XM-105 Titan

The XM-105 Titan is a massive, 10Mt interplanetary strategic thermonuclear missile.

Titans are typically stationed in orbital silos or on first strike stealth ships. This strategic asset is used for destroying hardened military targets, large orbital structures, and strategic planetary infrastructure.

Compared to its STS cousins, the XM-105 is far too large and unwieldy to be used in standard fleet engagements. While it has approximately 10km/s dV for orbital maneuvers, the acceleration is extremely slow. Its guidance package follows a simple intercept trajectory with no provisions for evasion.

There have been situations where Titans are used to scuttle crippled capital ships or to annihilate swarms of strike craft, but performance tapers off heavily against standard fleet formations. There are simply too many enemy ships and too few Titans to make it through enemy anti-missile defenses.

The Titan-B is a MIRV variant used for glassing/salting planets. It contains 10 250kt pure fission devices set to ground burst. Each submunition has limited capability to maneuver to independent targets. This variant has been historically deployed against civilian urban centers and military installations on planets deemed too costly to capture.

The Titan-C is an experimental bunker buster antimatter warhead variant. It has an approximate yield of 1Gt. The warhead featured a plasteel penetrator with a terminal boost engine and was capable of penetrating between 30-100m of earth before detonating its payload. A single weapon was produced and deployed during the Subversion Wars against the fortress world of Cephi’xes. The entire command complex was destroyed, either through direct annihilation or by the resulting aftershocks. Despite detonating underground, most of the energy was radiated out to space.

Due to the amount of antimatter required, it was deemed too expensive for use and no more have been produced since.