Cripple Shock Missile

The Cripple Shock Missile is a weapon used by the Singulus to disable enemy ships.

Use
With the goal of eradicating all humankind from the galaxy, the Singulus realized that would need away to extract information to find colonial settlements from human ships. ISA ships had the frustrating habit of constantly updating their QST drives to escape quickly if they came under attack. Singulus engineers devised a weapon to trap and ensnare human vessels without destroying them, the Cripple Shock missile.

Instead of impacting a target like a regular missile, Cripple Shock missiles are designed to either interrupt a ship as it tunes-in to a loaction, or prevent the tune-out of a ship from ever occuring. It does this by mimicking a quantum wave in normal space, causing the fabric of space time to vibrate on a different frequency than that of the target ship. This has the effect of drawing out ships from QST as the QST drive has to reset its variables to form a new wave.

The location and yield of this weapon is critical, as the missile must be a safe distance away from the launcher to ensure the ship firing it doesn't get stranded in its own trap. The Singulus have used these missiles as a cover for retreat, slowing enemy ships to sublight speeds just enough so Singulus ships can tune away from an unfavorable engagement. They can also be used to deny other ships a means to travel in certain sectors of space, producing chokepoints for Singulus ships to attack unsuspecting enemies.