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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ahkileez: [QB] For those of you that asked, here are a short set of specs for her, based on the way we wrote specs for ships over at [URL=http://techspecs.acalltoduty.com]the ACTD TechSpecs website.[/URL] SHURIKEN STARFIGHTER/INTERCEPTOR General Overview: In an era of conflicts and a return to Starfleet's defense-oriented roots, the need for more task-specific materiel has grown. New policies in deployment and fleet configuration have given rise to new tactics and resurrection of old ones. In this growing need and shrinking time, the Shuriken Starfighter/Interceptor was developed to fill a niche. Deployment and development of fighters was never a large undertaking with Starfleet, most fighters sharing their design history with other small, multi-purpose vehicles. While these proved effective, the limitations of sharing tasks became apparent over time and a call for a more streamlined, purpose-built spaceframe was proposed and approved with development turned over to the Advanced Starship Design Bureau and subsidiaries. Development of the Shuriken Starfighter/Interceptor began in 2371 under the hands of Colonel C.T. Joseph. Colonel Joseph headed up the ASDB's Pandora Program, specializing in unusual projects and technology proofing. From the beginning, the Shuriken was to be a departure from the hand-me-down philosophy that pervaded Starfleet small craft design. While several new 'small' technologies had recently been developed and were utilized in the Shuriken, her main body was built from the ground up, keeping careful eye on the purpose of the craft. It's secondary role as a support and escort fighter mounted it with heavier weaponry than is normally found on a craft of its size. Experimentalists developed a parasitic energy feedback system that allowed the Shuriken to mount Pulse Phaser Cannons for heavy blows. Other fighters were designed to carry out similar roles from sublight speeds and were already in development and construction, so the Pandora team concentrated on fitting the fighter with a workable and defensible warp drive system that wouldn't require the heavy radiation shielding and weight involved with internal-mount nacelles, nor have the additional drag and vulnerabilities of pylon-mounted nacelles. Missile and Torpedo systems developed for other craft and ground-based defense armament were modified and redesigned to be carried aboard mid-sized fighter craft. The Shuriken's role as an interceptor brought about a durable mixed-fuel reactor that services both the high-speed impulse drives and the warp drive. This multi-ringed reactor produces more power per kilogram of weight than a reactor twice its size. The result is ample power for the ship's engines and weapons systems. This power level, however, comes with a price in fuel efficiency and limits the ship's range. Extreme long-distance runs are simply out of the ship's realm of performance, and require a carrier of some sort. With the redevelopment of the Akira Class underway elsewhere in ASDB's complexes, the Shuriken used the Akira Class as a model for carrier-configuration and the Akira still serves as the Shuriken's primary carrier even though other vessels and stations have been modified for their use. Under fifteen meters long and less than ten wide, the Shuriken is easily carried aboard most cruisers. A single pilot is assigned to each Starfighter, with a sophisticated cockpit display and HUD system arming him or her with all the information available to the craft and a tactile force-controlled yoke. Compact sensor packs forward of the cockpit provide primary targeting, augmented by the fighter's deflector/emitter dish located directly below the cockpit on the underside of the craft. Additional sensors, communications palettes, and shield emitter grids are spread out around the craft's superstructure. Aft of the cockpit lies the compressed computer core and life support system developed for use aboard the Type-11 Long Range Shuttlecraft and utilizing the Danube's more robust core architecture. The majority of the remaining aft space is taken up by the dual reactors, high-compression impulse drives, M/ARA and shield generators. The Shuriken's internal drop bays extend a meter and a half internally, allowing for heavy-weapons payloads or even additional fuel pods for longer-range flights to be carried. The Shuriken Starfighter/Interceptor is built to out fly, outrun, and out gun anything in it's class, purpose built to extend the available strengths of it's carrier or base. DIMENSIONS Crew: 1 Pilot Overall Length: 12.4 meters Overall Height: 5 meters Beam (Wings Extended): 9.5 meters Beam (Folded): 5.75 meters PERFORMANCE Standard Impulse Configuration: .25c Attack/Interception Configuration: .45c Cruise Warp: Warp 4.5 for 6 hours Max Warp: Warp 6 for 1 hour ARMAMENT 3 - Type-VII Phaser Arrays 2 - Type-II-F Pulse Phaser Cannons 2 - Type-III Micro-Photon Torpedo Launchers (10pcs/ea.) 4 - Type-XIX-A Quicksilver Photon Missiles 2 - Type XXVII Perseus Warp-sustainable High-yield Attack Munition (WHAM) Torpedoes in drop bays. Note: Optional configurations include two additional WHAM Torpedoes on external hard points in place of Missiles, or four Quicksilver missiles in drop bays in place of torpedoes. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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