The Night Caller, IMO, is a fanboy abortion of a Corellian Corvette. The fact that the author wants the reader to believe that you can shove a squadron of fighters into the frame of a Corellian Corvette is asinign.
Wraith Squadron p144
The dot grew until Piggy could make out its shape. It was not the Implacable, nowhere near so formidable a vehicle: it was a Corellian corvette, a long, narrow vessel with a blocky engine housing at one end; at the other end, the bow looked like an ancient war-hammer head turned sideways.
Even at this distance and through the crude imager of the datapad, Piggy coud see a bright vertical slit of light appear at the bow as the hold doors there were opened. Two large silhouettes emerged from the light and rapidly grew as they came closer.
They resolved themselves into TIE fighters.
This snippit shows that in fact the author does want the reader to think that the Night Caller is the standard Corellian Corvette and that TIE fighters can fly out of the bow of the ship.
Wraith squadron p 150
Flipping throught the ICS, the hammerhead portion of the Corvette is only two decks high with one of them being the bridge. That only leaves one deck able to house the the bow doors and forward hold. They would be too small to have TIE fighters egress from it. Also, the central tube is too small for TIE fighters to be able to be stored in as a forward hold. If the forward hold is suppost to be the hammerhead, then perhaps two could be squeezed in, but then you no longer have room for the bridge."It has been very heavily modified from the standard corvette, Commander. Where the Tantive IV had a luxury quarters deck beneath the bridge, Night Caller has eliminated the deck, I suspect to make extra room in the bow hold for the four TIE fighters. The bow has also been widened, the hull armor on the sides of the bow narrowed, electronic appartus that should be between bulkheads there moved somewhere else. The topside hold has been converted into a skimmer hangar. There are no laboratories; that's where the luxury quarters are located."
Wraith Squadron p159-160
Now the central tube that couldn't hold a TIE fighter has three rows of X-wings.They welded metal sheets approximately the size of TIE fighter solar array wings between the escape pods hanging from the corvette's flanks. they stowed two of the ball shaped escape poks in the belly hold and painted the others the same dark Imperial shade as TIE fighters. Then Wedge personally flew the two remaining TIE fighters to dock them at the empty escape pod hatches. The end result was that from any scrutiny except close examination, the TIE fighters looked like escape pods-and would actually be faster and safer to launch than out of the bow hold.
With the TIE fighters out of the bow hold, Kell and Cubber dsassembled the braces designed to hold them. They used that metal and more from the belly hold to fabricate a new set of braces and rails, three rows of them, one above the other, built at the very rear of the hold.
It would require delicate piloting, but an X-wing could now use repulorlifts to back into the bow hold and accept instructions from a ground-guiding crew member to slide into rails spaced to accommodate their strike foils. Once they reached the rear of the rails they could be locked there by metal brackets lowered into place.
This gave them an array of three X-wings by three, the strike foils on each row overlapping one another slightly. With the bow doors open, the X-wings in the center column could launch quicky and in relative safety; the six along the sides would have to launch a little more slowly, but the guidance rails would probably keep accidents from happening.
With nine X-wings in the bow hold and two more up in the top hold, Night Caller could now carry eleven X-wings and two TIE fighters.
Even if you use the wedge shaped hull that creates the bulk of the Corvettes volume, it represents around 25% of the length of the total ship, which would be around 37.5 meters. Now the X-wing is 12.5 meters long so three end to end is exactly 37.5. This leaves no room for the bulkheads, nor any armor nor equipment. Even if you increase the size of the wedge shaped hull to accomadate the nine fighters, if just barely, you have now dedicated the bulk of your internal volume to the storage of the fighters with very little left over for the fighters support equipment, let alone the Night Caller's equipment, crew quarters, support equipment, ect...
Again, turn to your ICS and cram two fighters into the hammerhead portion, and nine into the wedge shaped hull portion. What do you have left? Deck one and two by the turbo lasers. They are small chunks of space. The main tube behind the wedge shaped hull and the docking rings. Again, small portions of the ship to cram all the other things a starship would need.
The Night Calller is meant to be a Corellian Corvette. But it is a total fanboy wank off to one. It is every bit as bad as a two squadron capable Nebulon and IMO every bit as bad as a squadron of fighters killing a capship. If in fact the Night Caller does exist as a 150m corvette, then it would actualy be simple for a squadron of snub fighters to demolish her since it would be a hollow shell with little in the way of structual intergrety.
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