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Approved Starship DAS "Spore" Starfighter - Starfighter Configuration

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Starfighter configuration DAS "Spore" Starfighter flying through space...

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
PRODUCTION INFORMATION

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
  • Classification: Starfighter
  • Length: 6m
  • Width: 3m
  • Height: 3m
  • Armament: Average (Four Laser Cannons, Two Concussion Missile Launchers [4 Concussion Missiles Each])
  • Defenses: Average (Quadranium Steel Hull, Deflector Shield)
  • Squadron Count: High: 19 (Very Small size)
  • Maneuverability Rating: Moderate (maneuvering thrusters)
  • Speed Rating: Moderate (good engines)
  • Hyperdrive Class: N/a
STANDARD FEATURES
  • Quadranium Hull
  • Droid brain
  • Navigation system
  • Targeting systems
  • Seeker Mine friendly transponder code

ADVANCED SYSTEMS
  • No advanced systems
Strengths:
  • Highly Modular - Each ship is essentially the same as the Interceptor, except with extra ship attached to it by the Girth of Gluttony, equipped to modify the DAS Starfighter mid-battle. It can serve a variety of roles in a relatively short period of time, starting as an starfighter with its modest armament, serve most of the battle as a Defense Platform, and finish the battle as a bomber.
  • Seeker Mine Transponder Codes - Transmitting these codes, this vessel will not be targeted by friendly Seeker Mines, allowing it to traverse the defensive aura of Defense Platforms, giving the other configurations of the DAS Starfighter cover to pass through unharmed that prevents enemy pursuit.
Weaknesses:
  • No Hyperdrive - If the Girth of Gluttony ever needs to retreat, all ships deployed will immediately be left for dead, as there is no way for any of the ships to jump to Hyperspace. Additionally, it is a strictly space-borne craft, and is unable to enter atmosphere.

Description: The Girth of Gluttony was at its core, more of an experiment than it was a true warship. It was the dream of a paranoid Emperor who wanted a sanctuary that could last on its own forever, and overwhelm any threat to him with a surprisingly volatile and unpredictable force to gain the upper hand. If you didn't know what your enemy could field, it became more difficult to counter it, and that was the strategy in the design of the Droid Adaptive Swarm Starfighter.

With multiple form-factors with vastly different roles, and a ship that could change them relatively quickly on the fly, one became unlikely to see the same fleet composition twice, and what worked once to counter it may not counter it a second time. With multiple chassis that could be added on top of old ones, or easily removed, the DAS Starfighter is the ultimate proprietary starship, allowing a fleet full of them to change and adapt on the fly as the needs of a battle changes.

If the enemy is fielding formidable capital ships with little starfighter compliment, there will be many more bombers than is typical with fewer escorts. If the enemy fields a great deal of starfighters or powerful starfighter squadrons, more starfighters, interceptors, and defense platforms will be present. Perhaps the enemy started out with a healthy compliment of starfighters, which dwindled as time went on, allowing the bulk of the DAS Starfighter forces to take the opportunity to risk more bombers to take out the bigger fish. Or perhaps the Girth of Gluttony is looking to retreat from a battle but is not yet ready to withdraw, it could "hunker down" with a great number of Defense Platforms and hopefully mitigate any daring pilots from approaching for risk of overwhelming destruction.

The changes of course, despite their easier modularity, still take some amount of time, which may take longer if a starfighter docks with considerable damage. Such damage may penetrate through multiple chassis types, and would be forced scrap nearly all of them before applying a new desired chassis type. Since this is subject to time, not all starfighters can be deployed at once all of the time, and their numbers may be reduced due to a need for repairs or chassis changes, or by casualties that could not make it back to a hangar. The loss of casualties is slightly mitigate by the Girth of Gluttony's large host of Tractor Beams dragging debris into its cargo holds for molecular processing, but on any other vessel without similar support it may struggle to field a full compliment for long.

The DAS Starfighters are more known more colloquially as "Spores", considering their appearance flooding out of the Girth of Gluttony's spherical hull and spreading out around it like a web of stellar mycellium.


Author's Notes:
  • This is not "exactly" a new ship. This submission is intended to be an update to the original submission found here: starwarsrp.net/topic/18616-spore-class-droid-starfighter/. I've kept to the spirit of the submission, but I have taken some major liberty to make changes to this that I did not like about the original, and added some unique changes that make the design more useful.
  • I've added some pretty unique and likely unprecedented features to this modular starfighter, so I understand completely if work needs to be done to acquire them, though I do think this is fairly balanced on its own with the drawbacks I've created.
 
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