The projectile would have to also have a warp-field generator to keep up with the missile tech and surpass it in usefulness.

Not necessarily. Dont forget missiles have an explosive warhead that can be detonated by a shot from an anti misile mystem. Allowing them to go faster than light both, hetps them to get to the target more quickly and avoid being shot down by a pesky droid sentry or what have you.

Also putting a warp generator on a projectile would essentialy turn it into a misile, because the driver would now have a propultion system of its own. Also I despite the great leap in technology they have I dont think that fleets fight each other from too great a distance. Shooting a black hole at someone even a sub luminal speeds is devestating, and how you would attach anything to a black hole anyway is anyone's guess.

You see, the whole point of having projectiles capable of moving faster than light is so that you can actually hit targets that are moving faster than the speed of light.

Mass Drivers fire mass (duh), and, thus, what it fires cannot move faster than the speed of light due to the laws that govern this universe. If it cannot be sent faster through real-space using a warp field, then it won't be able to even catch up with the target, let alone have a chance to hit it (also, without such a thing, the projectile wouldn't even be able to leave the warp field of the launching craft).

Same for the missiles, or rather the torpedoes near the end of the line.

Really, there's not much to keep the mass driver weapon from being deflected by another projectile being shot at it, either, if it supposedly moves at the same or slower speeds as the guided projectiles. It is, in fact, far easier to predict a non-guided projectile's trajectory and thus intercept using another projectile.

I'm just trying to work this out logically, and I'm not sure it's going anywhere.

And about the sonic gunazullathingie.

Sonic propagation is equal to vibration in a medium. Vibration is created thru force transmission at an interface when the force is not constant and is not linear upto 2nd degree. If u push something very slowly and if you increase the force evenly along time there wont be vibration. Vibration is the way a system tries to settle/come to a stop when it has been introduced instant kinetic energy, like hitting something with a club, shooting with a bullet. Vibrating some object at random is just vandalizing it, there is no point, u can punch holes to it with bullets instead. The one and only point of using sonic weaponry/induced vibration to an object is making use of its harmonics that is the all famous "natural frequency" to bring it into the allmighty "Resonation" condition.
To make thing a little more easy to grasp, i need to tell what these shit are. Take a 2 lbs steel ball, tie it to the end of a 3 ft rope, tie the other end of the rope to the ceiling. Now pull the ball to one side a few steps and release it. You have vibration here. The time it takes for the ball to leave your hand and come back to the same point and stop there for a split second is called Period (T) and you can calculate it with this.

If i did not get it wrong when you put our values, the period is 1.931 second. As you see the result it completely independent from the mass you put. Just the ropes lenght and gravity. Period is what it takes the ball to make a trip and back, frequency is the number of back and forth trips it makes in a total of 1 second.

f = 1/1.931 sec = 0.517 (1/sec) = 0.517 Hertz

So this is vibration, and in ideal conditions, there is no friction and such, so the pendulum goes back and fort forever at that specific frequency. (say in space, with near 0 friction very thin frame structure etc) But in real world there is friction, and there is dampening. As long as we work in real world there is a dampening action always. That pendulum will stop moving at some point, thru friction with air, or internal friction of the rope or the nail that fastens the system to the ceiling.
Thus we have natural dampening at normal systems and thus when i hit a tank with a hammer the entire body vibrates and then comes to a stop. The displacement i make at one end, travels thru the body and exits from the other sides. As the pendulum when i hit the tank at the same point again and again (not necesarily with the same force), the sound frequency of the sound will be always the same, if i hit harder, the sound will be louder and it will take more time for the tank to stop vibrating. This special FREQUENCY, that is entirely dependent of the geometry and material structure of the object in question is called NATURAL FREQUENCY. It is a specific attribute of every object, it doesnt change (unless geometry and density changes thru temp change or something)

