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Does anybody have schematics of the K-wing and T-wing starfighters?
Oh speaking of fan made starfighters, you should check out the Q-wing starfighter. I would post a picture of it, but the search engine I normally use is f**ked up right now.
There is no reason why I'm saying this, but the list ships used by the rebellion that actually exists in the Star Wars universe (via comics, books, ect. ect.) is as follows:
A-wing B-wing E-wing T-wing K-wing X-wing Y-wing and that's it. Although z-95 headhunters where used quite frequently in the game Tie Fighter. (which I stillplay to this day! ) They were a bug the ass. But the A-wing's are worse. As a matter of fact I can write a brief summery about each ship. (Now if this does not tell you I need a life I don't know what will! )
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Personally I'd like very much for you to write a summary about each ship - I've been looking for someone else's opinion about the ships of Star Wars for some time now. What about the new ships in The New Jedi Order series - one replaced the Victory Star Destroyer, and another (Called the Ranger?) took the role of the Lancer Frigate. So please send your comments (and any other pictures)!
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If the game is good, there is no reason not to play it. Hey I still play Warcraft and enjoy it somewhat.
Don't feel bad, I can write a long history on Star Wars ships as with Star Trek ships. I also can explain to how power levels work in Dragonballz and what a Guyver is great detail. To make it worse, I can tell you the exact date of any 20th century military battle, I also can tell you what would happen exactly if you introduce a certain element. All this and I'm only 17 years old...
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Akb1979: Um, the Victory class was succeeded by the Imperator/Imperial class, the standard SD for Ep IV, V and VI. This was before ANH, but they kept the Victory class ships nontheless.
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Please pardon my spelling. I'm not a very good speller. Also, some of my sources for information are a bit contradictory to each other. For example a accoding to the game X-wing, the B-wing carrys a standard load of 12 proton torpedos, but in Star Wars: The Ultimate Guide to Vhicles and Vessels, the B-wing carrys a standard load of 8 torpedos. So please forgive me if the info isn't quite right in some parts.
A-Wing starfighter:
Weapons: 2 Laser cannons, and 2 cuncussion missle launchers (with 6 cuncussion missles each) Shields strength: 50 SBD Hull strength: 15 RU Top speed: 120 MGLT Notes: The A-wing starfighter is the rebellion's fastest and most manuverable fighter. It's primary use is for hit and fade assults. The A-wing's shield stregth is fair, but it's hull is vary fragile. This makes even the most minor hit to an unshielded A-wing potentally fatal, so a pilot has to use the ships speed and agility to avoid enemy fire as much as possible. One of the most famous manuevers for the A-wing is called the "A-wing slash" What happens is that a fleet of rebel starfighters would engage an enemy capital ship. Once the capital ship launches it's fighters for protection the X-wing and Y-wing in the fleet will divert the Emperial fighter's attention while the A-wings move in and tear the capital sip appart.
B-wing starfighter.
Weapons: 3 Laser cannons, 3 Ion cannons, and 2 proton torpedo launchers (with 6 proton torpedos each) Shield strength: 120 SBD Hull strength: 60 RU Top speed: 90 MGLT Notes: The B-wing starfighter is the rebellion's heavy bomber which is very well armed and very tough. The rebellion needed a cheap way of inflicting a heavy amount of damage to the Imperial's capital ships without putting their prized Mon Calimari crusers in the line of fire. What they came up with is the B-wing starfighter, developed by, then, Commander Akbar. It's 12 proton torpedos can pack a very heavy punch towards a capital ship and it's heavy shields and armor can withstand huge amounts of punishment. When it comes to the B-wings fire power, it is, in fact, very customizable. Also, another option for the B-wing is to have a large ammo clip installed on the ship. This clip will increase the amount of proton torpedos the B-wing can fire from 12 to 24 proton torpedos. However, this ammo clip also severely reduces manuverablity. While not the fastest ship you can incounter, the B-wing still is a very dangerous ship.
E-wing starfighter
Weapons: 3 Laser cannons, and 2 Proton torpedo launcher (with 8 proton torpedos each) Shield strength: 100??? SBU Hull strength: 50??? RU Top speed: 105??? MGLT Notes: The E-wing starfighter is the most advanced ship the Rebellion has. Its 16 proton torpedos can pack an even larger punch than the B-wing's 12. One drawback is that The E-wing can't take quite as much punishment as the B-wing, but it is faster and more manuverable than the B-wing. This gives battle tacticians another option when the B-wing is too slow for a heavy bombing mission. Due to the fact that the E-wing's computer systems are far too advanced for a standard R2 droid,(Like X, and Y-wings, E-wings need astromech plug-ins)the brand new R7 droid is the only atromech droid that can handle the E-wings advanced electronics.
