Weapons

In Interstellar Space: Genesis, weapons and the proper weapon type mean the difference between being completely unable to hit enemy ships; being destroyed before you ever get within range to fire your weapons; finding a fleet that is completely immune to your weapons (as with Beam Weapons against Neutronium Armor Coating); or easily winning a battle unscathed.

Most weapons can be enhanced with Weapon Mods, and all benefit from Miniaturization which reduces the amount of Space they require as well as opening up some of the more powerful mods.

Weapon Types

Beam Weapons are light but subject to both Accuracy and Damage dissipation with distance;
Kinetic Weapons avoid Damage drop off but have the lowest accuracy.
Missiles suffer no range penalties or limitations, but must travel across the battlefield using your best engines and may be shot down.
Torpedoes are classified as Missiles but instantaneously reach their targets and are immune to destruction in flight.

As weapons are researched they may added to a ship class on the Ship Design Screen subject to the Space available on their respective Hull. Existing ships may be retro-fitted at Orbital Stations to the latest design using the construction queue of a colony in that system.

Each weapon on a ship hits or misses individually (even when combined into a single bank), and can even be targeted at different enemies by selecting groups on the Tactical Combat screen.

Beam Weapons

Beam weapons have a max range of 25 squares and drop off in both damage and accuracy with distance at 4% and 5% per square respectively. They tend to be smaller than other weapons and have a base Accuracy of +25%. They fire focused beams of energy such as light.

Beam Weapons
Weapon	Tree				Mods	Notes
Laser	Weap 1	1	4	20	Auto Fire Heavy Mount Point Defense Continuous No Rng Disp
Fusion Beam	Weap 2	2	6	25	Heavy Mount Armor Piercing Point Defense Continuous
Ion Cannon	Weap 2	4	10	30	Continuous	Damage to shields and systems only
Neutron Beam	Weap 3	4	12	30	Heavy Mount Continuous No Rng Disp	Chance to stun for 1 round when shields are down
Graviton Flux	Weap 4	5	15	30	Heavy Mount Continuous	2x hull damage
Phasor	Weap 5	7	20	35	Heavy Mount Armor Piercing Shield Piercing Point Defense Continuous
Plasma Cannon	Weap 7	16	35	70	Auto Fire Heavy Mount	2x damage dissipation
Disruptor Beam	Weap 8	70	70	70	Heavy Mount Point Defense	No damage dissipation 2x accuracy dissipation
Death Ray	Weap 10	175	500	200	Heavy Mount
Chaos Chain	Ruins	28	80	150	Heavy Mount	2 extra random targets at less damage
Ion Discharger	Ruins	0	0	150	Heavy Mount	Disables shields, weapons, and engines for 2 turns, even with shields up 2 turn cooldown

Kinetic Weapons

Kinetic weapons have a max range of 25 squares and drop off in accuracy (5% per square) but not damage over distance. They are hard hitting but heavier than beams and have the lowest base Accuracy at +0%. They fire actual projectiles at speeds which reach their targets instantaneously.

Kinetic Weapons
Weapon	Tree			Mods	Notes
Tungsten Gun	Weap 1	7	25	Auto Fire Heavy Mount Armor Piercing Point Defense
Particle Accelerator	Weap 2	10	40	Auto Fire Heavy Mount Shield Piercing
Railgun	Weap 4	15	50	Heavy Mount Shield Piercing	-50% accuracy dissipation
Flak Cannon	Weap 5	12	30	Auto Fire Point Defense	PD Only, +75% PD Accuracy (rather than base 25%)
Wurtzite Cannon	Weap 6	35	50	Auto Fire Heavy Mount Point Defense Armor Piercing	2x accuracy dissipation
Guass-Coil Gun	Weap 8	60	80	Auto Fire Heavy Mount Point Defense Shield Piercing	No accuracy dissipation
Doom Cannon	Weap 9	250	180	Auto Fire Heavy Mount
Matter Streamer	Ruins	150	125	Heavy Mount Armor Piercing	2 turn cooldown

Missiles

Missiles have unlimited range with no distance penalties but must travel to their target using the best available drives. They have the highest accuracy of any weapon at 75%. They can be shot down (especially with Point Defense weapons), though this can be countered somewhat by firing large salvos at once to overwhelm enemy defenses or by adding the Heavy Armor weapon mod. They can be evaded with an ECM Jammer, which gives a -70% penalty to their change to hit.

Missiles have a limited number of rounds which can be selected on the Ship Design screen between 2 and 20--the Space values given below are for the default of 5 missiles and scales up or down depending on the number.

Missiles
Weapon	Tree			Mods
Nuclear Missile	Weap 1	7	30	Heavy Armor Fast MIRV Anti-ECM
Polaris Missile	Weap 3	14	30	Heavy Armor Fast MIRV Anti-ECM
Quantum Missile	Weap 5	22	30	Heavy Armor Fast MIRV Anti-ECM
Nightmare Missile	Weap 7	40	30	Heavy Armor Fast MIRV Anti-ECM

Torpedoes

Torpedoes are technically classified as Missiles and share their unlimited range and 75% Accuracy but cannot be shot down. ECM Jammer penalties, however, do apply to them. They have unlimited ammo but are the only class of weapons with no available Weapon Mods and have a cool down period between firing.

Torpedoes
Weapon	Tree			Notes
Photon Torpedo	Weap 7	70	100	FTL: instant hit at end of round 1 turn cool down
Plasma Torpedo	Weap 9	140	90	-2 damage per square traveled 1 turn cool down
Positron Torpedo	Ruins	150	135	2 turn cool down

Beam Weapons | Kinetic Weapons | Missiles | Torpedoes