Aethon class Light Fighter

Heavy Fighter
Unpublished, non-canon smallcraft design.
Type: PH Heavy fighter
Size	20 Tons
Hull Configuration	[[Wedge Hull]]
Streamlining	Streamlined Hull
Tech Level	TL–9
Engineering
Computer	2
Jump	J-0
Maneuver	6 G
Armaments
Hardpoints	1
Accommodations
Staterooms	0
Personnel
Crew	2
Officers	2
High/Mid Passengers	0
Payload
Cargo	0 Tons
Fuel tank	0 Tons
Construction
Origin	Distant Fringe
Year Operational	None
Price
Cost	MCr44.700 (base) MCr35.760 (discounted)
Architect fee	MCrAde Stewart
Statistics
Quick Ship Profile	PH-2A60
Images
Blueprint	No
Illustration	No
Source
Canon	Unpublished, fan design
Era	1105
Reference	Ade Alagoric Stewart
Starships are designed with the Classic Traveller format, using High Guard.

The Heavy Fighter is a combatant smallcraft.

• It is a paramilitary ship and a fighter.
• Please also see AAB article: Ships of the Distant Fringe.

Description (Specifications)

The Heavy Fighter is a reliable vessel designed to mount energy weapons as its primary armament. Similar designs have been in use from the time the Distant Fringe was first settled.

• The vessel is a TL-9 design.

Image Repository

A Firebolt class Heavy Fighter (top) and an Aethon class Heavy Fighter (bottom).

Basic Ship Characteristics

Following the Imperial Navy and IISS Universal Ship Profile and data, additional information is presented in the format shown here. The small craft factor indicates the number of squadrons (of ten craft) carried on the ship. Tonnage on the universal ship profile is shown in kilotons (thousands of tons) when necessary.

Basic Ship Characteristics

No.	Category	Remarks
1.	Tonnage	The Heavy Fighter is constructed using a 20 dTon hull built in a generally wedge-shaped configuration. The hull is fully streamlined and has airfoil surfaces, giving good atmospheric performance. Individual sections of the ship are divided into sealed compartments. The vessel has a sturdy retractable landing legs, allowing surface landings.
2.	Crew	Total Crew Complement: 2 x1 pilot, x1 weapons/electronics specialist. Accommodations The cockpit is the only crew-accessible part of the ship: it is fitted with grav plates and inertial compensators. The vessel has full life support and environmental systems. The craft does not have an airlock: if the cockpit is opened life support integrity is lost. There are monitoring and security systems throughout the vessel. There are x2 small emergency lockers.
3.	Performance	The vessel mounts a Maneuver-6 drive and a Power Plant-16, giving performance of 6-G acceleration and generating 3.6 Energy Points. The ship has an agility rating of 6. The internal fuel tankage is sufficient to give the power plant approximately 4 weeks duration. The engineering section is controlled from the cockpit. Access to the machinery can be gained via a sealable hatch.
4.	Electronics	The cockpit contains x2 acceleration couches and control equipment. The vessel is fitted with a Model/2 Computer: no backup computer is installed. The vessel is fitted with communications equipment, a standard sensor array, and has an Avionics suite. It is equipped with a sophisticated ECM package and Jamming Equipment. It has a transponder unit that can be deactivated on command.
5.	Hardpoints	x1 hardpoint.
6.	Armament	The normal weapons fit-out for a Heavy Fighter is: Fixed dual beam lasers. Fixed single missile rack. The missile rack mounts x3 standard Anti-Shipping Missiles.
7.	Defenses	The hull is unarmored. The vessel is not fitted with screens or other passive defensive systems.
8.	Craft	The vessel carries no subcraft.
9.	Fuel Treatment	The vessel has internal fuel tankage of 3 Tons. The hull is fitted with fuel scoops. The vessel is not equipped with fuel purification equipment.
10.	Cost	The basic cost of the vessel is MCr44.700. The ship is a standard design. Detailed architectural plans are widely available and no design fee is chargeable. If multiple examples of the design are ordered all of the ships in the production run qualify for a 20% discount, which reduces the price of each unit to MCr35.760.
11.	Construction Time	24 weeks (5.5 months) as standard. Build times can be reduced by mass production and the efficiencies such processes generate, by increased financing, and by allotting additional yard resources and facilities to the construction contract.
12.	Comments	The vessel has no internal cargo capacity.

History & Background (Dossier)

An ubiquitous design used throughout the Distant Fringe, the Heavy Fighter is durable and reliable. The design is representative and a large number of variants exist, particularly with regard to the allotted weapons systems and onboard electronics. Despite their status as space fighters, designs of this type have airframe features, augmenting their handling characteristics within planetary atmospheres.

Class Naming Practice/s & Peculiarities

Individual designs of Heavy Fighter are named by the companies that produce them but these organizations generally draw on traditional naming protocols.

Selected Variant Types & Classes

Smallcraft - Fighter:

1. Type FH class Heavy Fighter
   1. Bulwark class Heavy Fighter
   2. Esther class Heavy Fighter

References & Contributors (Sources)

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• Marc Miller, Frank Chadwick, John Harshman. High Guard (Game Designers Workshop, 1980), 20-37. (Design Sequence Used)
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master Scout Emeritus Adie Alegoric Stewart of the IISS
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science