Hyperion Missiles

Hyperion missiles, designed by the Red Hand, are a series of ship-to-ship weapons and planet killers.

Hyperion Mk-1
The Mark-1 Hyperion missile was the weapon that made human explosives famous. When the Hyperion Mk-1 was revealed by the Red Hand, two versions were released: an in-atmosphere version with a maximum yield of 100 megatons, and an exo-atmopsheric version with a yield of 150 megatons. In the year 2180, this enabled any ship, from corvettes to dreadnoughts, equipped with the Hyperion to cripple almost any ship it faced.

Hyperion Mk-2
The Mk-2 Hyperion missile was a step up, incorporating Cetza and Nayam technology, Introduced in 2200, it was able to reach a yield of 1 gigaton. The Mk-2 missiles were developed solely for military use, and were only used by battlecruisers, battleships, dreadnoughts, and occasionally a few carriers.

Hyperion Mk-2a
The Mk-2a was developed in 2202. Rather than being a nuclear fission, fission-fusion, or pure fusion weapon, the Mk-2a used antimatter. Production of the 2a is handled by Krause industries, which use the Stoyer-Kushinawa Nuclear Power Plants to power their antiproton creation.

The antiprotons created are then contained using fullerenes inside the Hyperion bomb casing. Because the weapon contained over 465,000 kilograms of antimatter, the yield of the weapon approached a single petaton.