BIG Z1776
Baboon with a MAAWS
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Designed as the replacement for the FT-90 "Crossguard" and improves on it in all respects. It is a new starfighter, fast, maneuverable, and flexible, and the pilots who fly it are the best. While there are a great many Crossguards still in service the Banshee is rapidly replacing it in main fleet units. This craft is designed as a frontline space superiority fighter, able to outmaneuver and outrun other frontline starfighters and neutralize them. Its flying wing design is meant to be a passive countermeasure to detection by lesser scanners on pirate and insurgent ships. Like other CDI products it is designed and built using the lessons of more than seven-hundred years of war games and constant dogfights, incorporating all the little lessons and feedback of their pilots. One of these lessons is the importance of command and control and accurate interception while maneuvering these fighters where they will be able to do the most damage and to avoid fights and opponents it will lose out against. It is an impressive capability which most other fighters cannot match. These fighters are able to perform some very impressive maneuvers although dedicated dogfighters and many droid starfighters would outrun and outmaneuver it, although this craft take hits that those fighters can't, and it can outrun and outmaneuver strike fighters although it usually can't take the hits from craft like them.
- Intent: To create a new multi-role starfighter replacement for the FT-90 "Crossguard" Starfighter in the Crossroads Republic Armed Forces
- Image Source:
- From: Star Wars Incom T-42 F-Wing
- By: AdamKop
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
- Designer: Incom Corporation
- Manufacturer: Crossroads Defense Industries
- Affiliation: Crossroads Republic Armed Forces
- Model: CDI FT-99 "Banshee" Starfighter
- Production: Limited
- Material: Alusteel, Titanium, Repulsorlift Components, Inertial Dampener Components, Sensor Components
- Classification: Starfighter
- Length: 10 Meters
- Width: 17 Meters
- Height: 3 Meters
- Armament: Average
- x2 Wing-Tip Mounted Repeating Laser Cannons
- x8 Hardpoints for mounting missiles or bombs (x4 under each wing)
- x1 Proton Torpedo Tube (8 Warheads)
- Defenses: Average (75 SBD Shield, 30 RU Hull)
- Squadron Count: Average: 12
- Maneuverability Rating: High
- Speed Rating: High
- Hyperdrive: Yes
- Hyperdrive Class: Class 1
- Titanium-armored cockpit ejects separately when needed and has deployable parachutes and its inertial dampeners are built in to absorb impact. It is able to reenter atmosphere without damage tanks to its automated course-correction jets and a one-time only reentry shield. Possesses a comprehensive survival kit and transponders for search and rescue.
- Wing-tip mounted heavy repeating laser cannons.
- Underslung wing hardpoints
- Proton Torpedo Tube under the chin
- Deflector shield generator, slightly stronger than T-85 X-Wings
- Sensors with full coverage in all directions
- Internal astromech hold.
- Bio-scan palm reader for craft start-up.
- One main thruster and two smaller secondary ones.
- Advanced computer systems which provide live updates and receive updates from a larger battle network.
- Advanced targeting computer to allow for precision missile strikes and bomb drops.
- Advanced data link for the pilot to be aware of everything going in every direction from his starfighter.
- Advanced avionics in atmosphere and zero-gravity and powerful engine.
- Powerful maneuvering thrusters allows a Pugachev's Cobra-style of maneuver.
- Powerful electronic countermeasures and jammer.
- Sensor-deflecting design to assist it in getting through the inferior scanners of lesser opponents.
- Maneuverable in both atmosphere and zero-gravity
- High top speed and rapidly accelerates.
- Flexible mission profile.
- Can perform high-stress maneuvers to evade in a dogfight.
- Difficult to steal.
- Requires a high-degree of training and lots of logged flight hours to proficiently fly in combat.
- It only has one main engine, making it vulnerable to being crippled in combat, the secondary thrusters aren't combat-rated.
- Expensive to obtain and maintain.
- Not able to engage ships with much proficiency, small proton torpedo load.
- Weapons on the hardpoints are vulnerable to detonation.
Designed as the replacement for the FT-90 "Crossguard" and improves on it in all respects. It is a new starfighter, fast, maneuverable, and flexible, and the pilots who fly it are the best. While there are a great many Crossguards still in service the Banshee is rapidly replacing it in main fleet units. This craft is designed as a frontline space superiority fighter, able to outmaneuver and outrun other frontline starfighters and neutralize them. Its flying wing design is meant to be a passive countermeasure to detection by lesser scanners on pirate and insurgent ships. Like other CDI products it is designed and built using the lessons of more than seven-hundred years of war games and constant dogfights, incorporating all the little lessons and feedback of their pilots. One of these lessons is the importance of command and control and accurate interception while maneuvering these fighters where they will be able to do the most damage and to avoid fights and opponents it will lose out against. It is an impressive capability which most other fighters cannot match. These fighters are able to perform some very impressive maneuvers although dedicated dogfighters and many droid starfighters would outrun and outmaneuver it, although this craft take hits that those fighters can't, and it can outrun and outmaneuver strike fighters although it usually can't take the hits from craft like them.