Now we know nearly everything, lastly we need to know what displacement is. Displacement is the amount of distance the ball in the pendulum travels from resting point when it stops momentarily at one side. When hitting a tank, the displacement is much much lower, thus the frequency is higher (our ears can perceive a specific frequency range, the movement the pendulum does is not audible for us, but it maybe for other beasts like elephants) Free mode vibration is a fairly complex subject (which i failed once in undergrad ) but what we are gonna use is one of the most basic concepts, RESONANCE. When you hit the the ball of the pendulum, it begins to swing with a its natural frequency. If you can keep hitting it just with the same frequency as it is ossilating, the displacements you get at each excitation get on top of each other, and when given enough time you keep the exciting the system at its natural frequencty the "displacement" will lead to infinity (this doesnt happen mostly thru physical reasons, such as the natural frequency changing when geometry changes dramatically).
This means you can rip some structure apart fairly easy if u apply the vibration with the right frequency to it.

This is all that is behind the sonic weaponry actually, because normally sound waves really dont carry much energy and they are far far far from being feasable as weapons of destruction, but just this resonance property makes it feasable.

And how do you induce vibration from afar thru void? Actually as i said even when there is a thick athmosphere in between it wouldnt work quite right with capital ships and such. For them you need to exploit other stuff like other remote force transmission methods like magnetism, or gravity. If there is a high charged particle stream in a ship, you can excite it from a far thru magnetic fields. Or you can use the old gravitons, since they are purely theoretical particles(?) you can ASSUME anything about them in a game Feel free to do that.

Wow, it has been a long post, sorry about the bad formatting, i am completely new to this forum business.

If a ship traveling at warp speed were to drop out of the warp field, it would probably move at FTL speed in normal space, and soon collapse into itself and produce a mini black hole that would become saturated(assuming the theory of singularity saturation is correct) in a short time. Well, that's atleast how I picture it.

My, I messed alot, but Hello Ranafuineluva. Glad to see you enter this discussion we're having here.

But i am an engineer and i would really like to see more sound weapon descriptions

You're an engineer that's pretty interesting actually. I guess you could call be an aspiring engineer, as I'm taking up engineering in college. I completely agree with you about the descriptions. I would also love to see the weapon systems as well as the other techs with more scientificly sound descriptions than they have now.

but even he directly ACCEPTS a certain "Warp Field"

Can you blame me though? It's not like I wanted to, but since the warp drive in game has no real explination as to how it works I kind of had to.

Guys at some point we have to admit we are geeks,

*raises hand* Yup, I admit it. I'm a geek and darn proud of it to.

I know it is getting boring, but this is the conclusion; we must be encouraged to put rules and make assumptions as long as they dont contradict with real physics rightaway and with that extended physics of our extended reality. SO: 1- no pressure/sonic wave propagation in void/vacuum 2- but feel free to introduce anything about hyperdimensional physics, psyonics and such, since their foundations are far from having been set. This is my ideal idea of how science fiction as an active entity should work. I welcome any comments of course.

I agree with you we have to make some assumptions in a sci-fi universe you can't avoid it. Sometimes those assumptions just turn out to be accurate ones in terms of science.

As for your long post about sound, I would pick it apart, but I agree with every thing that you said. I think I covered most of it in this thread as well, including the part about resonance. You have explained in in much more detail though as well as all in one place. It makes for a good referance point for any further discussions about sonics in the future in this thread or elsewhere. Thanks for that. The only thing I said different from you is that I called the Natural Frequency, the Resonance Frequency. Close I guess, but of course in science and engineering accuracy is key. i never did like the concept of gravatons though. Don't know why I just never liked them very much. I think that was the one with no mass and 2 units of spin as well... But anyway I think magnetics would be a better choise for the manipulation of the charged particle stream but thats just me.

Moving on to how the "warp drive" works. To explain the "warp drive" I want to use hyperdimensional physics to explain it, as to add a different point of view to your discussion about but thinking in extra dimensions is making my head hurt right now, so i'll come up with it later.