WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
Biowarfare:
Nova Bombs: Developed by Aidan Finkh and his Team Athena, his work was primarily done on Julaca III, with initial testing done at Julaca’s local gas giant. The initial nova bomb worked, but with poor results, vaporizing only 2/3rd of Gradient’s largest moon. After being fully funded by the Republik Navy, Professor Finkh finalized design has been incorporated into the Republik military, and used dozens of times in combat with the Dionii. Favorite tactics for using this weapon include high-speed passes by battlecruisers deploying the weapon against high-population Dionii planets.
Antimatter Weapons: Developed first by scientist Anna Karpova of Saraguro who has studied Holot imagery during the Republik's last conflict with that species several hundred years ago, this project was quickly classified and was eventually put into full production. Faced with overwhelming numbers of Dionii vessels, the Republik Navy crash developed this program, fielding it in record time. Larger and larger amounts of weapons-grade antimatter were produced and eventually deployed on board all Navy ships. Crewmen to this day call missiles loaded with antimatter “Anna’s”.
Gigaton Warheads: Researcher Niko Abganerovo first developed this weapon at the Anciene Navy Station on Palma Sola, unfortunately the containment field in his lab wasn’t strong enough and poor Niko vaporized himself and half of Beta Continent, killing 210 million people. Telemetry and visual accounts later produced enough information (plus many of Niko’s notes to naval supervisors) to continue research and finally field this devastating system.
Dis Technology: Republik researchers have developed and fielded this newest type of mass destruction weapons, but due to their deadly nature they are being held in reserve by the Republik Navy, mainly in Terra Cluster. Dis weaponry, in the form of nano-D warheads, have been fielded and tested for decades, always successfully.