"Marlin" Penetrator Missiles

Unlike the complex and expensive Pufferfish, Eel and Flatfish-type missiles, the Marlin is a high speed, high acceleration dumbfire ordnance package designed to be fired in volleys to inflict the maximum amount of damage to a target within the vehicle's line of sight. Just as with the other missile types, it employs advanced magnetoplasma rocket technology, but it lighter and lacks control systems other than stabilizing fins, and moves exceedingly quickly. The Marlin itself is actually a small, sharpened Durandium-covered cylinder, that a few seconds before impact will surround itself in superheated plasma and small scalar field to penetrate shields, and detonate into a brilliant plasmatic explosion.

Length: .6 meters Atmospheric Range: 1000km Atmospheric Velocity: Mach 3 Damage: Tier 8 Area of Effect: 15m

Vacuum Velocity: .40c