Area Effect Weapons | Star Frontiers

I've tried to search for this topic, but only found one vague reference in the Forums.

Zebulon’s Guide to the Frontier added information
about weapons that inflict damage over a wide area. Larger explosives have an
immediate and a secondary blast area. I
want to convert this idea of a secondary blast radius over to the Alpha
Dawn combat system, but I was wondering if anyone has already done
this.Area effect weapons would include:<ul><li>All grenades</li><li>Explosives including artillery shells (such as the Sathar automatic cannon from the Volturnus modules), TD-19 and TD-20 packs, specialized gyrojet ammuntion (from a Star Frontiersman magazine issue).</li><li>Missiles including rocket launchers and recoilless rifles</li><li>Mines</li><li>Bombs, including those dropped from aircraft</li></ul>

<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal">Immediate and Secondary Blast Areas

When high
explosives detonate, the blast radius listed on the Weapons Table is the immediate
blast area. Every character, robot, vehicle, structure or other item within
that area will take damage. Roll individually and then determine what effect
armor, defensive shields and other cover may alter the result.

If the
blast occurs in the open – and it is the result of TD-19 packs, type I through
III missiles or artillery rounds – there is a secondary blast area which is
equal to 1.5 times the radius of the immediate blast area.

For
example, if the immediate blast area has a radius of 15 meters, the secondary
blast radius extends out another 7.5 meters. Anyone (including robots) from 15 to
22.5 meters from the detonation site must pass a Reaction Speed check.
Characters who fail the check must roll on the resolution table below.

___. Roll
for damage, but divide the result by 10. Also, the character is stunned for
1d10 turns.

___. Roll for damage,
but divide the result by 4. The character is stunned for 1d10 turns. Now, my resolution table is incomplete so far because I'm not sure if I should base it on a 1d10 roll or a percentage roll. Then, what should the percentages be for "no effect," "stunned for 1 turn," etc. If a missile or dropped bomb misses the target, I could reference the grenade bounce chart, but how far off should such a miss be?

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