Hyperspace Missile

Overview

Of all the weapons and technology the Tau'ri have developed, the InterPlanetary Hyperspace Missile is perhaps one of the most feared. One of the strengths of the intercontinental ballistic missile is the ability to hit targets across the globe without endangering your own forces. Once the SGC had begun creating their own ships, research had begun into creating news ways to deliver payloads without needing to endanger them.

First suggested by Jennifer Hailey, the Hyperspace Missile can deliver weapons of mass destruction without endangering a ship.

Design

The design for the Hyperspace missile was first suggested by Jennifer Hailey. However, the idea was shelved because of the costs. The use of hyperspace missiles meant the loss of a sublight engine and a hyperdrive and it did not provide the destruction to warrant those losses. However, with the creation of HORIZON, the Hyperspace Missile Program was born. Earth takes the hyperspace missile very seriously as the destructive power will turn an entire continent into a pool of molten rock and render the planet uninhabitable from the fallout.

Specs

The InterPlanetary Hyperspace Missile (IPHM) is essentially a small spacecraft possessing sublight engines, a navigational computer, and a hyperdrive. Coordinates are preprogrammed into the navigational computer. Once the missile is launched, the sublight engines will take it into orbit around the planet. Once in orbit, it will engage hyperdrives and hyperjump to its target. It will exit hyperspace in orbit around the target planet and deploy a HORIZON weapons platform and two decoys. Like the HORIZON, the decoys will release ten missiles but these missiles are all decoys. This creates a total of thirty missiles with only six Mark IX nuclear warheads among them. The Mark IX missiles will scatter and find their own targets. When they strike, a 2000 gigaton fireball will instantly vaporize anything in 80 thousand square kilometers (100 mi radius) instantly with the shockwave from the explosion traveling much further.

While simplistic in concept, this weapon allows weapons of mass destruction to be deployed without endangering ships. This ability makes the weapon extremely feared. It is also very expensive. Hyperspace Missiles are only used when scorched earth is demanded. What makes this weapon so feared is a combination of the terrifying payload it carries, the ease in which it can be deployed, and how little is lost even if such a weapon fails.

Conclusion

Earth's ingenuity and advanced technology has created a beast that can lay waste from a safe distance. The question remains: how does the rest of the galaxy feel about this?