Pulse missiles were a type of heat-seeking missile used by the Space Corps Enforcement Orb. Using pulse missiles, the Enforcement Orb almost destroyed Starbug, carrying out a death sentence since it had found them guilty of looting derelict Space Corps spacecraft, the Deep Space equivalent of horse rustlers in the Old West. The pulse missiles caused hull damage to the 'bug, destroying the Oxy-Generation Unit, fuel leakage, and set the 'bug ablaze. Numerous flares and decoys were launched to throw off the missiles, but the Enforcement Orb kept coming.