The NOVA Nuclear Missile is a ship-mounted thermonuclear missile, outfitted with a varying payload, a thermonuclear warhead capable of being set to anywhere from a twenty to one hundred Megaton yields depending on its usage. Used by Remsian Republic Capital ships, it can also be fitted on X-3 Daggers and X-4 Phoenixs for a low-profile insertion. They can also be fitted with guidance computers for increased accuracy. Upon detonation, the NOVA Nuclear Warhead releases a massive EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse), effectively disabling electronics aboard nearby ships.
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| - The NOVA Nuclear Missile is a ship-mounted thermonuclear missile, outfitted with a varying payload, a thermonuclear warhead capable of being set to anywhere from a twenty to one hundred Megaton yields depending on its usage. Used by Remsian Republic Capital ships, it can also be fitted on X-3 Daggers and X-4 Phoenixs for a low-profile insertion. They can also be fitted with guidance computers for increased accuracy. Upon detonation, the NOVA Nuclear Warhead releases a massive EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse), effectively disabling electronics aboard nearby ships.
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| - *Missile Travel Distance: 100,000-500,000km
*Detonation Effect:
**Atmospheric: 150km
**Vacuum: 500km
*EMP:
**Atmospheric: 500km
**Vacuum: 25,000km
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| - The NOVA Nuclear Missile is a ship-mounted thermonuclear missile, outfitted with a varying payload, a thermonuclear warhead capable of being set to anywhere from a twenty to one hundred Megaton yields depending on its usage. Used by Remsian Republic Capital ships, it can also be fitted on X-3 Daggers and X-4 Phoenixs for a low-profile insertion. They can also be fitted with guidance computers for increased accuracy. Upon detonation, the NOVA Nuclear Warhead releases a massive EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse), effectively disabling electronics aboard nearby ships. Due to the abundance of Fissile and Fusion materials available in Remsian space, these missiles were used heavily on capital ships in the place of proton torpedoes. While not as effective directly as a proton torpedoes the EMP and expanded explosive sphere of a NOVA missile made it equally as damaging. Due to the nature of shield technology, if a missile detonated inside a shield bubble the blast would be compressed and amplified inside the shield as long as it lasted, increasing the possibility of a more powerful blast wave once the shield collapsed. It should be noted that standard capital ship shields could take a nuclear blast at range, but at point blank range high yield detonations were very likely to overload the shield emitters.
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