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Unpublished, non-canon smallcraft design.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	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Canon	Unpublished, fan design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 Heavy Fighter is a combatant smallcraft.

• It is a Paramilitary ship and a Fighter.

Description / Specifications

The Heavy Fighter is a cheap, reliable vessel designed to have improved survivability. 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 Armored Fighter is constructed using a 20 Ton hull built in a generally wedge-shaped configuration. The hull is fully streamlined and has airfoil surfaces, giving good atmospheric performance. The vessel has a sturdy retractable undercarriage, allowing surface landings.
2.	Crew	Total Crew Complement: 2 x1 pilot, x1 weapons/electronics specialist. Accommodations The cockpit contains x2 acceleration couches and is fitted with grav plates and inertial compensators. It has full life support and environmental systems. The vessel does not have an airlock: if the cockpit is opened LS integrity is lost. 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. 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 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 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 Heavy Fighter is: Fixed dual beam lasers. Fixed single missile rack.
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

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.

See also: Ships of the Distant Fringe

References & Contributors / Sources

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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

Fringian Fighter
Type: PA Fighter
Size	20 Tons
Hull Configuration	[[{{{hull}}}]]
Tech Level	TL–9
Engineering
Computer
Jump	J-0
Maneuver	6 G
Armaments
Hardpoints	1
Accommodations
Staterooms	0
Personnel
Crew	1 +1
High/Mid Passengers	0
Payload
Cargo	0 Tons
Fuel tank	0 Tons
Construction
Origin	Distant Fringe
Price
Cost	MCr44.700 (base) MCr35.760 (discounted)
Source
Canon	Unpublished, fan design

TBD

• It is a smallcraft.

Description / Specifications

The Heavy Fighter is an inexpensive, reliable vessel designed to engage enemy units from close range. Similar designs have been in use from the time the Distant Fringe was first settled.

• The vessel is a TL 9 design.

Hull

The Heavy Fighter is constructed using a 20-dTon hull built in a generally wedge-shaped configuration. The hull is fully streamlined. It is defined as a microfighter due to its small size.

• The crew compartment includes internal grav plates and inertial compensators and has full life support facilities.

Engineering

The vessel mounts a maneuver-6 drive and a power plant G, giving performance of 6G acceleration. The ship has an agility rating of 6. There is fuel tankage of 3 dTons, giving the power plant almost 4 weeks duration.

Main Section

The vessel is equipped with a computer model/2 and two acceleration couches.

• The vessel is fitted with communications equipment, an advanced sensor array, full ECM, and an avionics suite.

Crew

The Heavy Fighter requires 1 crew: a pilot. It also includes an additional position for a weapons/electronics specialist.

Weapons

The ship has one hardpoint mounting two beam lasers and a missile launcher.

Subcraft

None.

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 their price to MCr35.760.