This story has basing on a video game- X3: Reunion. This game is a massive single player game set in a space setting. Throughout my stories I use terms that are common knowledge in the game. For those of you unfamiliar with the game, I have created a list of ship designations, and descriptions of missiles and weapon types:

M1: Carrier class ship. Often the largest ships around, they can dock anywhere between 30-60 M3, M4, M5 fighters and sometimes 1-2 M6 Corvettes
M2: Destroyer: Primarly offensive ship with several turreted laser banks
M3: Heavy fighter
M4: Medium Fighter
M5: Light Fighter
M6: Corvette

Missiles:
Hornet Missle-used by M3’s, M6’s, and M2’s these missiles are primarly used against corvettes and heavy fighters. Devastating against M4’s
Thunderbolt: Heat seeking missiles used against fighters
Firestorm Torpedo: Tipped with nuclear warheads. Most powerful non-terran missile
Mosquito: used against drones, very weak missile
Typhoon: swarm missile used against heavy targets