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[starfury]

design your own interceptor fighters, close in size to the modern F-16/18 range of fighter jets.

[Brother-Captain Gaius]

From an older thread:

SF-128E "Eviscerator" Starfighter

Length: 9.1m
Wingspan: 7.85m

Powerplant: Riff & Johnson 4x Cold Fusion MkVI Stardrive
Engine: R&J X-520 Dual Thrusters
Shield System: TX-90 Spec. Radiation/Combat MkIII Shielding Package
Armor: 0.37mm composite micro-filament; 34cm Titanium/Adamantium alloy; 20cm inner titanium
Crew: 1 pilot
Max Speed: 130mps
Max FTL Speed: 33x speed of light

Weapons:
- Twin nose-mounted EMX-2 "Shredder" neutron cannons (theoretical ROF is 57,000rpm)
- Dual wingtip-mounted EMX-9 Plasma cannons
- 6 M-56 "Penetrator" missles (16 kilotons/piece)
- 16 M-27A3 "Wasp" anti-fighter missles with ECCM package(0.54 kilotons/piece)

Auxiliary Systems:
- 3x Redundant ECM Package and multi-wave jammer
- Auxiliary Power Unit (enough for emergency life support, 15% shields, and 66% engine power, EMP shielded)
- 5x Redundant Emergency Life Support System (EMP shielded)
- Emergency Pilot Safety and Survival in Vacuum Unit (EPSSVU, fully self-contained and EMP shielded)
- MkVII Starfighter On-Board Targeting and Information Computer (Mk7SOBTIC)

[Shinova]

Nighthawk-class Space Superiority Starfighter


Length : 11m
Wingspan : 6m

Power source : Laser-driven Crystalline-based power source
Secondary power source : Backup microfusion plant

Main Engine : SSA-X-03 Advanced Particle drive
Manuevering : Gravitic drive
Shielding : Omni-phasic bubble shield
Armor : 3.5cm Compressed alloy, nanotech-supported
Crew : 1 pilot
Max speeds :
-400-1,400mps Dogfighting
-35,000mps Intercept
FTL : 8,000c

Weapons :
-1 underside Pseudoplasma assault cannon (firepower not given, since chosen values would be purely arbitrary)
-2 Photon/Anti-photon cannons

-4 Hyperspace missiles (tears hole into hyperspace, allowing some hyperspace energy to flood into normalspace)
-4 Black-Hole missiles (tears space-time and creates mini/temporary black hole)
-2 Anti-planetary Plasma missiles (Ignites REAL plasma in a planet's atmosphere. Optional weaponry)
-2 Anti-Capship Shark Torpedoes (penetrates shielding, latches onto target, drills to ship's innards, then activates a hyperspace gate, sending a huge chunk of the capship into hyperspace)

Cloaking Systems (All of these activate at the same time to give fighter cloak :

-Full light cloak (Allows all light on EM spectrum to pass through figher)
-Full sensors cloak (Lets all sensory emissions pass through fighter)
-Anti-gravity field (cancels out gravity generated by fighter, rendering fighter invisible to gravity-field detectors)
-No engine usage, maneuvers only through gravitic drive. Anti-gravity field compensates for this
-Can fire while cloaked, but not advised since enemies can lock on to source of weaponfire

Auxillary Systems :

-EMP immune (systems do not use electricity as method of conducting power)
-Communications scrambler
-ECM (Creates sensor ghost that confuses enemy missiles and targeting system)
-Offensive ECM (Floods enemy's sensors, making them useless)
-Ejection module, capable of 2,000c FTL/with mini-gravitic drive
-Multiple self-destruct devices (mini-Black hole generation, hyperspace flooding)

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Note: You never said anything about a tech limit

[Brother-Captain Gaius]

Nighthawk-class Space Superiority Starfighter


Length : 11m
Wingspan : 6m

Power source : Laser-driven Crystalline-based power source
Secondary power source : Backup microfusion plant

