Alasdair Voland
Character
ISTBL-Imperial Standard Tie Bomber (Limited Production)
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create your standard Imperial TIE bomber used by Imperials and anyone who can manage to steal or buy one second-hand, this time at the limited production level.
- Image Source: Here you go.
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- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: click.
- Manufacturer: Bastion Holdings
- Affiliation:
Alasdair Voland
, any Imperial company/faction/character, anyone able to steal it/buy it second hand from the former. - Market Status: Open-Market (most not in Imperial hands or outside the company stolen or resold without authorization).
- Model: ISTBL-Imperial Standard Tie Bomber (Limited Production).
- Production: Limited.
- Material:
- Classification: Upgraded Starbomber
- Length: 7.8
- Width: 9.3
- Height: 5.1
- Armament: Very High
- Fire-Linked Heavy Laser Cannons [x4]
- Missile Launcher [x8]
- Defenses: Very High.
- Squadron Count: Average: 12.
- Maneuverability Rating: Low.
- Speed Rating: Low.
- Hyperdrive: Class 2.
- All standard features.
- N/A.
- Peace Through Superior Firepower...: The ISTBL variant of the Standard Tie Bomber has quite a few more weapons and missiles than its base variant and even upgraded M variant, while still maintaining its other beneficial characteristics like higher defenses, making it a deadly bomber against land and ground targets.
- ...But Peace is Expensive: Balancing all the thousands of minor changes to the original design to get even more firepower out of it was expensive, and this is reflected in the raised cost of the bomber, limiting its use even further than the M variant.
- Vulnerable Without Escort: Its low speed and maneuverability make it vulnerable to hit and run attacks by more maneuverable and quick starfighters, as such one would be wise to escort it with interceptors or fighters.
The ISTBL is an improved variant ISTBM Tie Bomber of the produced by Bastion Holdings for explicitly military use, even better than the upgraded M model. It has been equipped with additional heavy laser cannons and launchers thanks to improved power management and more efficient automatization, carrying a total of four of the former and eight of the latter. In addition to this it has been given upgraded armor and shielding, making it both very survivable and well-armed at the same time and superior to the M variant directly preceding it. One will still, however, want air superiority or a fighter escort for them, as they are slow and can thus be slowly whittled down by enemy strikecraft, even if it takes them a long time.
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