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With their cities being shelled from nearly over the horizon, the Vulpesants needed a way to strike back at Venrock targets. The Arkii provided rocket technology to the Vulpesants since before the war, and this was by far their crowning achievement. Known as the Arkii Mark 5 Long Range Missile, it was carried in pieces within its launching vehicle, assembled in the field, and fired at any target within one thousand miles. The three stage rocket attained sub-orbital flight and could strike a target one quarter mile wide or larger accurately, and was very effective in bombarding naval installations, military and air bases. These vehicles would be deployed in formations of eight, and would fire as their own respective rockets had been assembled, leading their Venrock targets to refer to them as “Falling Fire”. They would be accompanied by APCs which would carry full rocket assemblies to resupply the launch vehicle.

The rocket itself is a three stage machine, with the first boosters burning for only ten seconds before breaking away. In those ten seconds, though, the rocket was accelerated to nearly six hundred milers per hour, and attained an altitude of almost one mile. The first stage boosters disengage and fall away, while the second stage ignites simultaneously. A timing mechanism working in conjunction with a compass, gravitational sensor and altimeter detects the rockets angle, time of flight and position, and adjusts its course as necessary. The second stage burns out and breaks away at the apex of the flight, seventy to eighty miles high, and the final stage, which contains the warhead and a sizeable rocket, kicks in and burns for just over a minute. The warhead can be set to detonate on impact with the ground or any hard object, or explode at a set altitude. The final stage can be equipped with a massive high explosive warhead, a cluster bomb, and even incendiary charges.

Cluster bombs were used extensively while attacking Venrock airship bases, as they were set to explode over the tarmacs, destroying the craft that were parked there. Incendiary rounds were also successfully used against fuel depots and oil fields off the coast of Venrock Country, facilities so heavily defended the Venrock high command did not believe they had been attacked so effectively till they had surveyed the damage themselves. Venrock air forces were deployed to hunt down the launch vehicles, but were met with very little success. Traveling in small groups of no more than 24 vehicles, these thorns in the Venrocks sides would fire several barrages of rockets, then relocate or hide, camouflaging their tanks and APCs to vanish in the dense brush of Vulpesant Country. If capture seemed an imminent threat, crews were instructed to detonate whatever warheads they had within their vehicle with the hatches closed and dogged down, to maximize their destructive capabilities. Any rocket fuel would add to the ensuing explosion and fireball, leaving the Venrock forces with little to examine.

The vehicle used to launch and assemble these rockets is a modified heavy equipment and supply carrier. A well trained crew can build a MK5 in little over an hour, and can have its launch readiness tests done within thirty minutes after that. It is then lifted into position and fired after the crew locks the vehicle down and clears the area. Only one technician, known as the “Fireman” remains behind to fire the rocket.

Description
I'd recommend clicking download to full-view, there's a lot to see.

With their cities being shelled from nearly over the horizon, the Vulpesants needed a way to strike back at Venrock targets. The Arkii provided rocket technology to the Vulpesants since before the war, and this was by far their crowning achievement. Known as the Arkii Mark 5 Long Range Missile, it was carried in pieces within its launching vehicle, assembled in the field, and fired at any target within one thousand miles. The three stage rocket attained sub-orbital flight and could strike a target one quarter mile wide or larger accurately, and was very effective in bombarding naval installations, military and air bases. These vehicles would be deployed in formations of eight, and would fire as their own respective rockets had been assembled, leading their Venrock targets to refer to them as “Falling Fire”. They would be accompanied by APCs which would carry full rocket assemblies to resupply the launch vehicle.

The rocket itself is a three stage machine, with the first boosters burning for only ten seconds before breaking away. In those ten seconds, though, the rocket was accelerated to nearly six hundred milers per hour, and attained an altitude of almost one mile. The first stage boosters disengage and fall away, while the second stage ignites simultaneously. A timing mechanism working in conjunction with a compass, gravitational sensor and altimeter detects the rockets angle, time of flight and position, and adjusts its course as necessary. The second stage burns out and breaks away at the apex of the flight, seventy to eighty miles high, and the final stage, which contains the warhead and a sizeable rocket, kicks in and burns for just over a minute. The warhead can be set to detonate on impact with the ground or any hard object, or explode at a set altitude. The final stage can be equipped with a massive high explosive warhead, a cluster bomb, and even incendiary charges.

Cluster bombs were used extensively while attacking Venrock airship bases, as they were set to explode over the tarmacs, destroying the craft that were parked there. Incendiary rounds were also successfully used against fuel depots and oil fields off the coast of Venrock Country, facilities so heavily defended the Venrock high command did not believe they had been attacked so effectively till they had surveyed the damage themselves. Venrock air forces were deployed to hunt down the launch vehicles, but were met with very little success. Traveling in small groups of no more than 24 vehicles, these thorns in the Venrocks sides would fire several barrages of rockets, then relocate or hide, camouflaging their tanks and APCs to vanish in the dense brush of Vulpesant Country. If capture seemed an imminent threat, crews were instructed to detonate whatever warheads they had within their vehicle with the hatches closed and dogged down, to maximize their destructive capabilities. Any rocket fuel would add to the ensuing explosion and fireball, leaving the Venrock forces with little to examine.

The vehicle used to launch and assemble these rockets is a modified heavy equipment and supply carrier. A well trained crew can build a MK5 in little over an hour, and can have its launch readiness tests done within thirty minutes after that. It is then lifted into position and fired after the crew locks the vehicle down and clears the area. Only one technician, known as the “Fireman” remains behind to fire the rocket.