Fission Missile

"The Fission Missile was created by Spectre R&D to help Spectre hulls deal with increased numbers of enemies. Armed with AoE and a burst of sub-projectiles, the Fission Missile makes easy work of any swarms or groups of enemies."

General
The Fission Missile is an Explosive weapon similar to the Nova Driver in spirit. Upon impact, it splits into 5 projectiles 72 degrees apart with a projectile range of 500 m. Each of them then further splits into two, 90 degrees apart, travelling for 1,000 m. Both the primary and secondary projectiles travel at 5,000 m/s and have a Piercing Amount of 5.

Advantages
The Fission Missile combines the best aspects of the Nova Driver and Manifold Missile, allowing the projectiles to cause widespread damage if ships are clustered very closely together. The secondary missiles after the primary detonation also have the ability to pierce through multiple targets, further quintupling the amount of damage this weapon is able to deal.

Disadvantages
Since it deals explosive damage, the damage can be mitigated by using defenses that negate explosive damage, such as Shockwave Nano Shields, or Spectre Explosive Resistors.

This weapon doesn't have the longest range, so it is ill advised to use this on Ranger Hulls.