Strike package

"Basic physics. High mass plus high velocity equals ouch."

- Second Lieutenant Norigom, when queried by General K'Bor, son of QulDun

The strike package was the name given to a bombardment weapon devised by Second Lieutenant Norigom of the in 2409 for the raid on Utopia Planitia.

Mechanism
The strike package was an incredibly simple weapon consisting of ten metric tons of -238, a crude gimbal-mounted, and a basic  capable of making very minor course corrections.

It worked purely on. Despite the rocket motor, once dropped from the cargo bay of a starship it would continue on effectively the same course and speed from which it was released. Simple physics meant that the velocity of the deploying starship dictated the resulting yield. 

History
Norigom based the weapon on crude kinetic s he had devised during the, chunks of asteroids he had fitted with rocket motors featuring remote triggers. With these weapons the Nausicaan successfully destroyed the starship.

The mupwI' deployed the strike package to attack the control center of Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards on 2 March 2409, launching it at 25,000 kilometers per second. Seventeen seconds later, the weapon impacted with a theoretical yield equivalent to 750.7 megatons of TNT, obliterating the control center. Part of the weapon continued on to impact on the Martian surface.