...I just recently aquired advanced particle torpedo warhead 3..... not sure what that's for but it sounds effective.
It's the advanced version of the Particle Beam technology and one of the 'special' techs you can only get from salvaging ruins - it's one of the same techs I received
I'm currently researching it up along with the particle beam range techs in an attempt to build horrific Shrike-equivalent gunships with a huge spinal ion cannon to nastily murder my
valued allies enemies. Once you have this, don't bother researching up the base 'particle beam strength' technolgies, just research this one instead - as far as I can tell, it boosts each HS/Power level up one damage step compared to the base one.
1) based around vanilla 'Particle Beam 3':
Beam Strength 3 Rate of Fire: 10 seconds Maximum Range: 100,000 km
Launcher Size: 6 HS Launcher HTK: 3
Power Requirement: 7 Power Recharge per 5 Secs: 6
Cost: 50 Crew: 60
Materials Required: 10x Duranium 10x Boronide 30x Corundium
2) based around the advanced particle beam 3 (smaller and less power needed):
Beam Strength 3 Rate of Fire: 5 seconds Maximum Range: 100,000 km
Launcher Size: 5 HS Launcher HTK: 2
Power Requirement: 5 Power Recharge per 5 Secs: 6
Cost: 42 Crew: 50
Materials Required: 8.4x Duranium 8.4x Boronide 25.2x Corundium
3) based around advanced particle beam 4 (same power and size as normal 3)
Beam Strength 4 Rate of Fire: 10 seconds Maximum Range: 100,000 km
Launcher Size: 6 HS Launcher HTK: 3
Power Requirement: 7 Power Recharge per 5 Secs: 6
Cost: 50 Crew: 60
Materials Required: 10x Duranium 10x Boronide 30x Corundium
(Yes, it has the wrong name - particle beams used to be called Particle Torpedos until they got renamed, probably to avoid confusion with Plasma Torpedos. I guess this one got missed