Lance Heavy Fighter

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Lance Heavy Fighter

Adapted from Challenge 60. The Lance Fighter was designed after the Fourth Frontier War, in light of the poor performance of four other classes of light fighters used as auxillaries on colonial warships. Despite the increase in volume, the ship's greater punch more than makes up for the fewer fighters that can be deployed.

Unlike most Imperial designs, the Lance makes use of a heavy non-gravitic X-Ray laser to increase its offensive firepower at short range. A ten cell missle pack is fitted to a ventral tray, and its MFD can control up to five of the missles at any one time. It also boasts some of the heaviest armor ever built on an antebellum era Imperial Naval fighter, being swaddled in 3 cm of bonded superdense to enable it to survive direct laser attacks. A small stateroom is fitted for the three man crew, though they must hot bunk while on extended patrols.

The fighter has a distinctive appearance: a baroque combination of lifting body, with canards and variable geometry forward swept wings for atmospheric combat. The fighter relies mostly on its active sensors for establishing sensor locks, and almost always works in conjunction with other fighters or heavier ships. The Lance was used heavily during the Imperial Civil War, often aboard larger raiding ships, and it was one of the most commonly used fighters in commerce and Black War raids. In Regency service it is used as either an auxiliary to supplement the Magnum Heavy Fighter (See COACC, pg.83) or as a strike fighter by the Special Operations Command. Two other versions of this fighter exist in Regency service: a ground strike version with wing hardpoints and reconfigurable bomb bay, and the Lance-Bis, an N-PAW equipped defense fighter built for the 1140 Arms Program for interception of small vampire ships.

Lance Heavy Fighter

General Data

Displacement: 40 tons	Hull Armor: 84
Length: 31.2 meters	Volume: 560 m³
Price: 72.024 MCr	Target Size: VS
Configuration: Needle AF	Tech Level: 15
Mass (Loaded/Unloaded): 590.814 tons/505.198 tons

Engineering Data

Power Plant: TL-15 219 MW Fusion Plant (One Year Duration)(600 MW/Hit), 4.598 MW surplus

Jump Performance: 0

Jump Fuel: 0 m³

G-Rating: 6G Heplar (20 MW/G), Contra-Grav (4 MW)

G-Turns: 69 (2.5 m³ each)

Maint: 25

Electronics

Computer: 2 TL-15 Fb (1.1 MW each)

Commo: 300,000 km Radio (Range:10, 10 MW), 1000 AU Maser (0.6 MW)

Avionics: Imaging EMS, inertial/gravitational positioning, 190 km/hr NOE

Sensors: PEMS 120,000 km Fixed (Range:4, 0.1 MW), AEMS 300,000 km (Range:10, 15 MW)

ECM/ECCM: EMM (0.56 MW)

Controls: Flt Deck with 3 Normal Workstations

Armament

Offensive 525 MJ Non-Gravitic X-ray Laser Lance (-3 Dms, Loc:1, Arc:1, 59.44 MW), 10 Cell Msl Bay (Loc:11, Arcs:All, 0.15 MW)

Defensive: None

Master Fire Directors: 1 TL-15 300,000 km DF MFD

Name	Short	Medium	Long	Extreme
525 MJ Laser Lance	5:1/18-51	10:1/18-51	20: 1/11-39	40:1/6-17

Accommodations

Life Support: Extended (0.112 MW)

Grav Compensation: 6Gs (2.8 MW)

Crew: 3 (Pilot, MFD Gunner, Engineer)

Crew Accommodations:

Passenger Accomadation: Small Stateroom (Multiple Occupancy)

Other Facilities: Fuel Scoops cover 5% of the hull (1.4 hours for full tanks)

Cargo: 1.852 m³

Small Craft and Launch Facilities: None

Air Locks: 1