K-wing starfighter
Weapons: 18 hardpoints with which numerous types of weaponry can be installed. Shield strength: 100 SBD Hull strength: ?? RU Top speed: 140?? MGLT Notes: The K-wing "starfighter" is probably the most unusal starfighter the Rebellion has. The K-wing starfighter is designed to take out military istallations located on the surface of planets.(Even though the rebellion's X, E, and Y-wing starfighters are capable of doing this, none of them work well in a heavy atmosphere and large gravity wells.) Therefor it is designed with very large lift-producing wings, 3 very large engines for thrust, and multiple repulsor-lift generators. All of these features are needed for the K-wing to handle heavy atmospheres and large gravity wells. The K-wing also features 2 shield generators and very heavy armor. Unfortunatly other than any anti-starfighter missles the K-wing MIGHT be carrying, it doesn't have any weapons to deal with enemy starfighters. This is why the K-wing has such heavy shielding and armor. It is prefered that other starfighters capable with dealing with Ties escort K-wings with a 1 to 1 ratio, at the very minimum the K-wing sould get a 2 to 1 escorting ratio. Another draw back is that the K-wing doesn't have a hyper drive. A rebellion capital ship has to serve as home base for K-wing starfighters. Much like our real-life fighter jets, the K-wing has 18 hardpoints with which technians can install any varaity of missles, bombs, and torpedos. However, once 18 missles or torpedos run out, it's time for the K-wing to leave. The K-wing can also be used in space to deliver a nasty surprise to imperial capital ships. The K-wing is a bit faster than the X-wing however, it is far less manuverable. The K-wing also has a crew of two poeple; One pilot, and one weapons specialist.
T-wing starfighter
Weapons: 2 Laser cannons (Some modified T-wings also have 2 cuncussion missle lauchers with 3 missles each.) Shield strength: 20 SBD Hull strength: 15 RU Top speed: 110 MGLT Notes: The T-wing starfighter is the weakest starfighter the rebellion has at their disposel. Sending anyone into battle in a T-wing would almost be suicide, and the reasons for this is obvious. Not only does the T-wing starfighter have no more than 2 laser cannons for weapons, it's shields and hull are even more fragile than that of an A-wing starfighter. It's only plus side is its top speed, which measures up to be 110 MGLT. This makes it as fast as a Tie Interceptor and it also makes it the pilots only hope to come out of battle alive. The E-wing starfighter also goes by the nicknames "the poor man's A-wing" and "the flying coffen."
X-wing starfighter.
Weapons: 4 laser cannons, and 2 proton torpedo launchers (with 3 proton torpedos each) Shield strength: 50 SBD Hull strength: 20 RU Top speed: 100 MGLT Notes: The X-wing starfighter is the primary (and most famous) space surpiriority fighter used by the Rebellion. It's claim to fame was its achievement of destroying the first Death Star over the planet of Yavin with out any help from Rebellion capital ships. The X-wings speed and manuverability makes it perfect for dogfighting with other fighters. A quality which can be VERY handy to have if your on an escorting mission. With the X-wing's 50 SBD shields and 20 Ru hull, the X-wing can take an okay amount of damage, but still not as much as the Rebelion's B and Y-wings.
Y-wing starfighter
Weapons: 2 Laser cannons, 2 Ion cannons, and 2 Proton torpedo launchers (with 4 proton torpedos each) Shield strength: 75 SBD Hull strength: 40 RU Top speed: 80 MGLT Notes: The Y-wing, before the introduction of the X-wing starfighter, was the Rebelion's flagship starfighter. It's official designation is that of a medium bomber with it's 8 proton torpedos. Although very durable the Y-wing's limitations were made very clear when only 1 out of 24 Y-wings came back from The Battle of Yavin dispite it's surpirior durability compared to the X-wing. One reason for this is that the Y-wing starfighter is very slow by starfighter standards and it's not very manuverable. Those limitations can give Tie Fighters an advantage in a dogfight.
And that's it. NOW SCRAM!
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Matrix - are you my mate Alastair by any chance as he can remember such stuff as you have mentioned.
Nimrod - erm yes I knew that. I was talking about the ship that Gavin was serving on during the initial battles against the new aliens, the Yuuzhan Vong - how the hell is that pronounced?
It was stated to be just a bit shorter than the old Vic, and had launch bays up AND down (Page 59 of Dark Tide I).
So, information (i.e. pics and specs, or link ) on the following would be VERY much appreciated;
1) The new Mon Calamari battle cruiser 'Mediator' (page 3 of Vector Prime) 2) The 'Jade Sabre' 3) The Mon Calamari Star Defender (page 77 of Vector Prime) 4) The Ranger-class Gunships (numerous pages in Vector Prime) and finally (for now) 5) The Bothan Assault Cruiser 'Ralroost'
If this helps, this site is technically advanced that puts some hardcore Trekkies to shame in terms of explaining everything. http://www.theforce.net/swtc/
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Yes, I've already been to that site. They person responsible for it is soooooooooo devoted to it and, according to my friends, sadder than me! Hehe!
This person has really gone into SERIOUS depth about measurements - using this picture and that picture oh and that picture over there . . . then there's this image here and this one, and this one . . .
Must be unemployed, or was at the time. Still, a bloody brilliant and useful site - 10/10.
What I mean by Technically advanced that he uses alot of measuments on things and can get an accurate measurement on ships. He also if there is a slight difference in starship design such as a different bridge, he'll call it a totally different ship than the first one. In comic books where the artist drew a Imperial class ship funny he'll call that a different design too even though it was meant to be a Imperial class starship.
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If you ever feel you don't get enough feedback, remember that you can read a lot of other summaries and dispositions here that other people put down a lot of energy in, without expecting any praise, just that people add to the conversation. It can be like a guy buying you a beer and not taking any money in return because he knows you'll buy him a beer back later.
Of course, praise is good too.
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) They were a bug the ass. But the A-wing's are worse. As a matter of fact I can write a brief summery about each ship. (Now if this does not tell you I need a life I don't know what will! 
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