Omega Mods for Knight Hawks 2000

SYSTEMS

Subspace radios are called warpdrive transceivers.

Subspace radars are called warpdrive lidar systems or, simply lidar.

WEAPONS

Listed below are the common starship weapons of the 22d century.

160 TJ Laser Cannon(HLC): These weapons are the ship-mounted versions of planetary laser cannon. They have a range of 1,800,000 kilometers(30,000,000 hexes), fire once per turn and inflict 4,000 points maximum structural damage(400D10 structural points damage).

40 TJ Laser Cannon(MLC): These smaller cannon are the most common weapons for scoutcraft, with a range of 1,800,000 kilometers(30,000,000 hexes), firing once per turn, and inflicting 800 points(80D10)of maximum structural damage.

5TJ Laser Cannon(LLC): These cannon are common warpfighter and vehicle-mounted weapons. They have a range of 1,800,000 kilometers(30,000,000 hexes), firing twice per turn, inflicting 400 points(40D10)of maximum structural damage per pulse which hits.

Each pulse is a separate to-hit roll.

500GJ Autolaser(AL): Called heavy lasers by AD/Zeb's, these are common secondary warpfighter and vehicle-mounted weapons. In space, they have a range of 1,800,000 kilometers(30,000,000 hexes), firing fifteen times per turn, inflicting 200 points(20D10)of maximum structural damage per pulse which hits.

Each pulse is a separate to-hit roll.

Medium Laser Battery(MLB): This is a turreted medium laser cannon; the turreted mounting allows it to fire into any arc.

Light Laser Battery(LLB): This is a turreted quad mount of light laser cannon; the turreted mounting allows it to fire into any arc.

Heavy Electron/Proton Cannon(HEC/HPC): A heavy weapon which fires either a beam of protons or a beam of electrons at a target. It has a range of 1,800,000 kilometers(30,000,000 hexes), firing once per turn and inflicting 3,000 points(30D10) of maximum structural damage.

Electron/Proton Cannon(EC/PC): A lighter proton weapon which is mounted aboard fightercraft. It has a range of 1,800,000 kilometers(30,000,000 hexes), firing once per turn, inflicting 200 points(20D10) of maximum structural damage.

Electron/Proton Battery(EB/PB): A turreted proton/electron cannon, able to fire once per turn into any arc.

Massdriver Cannon(MDC): A projectile weapon using a powerful magnetic field to propel solid metallic slugs into space at relativistic velocities(about 20 % of the speed of light). It has a range of 360,000 kilometers(6,000,000 hexes), firing twice per turn and inflicting 600 points(60D10)of maximum structural damage.

Heavy Massdriver Battery(HMDB): A turreted pair of medium-sized massdriver cannon, the heavy massdriver battery can fire into any arc, has a range of 360,000 kilometers(6,000,000 hexes), firing four times per turn and inflicting 400 points(40D10) of maximum structural damage.

Massdriver Battery(MDB): A turreted set of four small massdriver cannon, the massdriver battery can fire into any arc, has a range of 360,000 kilometers(6,000,000 hexes), firing eight times per turn and inflicting 200 points(20D10) of maximum structural damage.

Seeker Missiles(SM): Small guided missiles with a Level 3 robot brain, passive and active sensors, a plasma engine, and a one-kiloton antimatter warhead. These are dropped from hardpoints or internal bays, the onboard robot brain using its Missile Guidance(Level 3) program to seek out enemy targets and its Level 3 Vehicular Combat(Starship) program to evade interceptors(q.v.) .

A seeker missile has an ADF and MR of 30, and its plasma engine has enough fuel for ten turns' of acceleration, after which it automatically detonates.

Alternatively, a seeker can be dropped off and programmed to keep station, waiting until an enemy crosses its path, at which point it accelerates towards it.

A seeker missile does 460 points(46D10)of maximum structural damage, and a ship can launch a number of seekers equal to the amount of missiles on board per turn.

Missile Battery(MB): A missile battery is a four-tubed launcher firing smaller seeking micromissiles(see below) which otherwise act as seeker missiles. It fires at a rate of four salvos per turn, each missile having enough fuel to accelerate at ADF 30 for six turns before detonating.

Each salvo does 400 points(40D10) of maximum structural damage.

