TelQuessir wrote:
Also the Majiirian's lasers are secondary to the SBAs, which implies a strategic bombardment hybrid railgun/missile array designed to deploy independent multi-warhead attack vehicles ballistically against capital ships (or entire flotillas of smaller craft). An autocannon with conventional munitions isn't able to redirect its shells in flight to intercept at anything outside of extremely short range, a modern fusion warship's evasive capability.

A missile tends to use most of its onboard fuel for initial velocity and suffers the same fate as the massdriver round because once it runs out of fuel it becomes a ballistic shell. Fast capital ship drives are more efficient, so the ship usually can feint the missile so that it makes a lot of trajectory corrections until it runs out of fuel.

Solution to this issue, Hiigaran style, is to accelerate a missile payload with a massdriver (using it as a first stage) so the munition can pursue the target with its entire fuel load. Missile range to enable has also been increased so that the missiles actively pursue targets closer to it so as to increase hit rate vs evasive targets, and to minimise detectability of the missile itself (active target acquisition methods used tells the enemy they're under missile attack way before the missile actually arrives).

And that's what we'll say about the SBA in PDS documentation.