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Intent: To create a standard starfighter for use by anyone outside of a military.
Manufacturer: Silk Holdings
Model: Callan-class fighter
Affiliation: Silk Holdings/Independent
Modularity: Yes
Production: Mass-Produced
Material: Durasteel
Classification: Starfighter
Role: General-Purpose, Space Superiority
Height: 3.4 metres
Width: 7.7 metres
Length: 12.9 metres
Power Core Generator/Reactor: Solar Ionization Reactor
Hyperdrive Rating: Class 2.0
Crew: 1 pilot + astromech droid
Armaments: 2x heavy laser cannon; 2x proton torpedo launcher (3 rounds)
Non-Combative Attachments: Shielding, sensor/navigation/targeting package, hyperdrive
Passenger Capacity: N/A
Cargo Capacity: 100 kg
Consumables: 1 week
Sublight Speed and Maneuverability: Class 2
The Callan-class starfighter is one of the new products that Silk Holdings has produced under its freelance starship design production program; its designer, one Ven Callan, submitted it to the new company in the hopes of finding a producer for his design that could get it out there. Approved by the three primary owners of Silk Holdings, they managed to get the design out of not only their factories, but other small, independent producers, leased out as a cheap and efficient fighter design.
The Callan is built using simple, easily-found parts, and designed in a similar vein to the Z-95 of old times - simple, rugged, holding standard armaments, highly durable, and forgiving on new pilots. It's not uncommon to see the Callan in the hands of pirates or other privateers, given their low cost and ease of access. Silk Holdings uses this fighter for escort work given that they had the design before everybody else, as well as the fact that hirelings can learn and use the fighter easily. An astromech droid socket is built into the rear hump with a sliding hatch directly behind the cockpit, to protect it in-flight. Naturally, it's not quite on the same level of most military craft in terms of efficiency, such as the standard X-wing, but it certainly does the job it is designed to.