Approved Starship Cresh-Type Patrol Fighter

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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

• Intent: To provide a native Verpine starfighter in service to the Silver Jedi
• Image Source: AdamKopp
• Canon Link: N/A
• Primary Source: N/A

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

• Manufacturer: Slayn & Korpil / Silver Jedi
• Affiliation: Silver Jedi
• Model: Cresh-class Patrol Starfighter
• 
  Production: Minor
  
• Material: Beskar Hull, typical starship components

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

• Classification: Heavy Starfighter
• Length: 3 meters
• Width: 16.5 meters
• Height: 3 meters
• Armament: Very High
• 4 ArMek SW-7a Ion Cannons
• 4 Gyril 72 Autoblasters
• 1 LLT-7 General Purpose Warhead Launcher (Variable Loadout - typically 4 Starcore-class Concussion Missiles)
• 1 Minelayer (2 Void-7 Seismic Charges or 3 M-L4 Seeker Mines or 4 MX-I5 Ion Mines or 4 MX-Int Mines or 4 G9-M Concussion mines)
• 1 Intruder Missile Launcher (2 Heavy Intruder Missiles)
• Defenses: Moderate
• Squadron Count: Low: 8
• Maneuverability Rating: Low (Very Low with boost engaged)
• Speed Rating: Average (Moderate with boost engaged)
• Hyperdrive Class: Very Slow: x5

STANDARD FEATURES

• Standard Communications Array
• Standard Deflector Shield Generator
• Standard Hyperdrive
• Standard Ion Engines
• Standard Life Support Systems
• Standard Navigational Systems
• Standard Repulsorlift Engines
• Standard Sensor Array
• Standard Targeting Systems
• Can Enter Atmosphere and Land

ADVANCED SYSTEMS

• Surgine-series Fuel Accelerant System
• Modular Auxiliary Systems Turret

Strengths:

• Heavy Hitter: The Cresh-Type Patrol Starfighter is very well armed with a variety of different weapons, making it quite dangerous to many subcapital ships and smaller capital warships.
• Boost: The Cresh can use its Surgine-series Fuel Accelerant System to temporarily boosts its speed, making it somewhat faster than the average starfighter.

Weaknesses:

• Small Squadron Size: Creshs are fairly large and awkward sized ships, which typically means that they take up more space in a capital ship's hangar compared to a normal starfighter.
• Low Maneuverability: The Cresh's main hull is essentially a giant stabilizer, which makes the craft somewhat less inherently agile than many of its counterparts. This lackluster maneuverability is only worsened by engaging the ship's Surgine-series Fuel Accelerant system that temporarily boosts the ship's speed.

Description: The Cresh-Type Patrol Starfighter is an outgrowth of Slayn & Korpil's earlier B-wing and Besh-type Starfighters, and many ways is viewed as a hybridization of those two designs. Ostensibly designed to conduct patrols in the Roche System and defend the system from incursions, the Cresh combines reasonable flight performance for a heavy fighter with a varied and devastating weapons loadout that is so heavy that it has been dubbed the "wing with guns": the Cresh has no fewer than eight guns that are each roughly equivalent to a laser cannon: four ion cannons are designed to rapidly disable ships for boarding and inspection, while another four autoblasters are designed to rapidly fill an area of space with blaster bolts to chew through enemy missiles and swarm fighters. Together, these guns have little trouble ripping through most starfighters and light transports. The Cresh also sports a good number of physical munition weapons as well though, notably Lucerne Lab's versatile general purpose warhead launcher as well as the Verpine's own original Intruder Missiles. Perhaps most unusually, the Cresh has a minelayer in order to hastily set-up defensive minefields within the belt. However, it is used much more frequently to tactically discourage close pursuit of the fighter by opponents: few enemies make the mistake more than once of running into a seismic charge at point-blank range. Despite its focus on firepower, the Cresh is a reasonably durable craft, mostly due to its incorporation of micronized beskar plating as well as active defense in the form of a Modular Auxiliary Systems Turret(MAST). MAST modules frequently used on the Cresh include the tractor beam projector (to better immobilize targets for destruction) and the sensor jammer (to more easily disappear within the tumbling asteroids of the Roche Asteroid Belt). While the largest concentration of Cresh-Type Starfighters is within the Roche Asteroid Belt, particularly around the Korpil G62 Shipyard, in local defense force hangars, the starfighter has become increasingly more common in Silver Jedi Navy fleets as an alternative to already existing heavy fighter and patrol craft designs.

 

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Approved.