Cascade Missile

"The Cascade Missile fires a barrage of Explosive missiles creating large areas of damage in order to destroy groups of enemies."
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"The Cascade Missile fires a barrage of Alien missiles creating large areas of damage in order to destroy groups of enemies."
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"The Cascade Missile fires a barrage of Plasma missiles creating large areas of damage in order to destroy groups of enemies."
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"The Cascade Missile fires a barrage of Blight missiles creating large areas of damage in order to destroy groups of enemies."
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Stats
Note: The level 4 version is only available to the faction with the corresponding damage type: Altairian for Alien Damage, Umbra for Blight Damage, Pharmakon for Plasma Damage.

General
The Cascade Missile is a cross between the Arc Missile and the Manifold Missile, firing a trio of projectiles that each, on impact, branches out into subprojectiles.

Upon detonation, each primary missile splits into three secondary missiles around 12 degrees apart, which travel for 1,000 m at 1,500 m/s with a smaller explosion.

Advantages
This weapon has medium range and no minimum range, allowing it to be viable on all three roles - Fighter, Titan and Ranger.

The Cascade Missile has the potential to deal extra damage via its secondary projectiles against large targets such as carriers, dreadnoughts and The Bridge. With large enough AoE, this can even work against smaller targets.

Moreover, this weapon has a decent AoE which, combined with its splitting effect, can be used to reliably damage multiple enemies at once.

Disadvantages
The Cascade Missile has a slight spread, which decreases its effectiveness against single targets towards its maximum range. Moreover, you have to hit at least 2 of the secondary missiles in addition to all 3 of the primary ones to reach 100% of the listed DPS.

It lacks the Predictive Aim ability of the Nova Driver, and thus may not be as accurate.

Trivia

 * The Cascade Missile deals 31.5% DPS for the primary missile and 5.5% for each secondary missile, resulting in a total of 111% DPS.