Directorate Officer
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To provide the Directorate and its allies with an advanced, short-range superiority fighter
- Image Source: Star Citizen's P-72
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
- Manufacturer: Lucerne Labs
- Affiliation: Directorate, Silver Jedi, Closed-Market
- Model: Mistral-class Starfighter
- Production: Mass-Produced
- Material: Durasteel frame, Argentum-series Matrix Armor plating, Transparisteel canopy, standard starship components
- Classification: Starfighter
- Length: 12.5 meters
- Width: 4.5 meters
- Height: 2.5 meters
- Armament: Average
- Defenses: Low
- Squadron Count: Average: 12
- Maneuverability Rating: Very High
- Speed Rating: High
- Hyperdrive Class: None
- Standard Communications Array
- Standard Deflector Shield Generator
- Standard Ion Engines
- Standard Life Support Systems
- Standard Navigational Systems
- Standard Repulsorlift Engines
- Standard Sensor Array
- Standard Targeting Systems
- Can Enter Atmosphere and Land
- Biolux Organoform Circuitry
- Calor series Bio-Computer
- Modular Auxiliary Systems Turret
- Exotic Weapons: Stormflash Ion Encumbrance Systems, Reaper Mag Cannons
- Agile: Mistral fighters are exceptionally agile due to the microthruster arrays built into the circular portion of its hull. This allows Mistrals to make exceptionally unusual maneuvers that are difficult to predict and harder for enemy weapons to track.
- Prolonged Firepower: Mistrals focus more on a gun-based armament, giving them an edge in prolonged fights where other fighters may run out of munitions.
- Consummate Dogfighter: The Mistral's focus on guns is amplified by the ship sporting several minor systems designed to enhance its capabilities as a dogfighter, including advanced optical sights and highly responsive controls.
- Short-range: Mistrals are not equipped with hyperdrives and only carry an average amount of fuel, which effectively regulates their deployment from nearby starfighter bases, starships, and space stations.
- Weak Hull: The Mistral's maneuverability is not only due to its unusual array of thrusters, but also in large occurs because the ship has a rather light hull covered only in thin Chimera composite plating. This means that the Mistral relies heavily on its shields for protection.
- Fewer Warheads: Mistrals only have a single warhead launcher because of the ship's focus on guns, meaning that it carries fewer warheads. This often makes Mistrals less of a threat to capital ships compared to many of its peers.
Technical Descriptions
Flight Control Systems: The Mistral utilizes fairly typical flight control systems for its size which are modelled on legacy Incom airspeeder designs and the X-wing. This allows the fighters to easily be piloted by people used to flying those craft. However, the Mistral also sports several refinements from other Lucerne Labs craft, including an inertial compensator has been integrated into the ship's sensor suite. This allows the field to expand or contract automatically based on stimuli, whether it's a tumultous asteroid or a dovin basal. The Windsaber's controls are also highly adjustable to different pilot's perceptions of speed and balance, allowing each craft to be precisely tuned in order to maximize a pilot's ability to quickly act on the battlefield.
Sublight Engines: The Mistral uses a pair of fusial thrust ion engines at its base to provide the bulk of its propulsion. However, the Mistral also has multiple micro-thrusters located through its stabilizer wings and almost uniquely in a circular mounting arrangement in the middle of the ship. These thrusters provide some additional speed to the ship, but also notably enable the Mistral's incredible maneuverability and ability to perform unusual and complex maneuvers.
Hull: The Mistral uses a fairly conventional atmospheric-based design, largely to ensure that its performance in the atmosphere isn't lacking. This is an exceptional concern because as a short-range fighter, many Mistrals are based groundside. Because of the focus on maneuverability and responsiveness to control, the Mistral has a relatively light build both in terms of framework and armor plating. This means that the fighter's hull is durable than many of its peers.
Shields: The Mistral sports shield generators identical to those found on the Typhoon for parts commonality and maintenance. This provides the Mistral with average amounts of shield protection for a ship its size.
Weapons: Some quip that the Mistral is designed around its weapons, which at a glance appears to be at least partially true. A pair of large Reaper Mag Cannons in an over and under configuration do appear to take up much of the center of the craft. This configuration was chosen in order to place them in the center of gravity for the vessel, and to allow them to be easily used by advanced optical sights. A Stormflash Ion Encumbrance System is located in each wing root, while a single ventral-located general purpose warhead launcher provides the ship's only ordinance. This means that the Mistral has the average firepower of a typical starfighter, but most of it is geared at prolonged output against enemy starfighters rather than bursts of firepower that could be useful against enemy capital ships. The Mistral's is also somewhat unusual in that it contains internal cockpit analogue optical sights, allowing pilots to fire the ship's weapons without having to rely on targeting sensors. While this is not typically as accurate as sensor-guided targeting, this means that the Mistral can effectively fight even in areas of intense sensor jamming. Many pilots use the analogue sights to target and attack enemies without alerting the enemies that they're being targeted at all, as there is no active sensor pulse for the defending craft to detect.
Countermeasures: Mistrals are equipped with a single Modular Auxiliary Systems Turret located ventrally just behind the warhead launcher. This turret is most commonly equipped with a sensor jammer, allowing the Mistral to take advantage of its exceptional maneuverability to stay in visual blindspots of an enemy where the enemy's sensors cannot reliably detect its presence. However, it's not uncommon to see the tractor beam used when facing opponents that prefer to use swarms of smaller fighters or the directional particle shield when opponents are known to favor projectile weapons.
Updates: 4/4/2020
-Production changed from "Minor" to "Mass" in order to fit new production parameters
-Armor material changed from Chimera Composite to Argentum series Matrix Armor in order to match new production value
-Ratings & template altered to meet current factory standards
-Broken links fixed from board change
-Armor material changed from Chimera Composite to Argentum series Matrix Armor in order to match new production value
-Ratings & template altered to meet current factory standards
-Broken links fixed from board change
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