2318, Executor's Lament
Boom~~ Boom~~ Boom!!!
The continuous explosions rang out without end, while the entire ground shook violently as though a magnitude-seven earthquake had erupted. People on the bridge staggered in every direction, scrambling to find something nearby to brace themselves against.
The Lusankaya Executor-class Super Star Destroyer was 19,000 meters long—essentially the size of a medium-sized city. Destructive power capable of shaking an entire city was terrifying beyond measure.
The Ogre-class Siege Cruiser was precisely the sort of warship whose strengths and weaknesses were both exceptionally pronounced.
In terms of combat power, it could not even defeat a frigate. In terms of mobility, it was slow and cumbersome. But the Super-heavy Proton Torpedoes it launched possessed nearly world-destroying destructive power!
Super-heavy Proton Torpedoes did not actually involve much technology. They were simply ordinary Proton Torpedoes enlarged to an extreme, and were not particularly difficult to manufacture. But why had neither the Galactic Republic nor the Galactic Empire chosen to develop this kind of weapon? The main reason was still its hit rate.
With current technology, both electronic jamming and point-defense systems were highly mature. Missile attacks were either jammed or intercepted. Therefore, to improve a missile's ability to penetrate defenses, it needed anti-jamming and anti-interception measures—such as shields, electronic countermeasure systems, intelligent guidance systems, and so on.
If the target was merely a fighter, these systems did not need to be overly complex, since there was only so much a fighter could do. But if the target was a warship, the point-defense and electronic jamming systems carried by a capital ship could interfere with missiles quite easily.
So the question arose: should they keep increasing the technological sophistication of missiles, allowing them to resist jamming and interception while driving the cost of a single missile to astronomical heights,