VFX: Missile redirection and escort

[EightRice]

Surface drones handling cruise missiles and anti-ship missiles.

Tactics (least aggression):

1. Interference patterns

   • Electromagnetic noise scrambles guidance
   • Missiles redirect toward empty ocean
   • Some splash harmlessly, others curve upward, exhaust fuel, glide down to float

2. Escort/capture

   • Drones attach to control surfaces
   • Not fighting, but guiding
   • Redirect thrust vectors
   • Ease missiles into gentle curves away from Seven
   • Toward safe splashdown zones

3. Launch interception (later waves)

   • Meet missiles at launch before they clear the rail
   • Escort upward, ease down to float on surface

Key visual: 'Nothing was destroyed. Everything was redirected.'

Missiles bobbing on the surface like oversized buoys, warheads intact, threat undone without violence.

Reference: autonet_story_underwater_edit.md lines 317-325