Talon


Craft: Atran Ardur CS-22 "Talon"
Type: Anti-personnel starfighter
Scale: Starfighter
Length: 25 meters
Skill: Starfighter Piloting; Talon
Cost: Not available for sale
Crew: 4
Passengers: 1
Cargo Capacity: 300 kg.
Consumables: 2 months
Hyperdrive Multiplier: x1.5
Hyper Backup: None
Nav Computer: Yes
Maneuverability: 2D+1
Space: 7
Atmosphere: 420; 1200 kph
Hull: 3D+2
Shields: 2D+1
Sensors:
Passive: 10/1D+1
Scan: 30/2D
Search: 50/3D
Focus: 4/4D
Weapons:
2 G7 Gatling Blaster Cannons (fire separately)
Scale: Walker
Fire Arc: Front
Crew: Pilot
Skill: Starship gunnery
Fire Control: 2D+1
Space Range: 1-7/25/50
Atmosphere Range: 40m-700m/2.5km/5.0km
Damage: 15D
2 Heavy Laser Cannons (fire linked)
Scale: Starfighter
Fire Arc: Front
Crew: Co-pilot
Skill: Starship gunnery
Fire Control: 2D
Space Range: 1-3/12/25
Atmosphere Range: 100-300m/1.2 km/2.5 km
Damage: 5D
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.
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