Azrael-class World Killer

The Azrael is a TL11, unmanned, non-superscience doomsday machine, capable of accelerating its massive SM+10 hull at 0.5 c (half of lightspeed or 93141.2 mps) giving a relative mass of 12,000 lbRest mass x 1/ √(1 − v^2/c^2) and a time dilation of 0.866225. It is supposed to destroy any terrestrial planet it's aimed at. This amount of raw kinetic energy is around 42,000,000 megatons of impact, the likes of which has not been seen on earth since the dinosaur-killer of the Cretaceous.
==Propulsion and Impact==
The Azrael is propelled by two TL11 fusion rockets, fed by four massive hydrogen fuel tanks. At 1,800 mps, it activates its electromagnetic ramscoop, allowing it to pick up minute amounts of hydrogen from interstellar space. At this speed, it can sustain its own fuel supply, and will accelerate towards its target unless destroyed or sabotaged.
==Defenses==
The front of the Azrael is coated in a double-layer of TL11 diamondoid armor, giving it dDR 140 (DR 1,400), and has a major battery of fixed very-rapid-fire UV lasers, with a tertiary battery of 28cm fixed missile launchers. Its center and rear are unarmed, and have only half the armor.
===How Much Dakka?===
As the center and rear of the Azrael have dDR 70, it is possible to damage it with enough firepower, as below: 
*A SM+5 strike craft can equip a Medium Battery of Very Rapid Fire guns to barrage the Azrael with 2cm warheads (6dx5, average 105 damage each), but larger ordinance will be needed for boarding actions (see Last Ditch Effort). By this math, it should only take 4-5 hits to reduce the vessel to 0 HP.
*A 3 GJ beam weapon (6dx5), which will require a Major Battery upon an SM+10 ship, or a Spinal Battery on an SM+9 ship.
==Weaknesses==
The Azrael's weapon batteries in front-facing fixed mounts, meaning it can be attacked from behind. However, it must be attacked early, as once it gets near lightspeed, it will be nigh-impossible to stop. It may be possible to approach the vehicle from outside its effective range and catch up behind it--or even use an external clamp to attach to it, before it gets too far!
===Last Ditch Effort ===
As the Azrael is unmanned, it may be possible to sabotage or reprogram the mainframe from inside the ship, forcing the ship to sling itself somewhere safe--such as into a solar body.
== See Also ==
*For other sci-fi doomsday weapons, see "Doomsday Weapons" by Steven Marsh, from Pyramid 3/9: Space Opera!
==Notes==
==References==
*Spaceships 3: Warships and Space Pirates, p.23
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