Revenant class Light Fighter

Light Fighter
Unpublished, non-canon smallcraft design.
Type: PL Light fighter
Size	7 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	1
Officers	1
High/Mid Passengers	0
Payload
Cargo	0 Tons
Fuel tank	0 Tons
Construction
Origin	Distant Fringe
Year Operational	None
Price
Cost	MCr16.615 (base) MCr13.292 (discounted)
Architect fee	MCrAde Stewart
Statistics
Quick Ship Profile	Smallcraft
Images
Blueprint	No
Illustration	No
Source
Canon	Unpublished, fan design
Era	1105
Reference	-
Starships are designed with the Classic Traveller format, using High Guard.

The Light Fighter is a combatant smallcraft.

• It is a Paramilitary ship and a Fighter.

Description / Specifications

The Light Fighter is a cheap, reliable vessel designed to precisely engage enemy units. Similar designs have been in use from the time the Distant Fringe was first settled. It is defined as a microfighter due to its small size.

• The vessel is a TL-9 design.

Basic Ship Characteristics

No.	Category	Remarks
1.	Tonnage	The Light Fighter is constructed using a 7 Ton hull built in a generally wedge-shaped configuration. The hull is fully streamlined, giving excellent atmospheric performance. The vessel has a sturdy retractable undercarriage, allowing surface landings.
2.	Crew	x1 personnel. x1 pilot. Accommodations The cockpit is fitted with grav plates and inertial compensators and has full life support and environmental systems. The vessel does not have an airlock: if the cockpit is opened LS integrity is lost. There is a small emergency locker.
3.	Performance	The vessel mounts a Maneuver-6 drive and a Power Plant-6, giving performance of 6-G acceleration. The ship has an agility rating of 6. The internal fuel tankage is sufficient to give the power plant 9 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 an acceleration couch and is fitted with a Model/2 computer: no backup computer is installed. The vessel is fitted with communications equipment, an advanced sensor array, and has an Avionics suite. It has a transponder unit that can be deactivated on command. It is equipped with a sophisticated ECM package.
5.	Hardpoints	x1 hardpoint.
6.	Armament	The normal weapons fit-out for a Light Fighter is: Fixed triple missile racks. The Light Fighter is equipped with an Auto-Cannon in a fixed forward-facing mount. The Auto-Cannon has a ROF of 200 rounds per minute: the vessel carries 400 rounds of ammunition. The weapon is ineffective against spacecraft or starships but can be used to strafe light targets. It is sometimes referred to as a "frustration weapon", serving to give the pilot a means of striking at a threat, however ineffectively, and thus providing them with a psychological release.
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 1 Ton. 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 MCr16.615. 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 MCr13.292.
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

An ubiquitous design used throughout the Distant Fringe, the Light Fighter is cheap, 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, many designs of this type have airframe features, augmenting their handling characteristics within planetary atmospheres.

These craft are generally limited when trying to attack capital ships: the difference in computational power is a serious limitation in scoring hits. The agility demands that missiles are carried and there is no room for larger computers. The lack of big computers does, however, help help keep the cost per unit relatively low. These craft excel at tackling other fighters of their ilk and the interdiction of merchant traffic. They can operate from small hidden bases and they can dominate the COACC environment as dual environment combatants. The autocannon allows limited tank busting, versus enemy army and marine vehicles, conserving the more expensive missiles for dogfighting.

See also: Ships of the Distant Fringe

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• CT Book 5 "High Guard", GDW, 1980.
• 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
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis), Captain, and Lead Naval Architect Ronald B. Kline, Jr. of the Imperial Navy