Posted by: MarcAFK
« on: December 10, 2016, 12:33:07 AM »I'm more inclined to believe they self destruct at end of range to prevent falling into enemy hands, or leaving dangerous unexploded ordnance in potentially future friendly space.
I thought aurora ships (and missiles) would just stop moving when they ran out of fuel instead of following the newtonian laws of physics? That's why we call it Trans-Newtonian, no?I think you're right as well. But I guess they'd still move under gravity at least? So not exactly fast-moving in Auroran terms, but still with an unpleasant chance of being caught up in a planetary gravity well.
In Aurora ( and space warfare in general ) context its not reverse engineering per se but more that once fuel runs out, you have virtually undetectable fast moving live warhead that will slam into something eventually.
Indeed. If your enemy could get their hands on an unexploded missile it would be worth alot to them, and allow them to figure out exactly how to defeat it. This would be even more of a risk in space then here on Earth where the missile would probably crash quite violently and be in a pretty bad shape even if it didn't properly explode.
Indeed. If your enemy could get their hands on an unexploded missile it would be worth alot to them, and allow them to figure out exactly how to defeat it. This would be even more of a risk in space then here on Earth where the missile would probably crash quite violently and be in a pretty bad shape even if it didn't properly explode.
Effectively, all missiles after being fired that dont find a target, auto self destruct. (Something real missiles do mind you)