Yurek-class Torpedo

The Yurek-class torpedo is the culmination of hundreds of years of development toward self-propelled ordinance. Named after an ancient orc sniper, the Yurek is the most ubiquitous anti-capital ship weapon on the market today.

The torpedo stands at 8 meters in length. Its high-impulse engine that allows it to accelerate at rates far exceeding that of any crewed vessel. The engine is supplemented by maneuvering thrusters that allow it to perform precise reorientation before acceleration, enabling the torpedo to be launched in nearly any direction before accelerating to intercept its target.

The Yurek houses a flight computer which can self-guide toward an assigned target, while also providing telemetry to its mothership. This flight computer can also receive updated orders via transmission, should it need to be disarmed, or assigned a new target. While the Yurek's flight computer has proven to be susceptible to hostile tweaking attacks provided sufficient time and talent, there are no accounts of this succeeding in combat situations, since there is rarely enough time before it intercepts it target, and self-detonates after a set time anyway.

The payload is configurable, including armor-stripping plasma, disabling electromagnetic pulses, disruptive flak fragments, concussive fulkrium, or even glimmer warheads, however few ships of any size rating can survive more than a couple direct-hits from a destructive torpedo.

The most common form of defense against the Yurek has been use of point-defense beam emitters linked to advanced targeting computers. While talented fighter pilots have been able to use interceptor craft to shoot down torpedoes, the limited window of opportunity in which to act makes this unreliable and dangerous for the pilots should they be caught in the blast.