Let us work on drones and their weapons before we commit to their carriers.
Glorrigal Battleform
Even the smallest of insects have their Purpose.
--Unknown
The Glorrigal is a small creature, essentially an attempt at creating a drone with maneuvering, a weapon it can use to hit targetted enemies of Liir, and a set of explosives for its final glory, it uses almost all of our currently developed designs and technologies into its prototypical stage.
Roughly small enough that it can be carried anywhere it needs to be. the Glorrigal Battleform has a "slot", where a weapon can be installed. It moves through a series of bladders, which empty out into an ignition chamber that is directly created from species of Sublight Drive organs. it's a centralized form of power is essentially an RTG surrounded by transplutonic metals to convert the deadly radiation directly into heat (taking the form of small, round beads of surprisingly cuddly warmth!) Biological processes create the ions and acids required to sustain explosive sacks of dense, electrically started stable explosive, essentially triggered only when the craft is ordered to crash into something and suicide detonate. Its skin consists of the Chitinous plating
However, all of these things have been miniaturized, integrated into one cohesive organism that they are no longer a bunch of parts welded or grown together, but one living creature that can be grown and mass fabricated in mass.
Strange Matter weaponization "Star-Dust"
“We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.”
--Mother Teresa
The first example of actual ship-mounted weaponry is intended to be mounted upon our drones with little thought for anything larger. Simply, it consists of several organelles that each holds cryogenically cooled chemicals and initiate processes of electromagnetic stabilization. All of these impossible-for-organic feats are accomplished for the sole purpose of keeping the very centerpiece of this weapon stable
A very small glob of synthetically produced "Strange Matter", that is, matter that has degenerated into quarks, is kept stable, mostly due to the massive infrastructure set up behind it to produce isolated "cells" that store these packets of degenerate matter in a method that can be merely kept stable with electromagnets and cryogenic cooling.
Once the trigger is released on the weapon, a glob of the matter-- no larger than a fingernail-- is pushed into a packet of biological matter that acts as a heat shield and to prevent premature detonation. This packet is pushed out of the barrel of the weapon by a chemical combustion process improved a thousand times over from primitive gunpowder and sent barreling towards an enemy object. Once the projectile collides with a target, runs out of propellant and "dies", or is interrupted by the EM signature of a engines wake, it destabilizes the Strange Matter and the cells which contain the cell matter die.
The Strange matter briefly degenerates the surrounding matter around it, causing a runaway reaction that expands outwards, and visually looks like a golden light, sparkling as it consumes more to create more of itself for a brief 4/6ths of a second.
Then, it collapses on itself, and the resulting energy burst closely mirrors that of a thermonuclear detonation, but with higher yield.
The weapon itself consists of all the support infrastructure in a self-contained package, the packet storage of strange matter, the launch barrels, and a supply of the munitions to keep the packets safe before detonation.
Design Document
5 Dice in Glorrigal battleform, 4 in Star-Dust, 1 for Revision (1) :Blood_librarian
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