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=== In Game Description ===
What the Protectorate lacks in advanced missile technology, it makes up for in volume. These rocket launchers are just a series of tubes banded together with an ignition circuit run through them but up close, where they can't miss, their damage rivals that of even a particle beam.

=== Stats ===
{| class="wikitable"
! RL18 Launcher
! 
|-
| Faction || <span style="color:orange;">'''OSP'''</span>
|-
| Cost || 30 pts<ref>as the RL18 has only 1 valid payload, a fully loaded RL18 can be considered to cost 66 points total.</ref>
|-
| Dimensions || 3x1x3
|-
| Hitpoints || 100
|-
| Hitpoints to Function || 10
|-
| Damage Threshold|| 15
|-
| Mass || 8 tonnes
|-
| Catastrophic Event Prob.|| 5%
|-
| DC Priority || Medium
|-
| Missile size || 2
|-
| Missile Classes || Long Rocket<ref>Between this and the size 2 limit, the only valid weapon the RL18 can fire is the R-2 'Piranha' Rocket.</ref>
|-
| Capacity || 18
|-
| Traverse rate || 35 deg/s
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| Elevation rate || 20 deg/s
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| Elevation limit || x<ref>it appears to be about +25-30 (most likely 25), and -5 degrees using a protractor visually.</ref>
|-
| Power || <span style="color:#FF4040;">'''-50'''</span> (kW)
|-
|}

=== Lore ===
''GLACIER-CRYPT CMDLINE...|| BETHEL -8N''

''USERS:''

''Keystone, C [ID: CKEY]''

''Vance, N [ID: NVAN]''


''[CKEY]: Nova, I'm sending you the schematics for the upgraded RL18.''

''[NVAN]: Only friends can call me Nova. What am I supposed to do with this?''

''[CKEY]: Give it to whoever runs weapons development in the Protectorate Navy, obviously. Alexander and I modified the ignition triggers for electrical heat-sensitive fuzes, these should have better reliability in cold black than the atmospheric factory standard.''

''[NVAN]: Clever. Average failure rate? I was the one who wrote the original report on that.''

''[CKEY]: Zero. The only hang-up is that you can't fire it all at once, each trigger needs to be carefully timed to the ignition order. It's still rapid fire but instead of a shotgun blast, it'll be more like a machine gun.''

''[NVAN]: You're wasting your talents with the Sevens. Were you not a traitorous snake, I'd say you should work with me.''

''[CKEY]: How thoughtful. I wouldn't accept anyway, I have things I need to do and I can't be tied down in an us-vs-them system.''

''[NVAN]: That's funny considering you're helping us under the table. Just keep your head down, Cass. When Sam rolls in looking for blood, you won't be getting any help from me.''