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Tikkes-class Assault Craft
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION- Intent: The purpose of this submission is to provide the Confederacy of Independent Systems with a missile-centric gunship.
- Development Thread: N/A
- Image Source: Adamkop
- Manufacturer: Arakyd Industries
- Model: Tikkes-class Assault Craft
- Affiliation: Private Market
- Modularity: No
- Production: Mass-Produced
- Material: Duraplast, Alusteel, Glasteel
- Classification: Gunship
- Role: Missile Deliverance
- Height: 5 meters
- Width: 10 meters
- Length: 22 meters
- Power Core Generator/Reactor: Solar Ionization Reactor
- Hyperdrive Rating: Class 1
- Minimum Crew: 1 (Pilot)
- Optimal Crew: 4 (Pilot, Co-Pilot, Gunners)
- Passenger Capacity: 0
- Cargo Capacity: 15 metric tons
- Consumables: 2 weeks
- Sublight Speed and Maneuverability: Class 4
- Proton Torpedo Launchers (8; 6 torpedos)
- Standard Communications Array
- Standard Navigational Systems
- Standard Life Support Systems
- Standard Targeting Systems
- Standard Deflector Shield Systems
- Standard Sensory Suite
The Tikkes-class Assault Craft was commissioned by the Confederacy of Independent Systems in order to supplement its starfighter "swarms". Whilst enormous in number, the totality of the typical droid swarms did not necessarily pack the explosive bite required to damage capital ships at a vital level. As such, the CIS reached out to a member of the Techno Union: Arakyd Industries, in order to remedy this problem. The end result was a gunship which differed immensely from what the Galaxy considered as "standard". As a whole, all of the laser cannons and proton bombs from the "standard" configuration were removed in order to accommodate an additional pair of warhead launchers. This results in a total of eight proton torpedo launchers, with six torpedos each. Named for the Quarren, Separatist leader of ancient times, the Tikkes-class Assault Craft is poised to add some much-needed bite to the Confederate Navy.
AUTHOR'S NOTE
(As the template does not quantify how many missiles each gunship warhead launcher can hold, I quantified it with six. This number was selected due to its presence in the elite starfighter build in addition to the fact that proton torpedoes are the definition of standard ordnance)
