I've thought about it on occasion, even prototyped a few ideas. Adapting it straight up to a medium mount makes for a fairly unsatisfying weapon at any reasonable stat level, and it's also a weapon that has a positive swarming factor (the more you have, the better they are), so letting you put it in more locations can be a bit hazardous. So I'd need to find some approach that's different, but still feels like a Skata missile.
I think I've a very rough, totally brainstormed sort of an idea on
what the medium Skata could be?
A Medium Skata missile could be solely purposed for pressure, but not outright damage itself. It's goal could be laying down the same type of field (micro-sized, so as not to completely saturate the field per-salvo in radioactive death) that the Frasrare-series of weapons do, but on either a
very limited mag of roughly 20-30 missiles or a
reloading mag that takes 15-25 seconds-per-burst, with a single salvo restocking within a minute (with an appropriately hefty cost to the weapon, so people would have to choose whether to outfit the ship for radioactive saturation over damage, or even a hybrid build
That way, the Skata's middle-line derivative could be potentially deadly, but only with proper investment into it?
