The Sylvester is Riscah
Tyour's personal fighter, designed to allow him to pass as one
of the many independent fighter jocks currently roaming the galaxy.
However, while many of those jocks tend to fly ships that both look
and fly like junkyard rejects, Riscah's funding and sense of self
preservation has made the Sylvester a hot ship, despite it's
somewhat dilapidated appearance.
The primary difference between the Sylvester and other
Y-Wings are the Ballistae Torpedo launchers. An innovation of the
Yaeger Imperial Development Group, Ballistae-XR have been equipped
with a very powerful Trillium/Magnesium "White burn" engine. That
Engine, and it's fuel supply, takes up much of the space of the
torpedo, but the higher impact velocities compensates for the
smaller warhead. The missiles themselves are somewhat larger than
Proton Torpedoes, and take up most of the space formerly used for
the ion cannon turret. The main problem of Ballistae XR missiles,
their cost, is not much of a problem for Riscah, though he does
have problems finding others when out of the Yaeger sector. For
this reason, the launchers are capable of holding an additional
four proton torpedoes, and the missile systems can be switched over
in the space of five seconds.
The other systems of the Sylvester are all somewhat
tweaked, preforming at slightly higher levels than they could be
expected to. However, none of this is apparent from the outside,
as the Sylvester has a cheap and peeling black and white
paint job, with insignia of several military organizations, most of
which are partially excised, decorating the wings. The removed Ion
Cannon turret looks as though it simply had a layer of durasteel
plastered over it. Finally, the improved shield generators bulge
out of the chassis, and have been equipped with non-essential
static generators, whose sole function is to spark, steam, and
interfere with the ship's intercom and subspace radio.