Main Engine : SSA-X-03 Advanced Particle drive
Manuevering : Gravitic drive
Shielding : Omni-phasic bubble shield
Armor : 3.5cm Compressed alloy, nanotech-supported
Crew : 1 pilot
Max speeds :
-400-1,400mps Dogfighting
-35,000mps Intercept
FTL : 8,000c

Weapons :
-1 underside Pseudoplasma assault cannon (firepower not given, since chosen values would be purely arbitrary)
-2 Photon/Anti-photon cannons

-4 Hyperspace missiles (tears hole into hyperspace, allowing some hyperspace energy to flood into normalspace)
-4 Black-Hole missiles (tears space-time and creates mini/temporary black hole)
-2 Anti-planetary Plasma missiles (Ignites REAL plasma in a planet's atmosphere. Optional weaponry)
-2 Anti-Capship Shark Torpedoes (penetrates shielding, latches onto target, drills to ship's innards, then activates a hyperspace gate, sending a huge chunk of the capship into hyperspace)

Cloaking Systems (All of these activate at the same time to give fighter cloak :

-Full light cloak (Allows all light on EM spectrum to pass through figher)
-Full sensors cloak (Lets all sensory emissions pass through fighter)
-Anti-gravity field (cancels out gravity generated by fighter, rendering fighter invisible to gravity-field detectors)
-No engine usage, maneuvers only through gravitic drive. Anti-gravity field compensates for this
-Can fire while cloaked, but not advised since enemies can lock on to source of weaponfire

Auxillary Systems :

-EMP immune (systems do not use electricity as method of conducting power)
-Communications scrambler
-ECM (Creates sensor ghost that confuses enemy missiles and targeting system)
-Offensive ECM (Floods enemy's sensors, making them useless)
-Ejection module, capable of 2,000c FTL/with mini-gravitic drive
-Multiple self-destruct devices (mini-Black hole generation, hyperspace flooding)

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Note: You never said anything about a tech limit

Ack! Where the hell's the life support!? lol
<tries to pilot one but asphyxiates after a few minutes, then freezes.>

[Slartibartfast]

BEF-19 Old England Toffee

Length: 15m
Wingspan: N/A

Powerplant: retro-recursive steam engine
Backup power: muscle powered
Crew: 1 pilot, 1 gunner, 2 rowers
Max Speed: 1.09 megawangs
Avg. FTL Travel Time: fashionably late

Weapons:
- Neutronium-ore catapult (w/extra rubber bands)
- Big water cannon

Additional Features
- Seatbelts
- Convertible hood
- Cupholders

Role: Space Inferiority Fighter

[Shinova]

JediNeophyte's post

Ah, I knew I was forgetting something!!

Just put in typical, generic life support and the fighter would be finished.

[Brother-Captain Gaius]

BEF-19 Old England Toffee

Length: 15m
Wingspan: N/A

Powerplant: retro-recursive steam engine
Backup power: muscle powered
Crew: 1 pilot, 1 gunner, 2 rowers
Max Speed: 1.09 megawangs
Avg. FTL Travel Time: fashionably late

Weapons:
- Neutronium-ore catapult (w/extra rubber bands)
- Big water cannon

Additional Features
- Seatbelts
- Convertible hood
- Cupholders

Role: Space Inferiority Fighter

LOL

[Warspite]

BEF-19 Old England Toffee

Length: 15m
Wingspan: N/A

Powerplant: retro-recursive steam engine
Backup power: muscle powered
Crew: 1 pilot, 1 gunner, 2 rowers
Max Speed: 1.09 megawangs
Avg. FTL Travel Time: fashionably late

Weapons:
- Neutronium-ore catapult (w/extra rubber bands)
- Big water cannon

Additional Features
- Seatbelts
- Convertible hood
- Cupholders

Role: Space Inferiority Fighter

You forgot the furry dice!

