INDEPENDENT WEAPONS PLATFORM:

CLASSIFICATION: Weapons Platform
LENGTH: 50-200 m
TONNAGE: 100-200 kilograms
MANOEUVERABILITY: Class A+
CREW: 0
TROOPS: 0
FIGHTER(s): 0
POWER SOURCE: 1 Microwave Power Receiver - variable
DURATION: none
WEAPONS: 2 Heavy Fusion Beam Cannons & green Plasma Cannons or 2 Tactical Attack Missile Gravimetric Mag Tubes or 2 Tactical Penetrator Gravimetric Mag Tubes
DEFENCES: EM/Gravimetric Field Defence Grid

The Independent Weapons Platform defends the Sparta class Mobile Operations Center and other undefended ships. They are placed in space around the Sparta and hold in a grid around the Sparta. The Pythagoras class Mobile Command Module provides a power source via a steady microwave beam to fill the IWPs' capacitors. These ships have weapons on both front and back so that they may attack two targets at once.