VAY Flare Gunship
Heavy Pinpoint Strike
| Armor: | 1550 HP |
| Build cost: | 250 RU |
| Build time: | 32 sec |
| Maximum speed: | 220 m/s |
| Turning rate: | 70.0 deg/s |
| Squadron firepower: | 285.71 HP/s |
| weapon type | count | RPM | damage | individual firepower | total firepower |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vay_flaregunR | 1 | 28.57 | 300 | 143 | 142.9 |
| vay_flaregunL | 1 | 28.57 | 300 | 143 | 142.9 |
Very little information is available on this craft. Speed and armor is quite high for a ship of its size indicating a continual improvement of Vaygr technology towards galactic standards. Armament is an extraordinarily powerful but highly inaccurate long range projectile weapon. These projectiles, called 'flares', undergo several nuclear reactions on contact with the target to produce a concentrated and coherent burst of high energy radiation.
Only extremely well-trained and prepared repair crews should attempt to field-repair damage caused by these weapons, as their secondary radiation bypasses the radiation shielding of most hulls thinner than a Heavy Corvette's. Where the Vaygr could have acquired this technology is unknown, though intelligence estimates rate it as extremely unlikely that it is a native invention based on the apparent level of stagnation their culture had reached at the beginning of their invasion.