[The Yosemite Bear]

Space Hick Kustom Special

Manufacture: "Barrowed from area 69"
Lowrider tri- (Dinner ringer shaped thang)
Weaponz: two Manji 88 shotguns
Fuel: Uncle's Chilli and shine
Speed: Faster then all heck
performance: Does bootlegger turns real well
Armour: Aw-hell them gov'ment boys don't know ya have to add a couple feet of reinforced armour, mad max style ya know.
Life Support: Well we need it after that chili tore us up somethin fierce
Kustom Paint: Nascar decals, Confed flag, etc
Other equipment: Alien "Ab-du-ton, hell it's good for pickin up chicks"

[Vendetta]

Space Hick Kustom Special

Manufacture: "Barrowed from area 69"
Lowrider tri- (Dinner ringer shaped thang)
Weaponz: two Manji 88 shotguns
Fuel: Uncle's Chilli and shine
Speed: Faster then all heck
performance: Does bootlegger turns real well
Armour: Aw-hell them gov'ment boys don't know ya have to add a couple feet of reinforced armour, mad max style ya know.
Life Support: Well we need it after that chili tore us up somethin fierce
Kustom Paint: Nascar decals, Confed flag, etc
Other equipment: Alien "Ab-du-ton, hell it's good for pickin up chicks"

Window frames cut out so you can jump in without opening the doors?

[The Yosemite Bear]

Exactly, oh and on life support other, Beer Fidge

[The Yosemite Bear]

And it is a Manji and Redneck modded X-files UFO.

I mean where else do you think would mount a pair of 88mm Double barreled shotguns.....

[Warspite]

OK, my shot at this:


XF 0 Crash Test Dummy Space Vehicle:

Length: 15 m
Span: 9 m
Height: 3 m

A space/atmospheric stealth swing-role fighter.

Powerplant: Fusion powered electromagnetic capacitor.
Main engines: 2x improved thrust-vectored ion drive.
Atmospheric engines: 2x thrust-vectored pulse detonation wave engine, allowing full VTOL operations.

Crew: 1 pilot, 1 WSO.

Main shielding: Electromagnetic deflector field.
Secondary shielding: Low intensity field emitters, for reduced friction-induced heating in atmosphere.
Armour: Lithium-Titanium-Magnesium airframe alloy (if possible). 1 metre ablative ceramic mesh in iron-copper matrix.

Defensive systems:
- Defense Semi-Automatic Subsystem with automatic signal analysis, threat priorisation, full authority on management of craft emissions and inverse-phase emmiters (not technobabble, something like this is installed on the Rafale).
- 2x expendable active decoy launchers, with 20 decoys each.
- 1x decoy jammer, directly linked to DSAS.
- Flare launcher, with 50 wideband flares.
- Chaff launcher, with 200 expendable discharges, with frequency pre-selector.
- Active Radar, IR and laser jammers.

Offensive systems:
- 2 Rapid-fire 50mm mass drivers, 2000 ammunition rack, with selective rate of fire, selection between armour piercing DU, armour piercing HEAT and HE shells.
- 4 Short range interception missiles (space or atmosphere algorithms incorporated)
- 4 Long range interception missiles (as in the short ranged ones), with mid-course guidance by datalink.
- 2 Anti-Capital ship missiles, fusion or conventional HE.
- 6 general purpose attack missiles, IR IITV, laser or radar guided.
- 8 anti-radar missiles.
- 8 Hyper-velocity missiles, with laser guidance and active radar.
- 6 Variable-Yield Independent Attack missiles.
- 12 Precision Munitions with fusion, deep-penetrator or HE filling.
- 8 HE Precision Guided Munitions, IR, IITV or laser guided.
- 2 Advanced Cruise Missiles (space AND atmosphere algorithms incorporated).
- 2 Orbit-to-Surface Special Demolition Device.

*( Unfortunately, internal space precludes carriage of all mentioned weapons at the same time)

Auxiliary systems:
- On-board oxygen generation and recycler. (I haven't forget this!!!)
- High security, high speed, autonomous information and distribution system.
- Off-Axis sensor and targeting system.
- Solar sail auxiliary power unit.
- Ejection module integrated into cockpit (bathtub à la F-111).

Wew! What did I forget??