Storm Knight Starfighter-class starship

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Storm Knight Starfighter-class Starship

The Starfighter is a ship with a clear purpose, but it is difficult to categorize by conventional means. The 100-ton ship is designed to be the personal craft of a Storm Knight, but it has notably been described as a ship designed by Don Quixote. With heavy crystaliron armor and a silvery Reflec finish, the sleek arrow-shaped starship looks like a warcraft. A ridiculous quad turret armed with range-enhanced pulse lasers gives it significant punch, but despite a reinforced hull, it is only a 100-ton ship, and unlikely to survive long in battle. Carrying a full turret and targeting system the Starfighter is a true starship with a jump-2 drive, though it requires high capacity batteries to jump when the quad turret and 7g maneuver drive is operating. It can travel the stars, engage enemies from very long range, and roar through the atmosphere. In many ways it is superior to a fighter, but it extraordinarily expensive, with a base cost greater than MCr 100.

Technically requiring a crew of up to four, a Starfighter has only two staterooms and minimal living space. Automation, in the form of a sophisticated computer system and repair drones programmed for a variety of ship's roles, allows the ship to be operated by one or two individuals. Add-on expert systems and shipboard robots can allow even lone Storm Knights without specific starship skills to command their ships, though usually with poor performance.

Storm Knight war doctrine is to deploy Starfighters in wings of 40-60 ships, engaging the enemy at range, destroying enemy fighters before they can close, and pummeling major combatants with coordinated mass attacks. This has never been tested. In practice, fighting only scattered engagements against ihatei forces, Starfighters are deployed in small groups as light escort ships. Detached vessels provide escort and convoy support to civilian vessels. Mostly, the Starfighter acts as the ostentatious steed of a Storm Knight.

A Starfighter cannot be purchased. A Storm Knight who achieves the rank of Knight Commander, by Rank or by Deed, may receive a Starfighter in reserve duty, similar to an Imperial scout on detached duty. The Starfighter remains with that Knight for as long as the Knight remains on reserve, usually for as long as the Knight is willing and able to operate the ship. The Storm Knight's Order is responsible for annual maintenance and will provide fuel at Stormhaven starports, but the Storm Knight is responsible for routine monthly maintenance and life support costs. Repairs may be covered by the Order if damage is incurred "in the line of duty", which for a reserve Knight usually means any action that brings honor to the Order. Disreputable actions can cause the Order to revoke the privilege of operating a Starfighter, though only after a thorough review and appellate process.

To cover operating costs, Starfighters often undertake private escort and convoy missions or provide secure courier service for messages, small cargos, or a single passenger. In some backwater systems a single or a few Storm Knights form the system defense force, deterring piracy for an otherwise defensibly population. In regions dominated by Humaniti, Storm Knights and their Starfighters are often perceived as heroic, but in Aslan space, a Starfighter is not welcome and often fired upon without provocation or warning.