Revenant class Light Fighter

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Light Fighter
Imperial Sunburst-Sun-IISS-Traveller.gif
Unpublished, non-canon smallcraft design.
Type: PL Light fighter
Size 7 Tons
Hull Configuration [[Needle 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Canon Unpublished, fan design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.

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

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. [1]

Basic Ship Characteristics [2]
No. Category Remarks
1. Tonnage The Light Fighter is constructed using a 7 Ton hull built in a generally needle-shaped configuration. The hull is fully streamlined and has airfoil surfaces, giving excellent atmospheric performance.
2. Crew Total Crew Complement: 1
  • x1 pilot.

Accommodations

The cockpit contains an acceleration Couch and control equipment and is fitted with grav plates and inertial compensators. It has full life support and environmental systems.

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 vessel is fitted with a Model/2 computer: no backup computer is installed.
5. Hardpoints x1 hardpoint.
6. Armament The normal weapons fit-out for a Light Fighter is:

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.
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 & Background (Dossier)

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, 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.

Class Naming Practice/s & Peculiarities

No information yet available.

Selected Variant Types & Classes

Smallcraft - Fighter:

  1. Type PL class Light Fighter
    1. Fringian Light Fighter

Image Repository

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