The Skulltech 1000 Interface Fighter
The goal: produce a dirt-cheap fighter useable for both atmospheric and deep space work. It uses minimal computer and power plant and in order to save money and space it uses vehicle weapons in fixed mounts. It must get within a few hundred meters in space combat to use its weaponry, but if it does and salvoes the whole MRL a starship is going to get a very nasty surprise. If only the cost of the power plant could be lowered it would get really cheap.
Skulltech Interface Fighter
Small spacecraft
Rating: TL-10 construction (can be TL-9 if drop the MRL)
Hull: 10-ton flattened sphere, with airframe enhancements.
Drives: 3-G maneuver drive
Computer: Model 1 avionics, sensors, communication and main.
Power Plant: TL-9 Fusion, 1-EP (0.7 extra)
Fuel: 0.5 tons, 2 weeks
Accommodations: bridge and 2 couches (pilot and gunner)
Weapons: 4 fixed mounted auto-cannons – 1 linked pair forward, 1 linked pair backwards—(using 10-round bursts a linked pair does1d10-1 points of damage against a spacecraft or 5d10 against a vehicle).
1 fixed mounted Heavy MRL mounted forward (if it salvoes all 100 tubes it would do 11d8 damage against a spacecraft or 16d8 damage against a vehicle).
Cargo: 0.7 tons (likely for auto-cannon ammo)
Agility: 7
AC: 18 (10 +1 size +7 agility)
SI: 75 points
Price: 6.1806 Mcr
Construction Details
Item
Hull, airframe, flattened sphere: 0.88 Mcr, +9.5 tons, 0 EP
Bridge: 0.1 Mcr, -4 tons, 0 EP
Computer: 2 Mcr, -1 ton, 0 EP
Power Plant: 4.5Mcr, -1.5 tons, +1 EP
Fuel: 0 Mcr, -0.5 tons, 0 EP
Drive 3-G: 0.4 Mcr, -0.8 tons, -0.3 EP
Couches x2: 0.05Mcr, -1 ton, 0 EP
Autocannons x4 with fixed mounts: 0.406Mcr, -1 tons, 0 EP
Heavy MRL: 0.01 Mcr, 1 ton, 0 EP
The goal: produce a dirt-cheap fighter useable for both atmospheric and deep space work. It uses minimal computer and power plant and in order to save money and space it uses vehicle weapons in fixed mounts. It must get within a few hundred meters in space combat to use its weaponry, but if it does and salvoes the whole MRL a starship is going to get a very nasty surprise. If only the cost of the power plant could be lowered it would get really cheap.
Skulltech Interface Fighter
Small spacecraft
Rating: TL-10 construction (can be TL-9 if drop the MRL)
Hull: 10-ton flattened sphere, with airframe enhancements.
Drives: 3-G maneuver drive
Computer: Model 1 avionics, sensors, communication and main.
Power Plant: TL-9 Fusion, 1-EP (0.7 extra)
Fuel: 0.5 tons, 2 weeks
Accommodations: bridge and 2 couches (pilot and gunner)
Weapons: 4 fixed mounted auto-cannons – 1 linked pair forward, 1 linked pair backwards—(using 10-round bursts a linked pair does1d10-1 points of damage against a spacecraft or 5d10 against a vehicle).
1 fixed mounted Heavy MRL mounted forward (if it salvoes all 100 tubes it would do 11d8 damage against a spacecraft or 16d8 damage against a vehicle).
Cargo: 0.7 tons (likely for auto-cannon ammo)
Agility: 7
AC: 18 (10 +1 size +7 agility)
SI: 75 points
Price: 6.1806 Mcr
Construction Details
Item
Hull, airframe, flattened sphere: 0.88 Mcr, +9.5 tons, 0 EP
Bridge: 0.1 Mcr, -4 tons, 0 EP
Computer: 2 Mcr, -1 ton, 0 EP
Power Plant: 4.5Mcr, -1.5 tons, +1 EP
Fuel: 0 Mcr, -0.5 tons, 0 EP
Drive 3-G: 0.4 Mcr, -0.8 tons, -0.3 EP
Couches x2: 0.05Mcr, -1 ton, 0 EP
Autocannons x4 with fixed mounts: 0.406Mcr, -1 tons, 0 EP
Heavy MRL: 0.01 Mcr, 1 ton, 0 EP
