Space mine

There are many different types of space mines including proximity mines, sleeper mines, seeker mines, and ion mines.

Standard mines are deployed in a big minefield because they require contact to ignite the fuse. When a craft runs into it, a high explosive chemical charge damages or destroys anything nearby. These are good against all craft types.

Proximity mines are your basic mines that explode whenever an enemy craft gets close enough to set of its fuse. When a craft runs into it, the blast sprays a cloud of fragments into a ten to one hundred meter blast cloud. Proximity mines are perfect for use against starfighters.

Sleeper mines are just like standard mines, but are extremely harder to detect.

Seeker mines are mines that when a craft flies close by thay become active and home in on the target at medium speeds. They explode on contact with a little less power than standard mines. They are also very hard to detect. They are good against mainly capital ships but can be devastating to starfighters too.

Ion mines are used to disable enemy craft flying nearby. They work very similar to proximity mines. Instead of fragments though, they ignite a big ion cloud that will disable anything in the blast area. There are also other types of ion mines.