# ✅ The STATIC weapon datasheet — `Weapon`, `Shell`, `AssortMissileParam`

The corpus's weapon numbers came from a **runtime capture**
([weapon-datasheet-runtime](../weapon-datasheet-runtime.md),
[weapon-struct-runtime](weapon-struct-runtime.md)). The static tables behind them
are now located and read, with no emulator involved.

## How they were found

Not by guessing a filename. **IDXD field names are literal strings in the string
pool**, so the stat-shaped keys already harvested from the disassembly
(`data/config-keys.txt` — `MegaTons`, `GuidanceType`, `SpiralType`,
`Straight1Type`, `BulletLimit`, `CrewCount`, `HP_CLASS`, …) can be searched
directly across every record on the disc. 8 648 records carry at least one, and
they cluster on three record names.

## What is there

| record | per pak | fields | what it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| `Weapon` | **131** | 21 | the launcher — rate of fire, heat, ammo, SE/FX |
| `Shell` | **131** | 37 | the projectile — damage, ballistics, collision, FX |
| `AssortMissileParam` | **9** | 20 | missile guidance tuning |

131 `Weapon` and 131 `Shell` records, one-to-one, in **each** of the per-language
`GP_MAIN_GAME_*.pak` files; a weapon and its shell share a pak entry. Note this is
**131**, not the 59 of the `WEAPONS` name roster — the roster is the *arsenal
menu's* list, not the full set.

### `Weapon` (sample: `Weapon_TCAF_DeltaSaber_Rocket_P`)

```
ID / Name                 Weapon_TCAF_DeltaSaber_Rocket_P
TargetType                Vessel,Craft,Structure
ShotType                  Single          ReticleType 5
HitRatio                  1.0             SprayAngle  4.0
Interval 1.0              ReadyInterval 0.0
TriggerShotCount 1        TriggerShotInterval 0.1
LoadingCount 1000         Heating 0.00    Cooling 0.10
Mass 100                  SpecialWeaponType 0
ShootSE / ReadySE / FinishSE, MuzzleFlashFxModel_Loop / _OneShot
```

### `Shell` (sample: `Shell_TCAF_DeltaSaber_Rocket_P`)

```
Power 100.0               DamageType Shell        FailedDamageRatio 1.0
Velocity 3000.0           Acceleration 0.0        AngularVelocity 0.0
MinimumVelocity / MaximumVelocity 0.0
MinimumRange 10.0         MaximumRange 6000.0     LifeTime 3.0
CollisionType Capsule     Radius 30.0  Length 10.0  Volume 10.0
ShellMass 0.005           HP 0.0      MovementType Shell
IsGravitated Yes   IsDestructible No   IsLockable No   IsFullCollision No
IsFixedModel Yes   ShellModel wep_t085
Color_R/G/B 1.0 / 0.85 / 0.7
HitFxModel eff_h000  HitFxInEnd Yes  ContrailFxFrame GN_Trc_01
JetFxModel / JetFxFrame, HitSE_Damage / HitSE_NoDamage, ThrusterSE
```

`MaximumRange 6000.0` with the corpus's **world unit = 1 metre** makes this a
6 km rocket; `Velocity 3000.0` is 3 km/s.

### `AssortMissileParam` — the guidance model

```
GuidanceType 0   SpiralType 1   Straight1Type 1   Straight2Type 0
st1_df_aperture 0.5   st1_up_aperture 1.0   st1_up_bias_pow 0.5   st1_df_pitch 10
sp_sp_round_time  0.35 … 0.5     sp_sp_spiral_pow 0.05 … 0.1
sp_qu_cycle_time  0.6  … 1.2     sp_qu_bias_pow   0.35 … 0.65
sp_zg_cycle       0.2  … 0.4     sp_zg_bias       0.1  … 0.3
```

Three named motion modes with min/max ranges — `sp` spiral, `qu` quick-turn,
`zg` zig-zag — plus a straight-flight aperture and pitch. Nine variants ship.

## 🔴 And a controlled negative: `stageNN_settings.tbl` does not exist

`AUTO_SETTINGS` names 28 files `stage01_settings.tbl` … `stage29_settings.tbl`.
Probing pak entry names (`name_hash`) with **four** path prefixes — bare,
`stage\`, `arsenal\`, `dat\` — finds **0 of 116**, while the two controls in the
same loop (`stage\UnitGroup_S02.tbl`, `stage\AIParams_S02.tbl`) are **both
found**. So the reader and prefix convention are right and those files are simply
not on the disc — the same shape as `STAGENN_UNIT_MAX`.

## 🟡 Not settled

* Whether the 131 `Weapon` records reconcile with the runtime capture field by
  field — this locates and reads the table; it does not cross-check it.
* The other stat keys (`MegaTons`, `BulletLimit`, `CrewCount`, `HP_CLASS`,
  `HPGauge`, `WEAPON_CATEGORIES`) belong to records not opened here.
* Why the arsenal roster lists 59 of the 131 weapons.