Torpedos(TT): A torpedo is twice as large as a regular seeker missile, with a Level 6 robot brain guiding its actions(with Missile Guidance and Vehicular Combat(Starship) programs at Level 6) and a one-megaton antimatter warhead doing 1000 points(100D10) of maximum structural damage. Its plasma engine has enough fuel to accelerate at ADF 30 for twenty turns before automatically detonating.

It otherwise acts like a seeker missile.

Micromissiles(MM): These are the missiles from the missile battery, carried externally and used by fighters and bombers for air-to-air(or space-to-space)combat.

In all respects micromissiles act like missile battery salvos; cost and volume are for four micromissiles.

Laser Pod(LP): The laser pod is a pair of five-terajoule laser cannon in a gunpod, designed to give warpfighters much-needed punch. It has the range and damage of a regular light laser cannon.

Drone Fighters(DF): These are remotely-piloted fightercraft with a Level 6 robot brain and a full array of Astrogation, Gunnery and Starship Pilot programs, all at Level 6 as well.

Armed with the standard array of fightercraft weapons, drone fighters inflict 400 points(40D10) of maximum structural damage per turn, making up to four attacks per turn.

Multi-Missile Drones(MMD): Seen on destroyer and dreadnaught-class starships, multi-missile drones are robotically-piloted bombers(with the same robot brain and programming as the drone fighter, above) armed with either 230 torpedos or 460 seeker missiles on board.

Assuming it releases its entire payload in one turn, a multi-missile drone can inflict 6900 points(690D10)of maximum structural damage per turn.

Grav Beam: Grav beam projectors project a short-range(120 meter)grav beam which otherwise acts as a set of grapples, using the canon Knight Hawks rules for grappling, save for the fact that a ship caught in a grav beam can make a successful Starship Pilot roll to escape the grav beam or use the same chance for grappling to sever the grav beam with the ship's own.

Ships caught in a grav beam can be pulled towards the grappling ship at a rate of one hex per turn.

Grav beams can also be used defensively to augment the ship's grav shielding, subtracting 25% from any incoming attack's chance to hit.

A grav beam used defensively cannot be used for grappling in the same turn and vice-versa.

Mines(M): Mines are antimatter warheads which can be emplaced in a volume of space by a ship equipped for minelaying. Mines are proximity-fused, with passive sensors which detect magnetic flux, heat and radiation(such as the heat and radiation pulse made when the density of local spacetime is changed by a drivefield intersecting it)and detonate.

Each mine does 1000 points(100D10)maximum structural damage per turn, and a ship can lay a number of mines per turn equal to its maximum load, for a maximum of 10 mines per hex.

SHIP's VEHICLES

If a ship is carrying space vehicles, it can launch them as an attack as well.

Starting Speed:Vehicles(and missiles) launched from a ship begin the game with the same speed as the platform which launched them.

Remote Piloting: Missiles and drones launched from a ship can be remotely piloted from the ship. The remote pilot uses his Vehicles: Remote or Gunner: Missiles skill and half of the missile/drone's robot brain's Vehicular Combat(Starship) skill to guide the missile/drone to its target.

DEFENSIVE SYSTEMS

Auto-Laser Quad Battery(ALQB): Four autolasers mounted in a robotically-controlled turret, designed for point-defense against missiles and fighters. Each ALQB fired in a turn subtracts 25% from any incoming missile's chance to hit.

Anti-Beam Missiles(ABM): Similar in structure to an ICM, an anti-beam missile has a warhead of water(which turns to ice vapor in space) and strips of gold foil which blanket an entire hex upon detonating, thus providing a defense against both laser and particle-beam weapons.

ABMs are launched in salvos of four, blanketing four hexes in a line up to sixty hexes(3,600 meters) away from the ship launching them, each salvo subtracting 25% from the chance to hit for each beam weapon which passes through the cloud it creates, the beam's damage being reduced by 25% even if it passes through the cloud successfully.

An ABM has an ADF and MR of 60, with an endurance of one turn, after which it detonates.

Grav Shielding(GS): Grav shielding generates a skin-tight field of artificial gravity around starships HS 2 or larger, deflecting beams and missiles away from the ship.

Grav shielding subtracts 50% from a missile or beam weapon's chance to hit, halving the damage of any beam or missile which hits.