other systems which could be damaged by it. This gives the ship a relatively high IR signature, however.
This Subspatial Starship is capable of firing projectiles which mess with nearby ships FTL drives, making it far more difficult to warp out.
Starships like these can obtain a huge attrition easily by preventing retreat.
It is unarmed by itself, though, and it can be detected by other factions. Weakly armoured, the Interdiction is not designed to surface or take any fire. This can be a problem if it reveals itself by blocking enemy hyperspace (they might be inclined to prioritise the Interdiction class to retreat) so the HM sometimes also tries radar jamming while deploying them. Other factions often see the Interdiction as a priority target. Due to this the HM must use them carefully.It interferes with the local gravitational field, which complicates FTL calculations, and the quantum foam is reduced which makes it more difficult to extract negative mass. Like most HM starships, the Interdiction class carried a large fusion reactor for power, but the HM used their very expensive, cutting edge technology to make these reactions extremely efficient and fuse very light elements from hydrogen all the way to iron. After iron, fusion reactions become energy negative. This iron is used as material to repair the ship, or is expelled as waste and dissipates heat. This iron is heated to immense temperatures which takes a massive amount of heat from other systems which could be damaged by it. This gives the ship a relatively high IR signature, however.
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