Brushfire System (12 Fire Linked Repeating Blasters)
Scale: Character
Fire Arc: Front
Crew: Pilot
Skill: Starship gunnery
Fire Control: 2D
Space Range: 1/2/3
Atmosphere Range: 10-100m/200m/300m
Damage: 12D
2 FAM missile launchers (fire separately)
Scale: Starfighter
Fire Arc: Front
Missile Loadout: 2 Each
Crew: 1
Skill: Starship gunnery
Fire Control: 2D
Space Range: Not usable in space
Atmosphere Range: 10-100m/300m/700m
Damage: 5D (see below)
Once Admiral Rochar and the Atran
Ardur rose to power, he created a research group of the most
talented of Atran Ardur's engineers to create an assassin ship.
That ship, the Doomsting, proved
remarkably effective at it's task. Instead of disbanding the
engineering group, as he had originally planned, Rochar decided to
set them to other tasks. One project of particular interest to
Admiral Rochar was the Talon.
Designed to protect Atran Ardur interests against all
opponents, a single Talon in the hands of a skilled crew can engage
an entire Imperial combat division. The Talon is virtually
incapable of fighting other starfighters, and relies on the support
of other Atran Ardur craft, such as the SETH, Bat, and Ardur
fighters or Grimlock Cruisers.
The Talon carries an impressive array of weapons. The G-7s
are it's most powerful combat weapons. Running the length of the
craft, they inflict massive amounts of damage on a successful hit,
fully capable of destroying a combat walker with a two second
burst. The Brushfire System, 12 repeating blasters that cover the
sides of the vessel, chew up large amounts of terrain, delivering
the listed damage to everything within their 15 meter target area.
The final weapon, the Fuel Air Munition missiles, are a Atran
Ardur innovation designed to destroy massive numbers of enemy
personnel, and their power is nothing short of remarkable. When
the missiles detonate, the release a cloud of fuel vapors. These
highly flammable vapors are then ignited, producing a massive
explosion. In an ordinary nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere the FAM cause
the listed damage to any within it's blast radius of +/- 140
meters. In more combustible atmospheres, the blast can be far more
powerful (GM discretion). High gravity worlds can have
unpredictable effects on FAMs, sometimes causing them to fail, and
sometimes increasing the power of the final explosion (again, at
the GM's discretion). The range listed for this weapon is it's
forward range only; it can plummet down a gravity well from up to
3 km up.
The Talon, as with other special purpose Atran Ardur
starfighters, is to be replaced with atmospheric versions as soon
as they can develop either a combat carrier craft inexpensive
enough to justify the conversion, or well defended bases on worlds
other than the moons of Jermalar.