Military Technology

- EMD Field: Electromagnetic Disruption Field, an area-effect weapon that disrupts electromagnetic currents, distorting radio communication in a radius up to several miles. Since it became the standard tool of warfare, it made remote controlled drones virtually obsolete.

Energy Weapons

Energy weapons have the advantage that their "projectile" moves at light speed.

- Laser Weapon: larger range, but lower damage.

- Particle Weapon: higher damage, but lower range.

Kinetic Weapons

Kinetic Weapons launch physical projectiles, relying on electromagnetic projectile accelerators (empas) to set them in motion. The main difference between them is the ammunition they use. While empa projectiles travel several thousand meters per second, they are still very slow compared to the dimensions of space. Therefore they either need to be guided (like missiles and torpedos), or used against targets standing still or moving on a stable vector.

- Gauss Weapons: Mostly negliged in space warfare, but the most widespread weapon type in surface combat.

- Solid Shells: non-propelled, non-guided and non-explosive rounds, relying on the force of the impact to do damage.

- Explosive shells: non-propelled, non-guided, explosive rounds. They do less damage on impact and not even designed for that - instead they are set to explode at a given range, damaging everything around them. Some of them carry nuclear warheads.

- Missile Weapon: rocket-propelled, self-guided, explosive projectiles. Beside energy weapons, missiles are the most widespread weapons in space warfare.

- Space Torpedo: a special type of missile used in space warfare that doesn't ignite on launch, gliding close to it's target stealthily before activating it's engines and starting to track it. Space Torpedoes have much larger payloads than regular missiles, sometimes even nuclear warheads.

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