Sala'dine
Admiral of the Ghost Fleet
- Intent: To make an advanced stealth version of the K-Wing.
- Image Source: BTL-S8 K-wing assault starfighter edited by Sor-Jan Xantha
- Canon Link: N/A
- Primary Source:
BTL-S8 K-wing assault starfighter
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
- Manufacturer: Saotome Foundry
- Affiliation: Company Name(s) (Sasori and Subsidiaries)
- Model: Stealth K-Wing
- Production: Semi-Unique
- Material:
Saotome Polymer (outer hull covering) - Saotome Rill Frame (frame)
- Seimei Afterglow Panels (canopy)
- Saotome Defensive Lattice (outer hull)
- Sasori Nnth (hull plating)
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
- Classification: Super Heavy Bomber
- Length: 50 meters
- Width: 50 meters
- Height: 20 meters
- Armament: Extreme
6x InterchangableLaser/Ion Cannon (wing mounted) - 2x Ion Encumbrance Package (co-pilot)
- 1x Saotome Bomblet Generator (underside mounted)
- 8x Flex Tube launchers (forward facing wing mounted)
- 4x Connor Net Launcher (net gunner mounted)
- 2x Shock Net Variant (net gunner mounted)
- 8x S-15 diamond boron missile (k strut mounted)
[*]Defenses: Moderate
- Saotome P.L.O.T. Shields Light Version
Saotome Back Up System - Saotome Shield Booster
- Saotome Recharger
[*]Saotome Solar Shielding:
[*]Saotome Hydro Shielding:
[*]Squadron Count: None: 1
[*]Maneuverability Rating:
- Low (normal)
- Very Low (with booster)
[*]Speed Rating: Saotome Whammy Drive
- Low (normal)
- Moderate (with booster)
[*]Hyperdrive Class: Saotome Hyperdrive
- Average: 1
STANDARD FEATURES
- Engine Suite:
- Systems Suite:
- Communications Suite:
- Computer Suite:
- Active Sensors Suite:
- Passive Sensors Suite:
- Living Module
- Medical Module
- Saotome Circuits
- Saotome Recovery Upgrade
- Saotome Tractor/Pressor Upgrade
- Saotome Biocomputer
- Astromech Socket
- "Screamer" Active Jammer
- Executive Suite
- Saotome Advanced Tracking System
- Saotome Ember Scanner and Slicer Unit
- Saotome Nutaki System
- Saotome Stealth Package
- TibannaX Propolsion
- Maas Upgrade
- Nightshadow (hull coating)
Strengths:
- Overly Engineered: Designed by the Second Fleet as a beast compared to some of their other fighters. The massive size is used to house weapons specificaly a lot of weapons and its own ability to use the stealth systems. The Inu is meant to be a guard dog type fighter, setting up in a specific area and using a chokepoint as opposed to dogfighting. Using connor nets in a pod section with two chiss shock nets the largest designed version of the nets. THe special k strut of the ship houses an advanced boron missile for going after fighter formations.
- Heavy Weapons: Designed to be a beast and its weapons reflect that. The wings being lined with forward mounted lasers and launchers to saturate the area in front of it.
- ON Board Systems: Designed with a handful of Sasori and Saotome systems to improve the performance of the ship and make it a more advanced fighter.
Astromech Socket: Designed for a personal or military issue astromech to have it in the ship to handle small repairs and systems. Regulate the power or detect problems. - "Screamer" Active Jammer: Designed to disguise the ship and disrupt homing actions taken against the fighter. Countered by military grade scanners and sensor packages.
- Vanish 2 military sensor masking system: Cheaper then an actual cloaking device and best used to conceal and mask the ship from sensors.
- Executive Suite: Providing small scale repair systems for the astromech to work with and a containment shield within the fighter in case of breaches.
- Saotome Advanced Tracking System: An advanced droid brain developed for tracking targets along a vector and allowing the ship to shadow after them.
- Saotome Ember Scanner and Slicer Unit: Designed to hack into a ships systems when in range. The slicer unit searches for slave circuits to lock onto and cause sabotage like instances before the fighter attacks.
- Saotome Nutaki System: An advanced navigational computer for shortening travel time and increasing the speed by which the pilots can reach an area being able to work with the tracker droid brain.
Weaknesses:
- Overly Engineered: Designed to be a beast of a ship that jumps into position and sets up with a clear view of ship hangers. To better handle and clear a path or set up at chokepoints in asteroid fields. THe heavy weapons and armor slow the ship down compared to the others but it is also one that gets escorts and has the defenses to protect itself in a slug fest with other ships.
- Stealthy In space: THe nightshadow hull works great in space but hovering outside of a planetside base exposes the ship. It larger profile also makes it visible to many more visual sensors and its weapons are easier to track back to their source.
- Manpower Intensive: COmpared to other ships, a full crew is needed to fully utalize the Inu class, from someone to operate the net lunchers to entrap fighters and larger ships with the shock nets. To a pilot to move them, a copilot and gunners to control the different weapons including one to aim and set the k struts boron missiles. Cost wise it takes more manpower to fly and when destroyed it is difficult to replace.
- Low Squadron: Designed with less is more, a single Inu fighter is usually brought for a squadron of them with one or two being given to a ship. Its size and armament just takes up what a group of snub fighters could
