Thread:Ecoraptor3339/@comment-25309944-20150423155458/@comment-4960835-20150922203817

I believe it is time for the Mirusians to get hyperspace weaponry then? Given that France can now effectively do whatever they want while the SMC and the IoW are anhillating each other via traditional means.

Waptoria preferring long-range combat will most likely focus on riftfire weaponry, taking notes from the Lafayette (if that is possible). I can imagine them morhing an enirely new Titan class for that reason (think of smoother, organic version of the Kultorask Titan of Sins of a Solar Empire for visual looks). Almost like a ship-sized artillery cannon, armed with extremly long-range hypermatter beams, removed faaar away from the actual battle lines but possessing no defense for close-range engagement, so that's it's weakness.

The Imperium will go an entirely new route, based off a concept of the Great Hyperspace War. That being that dropping an hyperspace star into realspace would have disastrous results because there can be more energy packed together in hyperspace than in realspace. As a result, once in realspace, the energy would quickly attempt to disfuse itself as fast as possible, resulting in an cataclysmic explosion. My thinking with this was that the IoW would develop an hyperspace missile shaped to absorb hypermatter as it travells trough hyperspace. Once in realspace, the energy would violently diffuse itself, resulting in an explosion that could possibly wipe out entire squadrons of ships. Now of course this "Hypernova"-type missile would be more inaccurate and harder to make than the regular hyperspace missiles as a drawback, but the IoW would hardly concider that an issure given it's far greater explosive power.