Beltran Rarr
Character
OSA-04 "Apex" Heavy Escort Fighter
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a heavy starfighter to fill escort and capital ship defense roles
- Image Source: Tobias Frank via www.artstation.com
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
- Manufacturer: Obsidian Star Aerospace
- Affiliation: Obsidian Star Aerospace, Obsidian Star Technologies, Order of the Silver Jedi, Beltran Rarr, Closed-Market
- Model: OSA-04
- Production: Mass-Produced
- Material: Durasteel, starship components, circuitry
- Classification: Starfighter
- Length: 12 meters
- Width: 3 meters
- Height: 10 meters
- Armament: High
- 2 x Twin Heavy Laser Cannon Turrets (1 located underneath the fuselage in the ventral position, 1 located on top of the fuselage in the dorsal position - both have the ability to rotate 360 degrees)
- 2 x Heavy Laser Cannons (front arc)
- 2 x Proton Torpedo Launchers (front arc)
- Defenses: High
- Ablative armor
- Shields
- 2 x Rear mounted chaff launchers
- Squadron Count: Low (8)
- Maneuverability Rating: Low
- Speed Rating: Average
- Hyperdrive Class: Very Slow - Class 10.0
- Standard Ion Propulsion Drive
- Emergency Class 10.0 Hyperdrive
- Standard Sensor Suite
- Standard Communications system
- Two person cockpit (A pilot and radar intercept officer)
- Two self-contained heavy laser turrets (each manned by a gunner)
- Proton torpedo launchers
- 2 x rear mounted chaff launchers
- High efficiency shield emitter
- Ablative armor
- Heavily Armed: The Apex Heavy Escort Fighter has a heavy weapons payload designed to allow the fighter to engage multiple targets simultaneously.
- Heavy Defenses: The Apex Heavy Escort Fighter boasts heavy ablative armor, a powerful shield array and chaff launchers designed to confuse enemy sensors and missile guidance systems
- Slow Hyperdrive: The Apex Heavy Escort Fighter is designed to be launched within a star system by a larger ship. As such, it carries a very slow, emergency backup hyperdrive to be used in case of emergencies.
- Not Very Maneuverable: For a starfighter, the Apex Heavy Escort Fighter is not very maneuverable. It is designed to engage multiple targets at a range where high speed maneuvers are not required, or where the targets are slower and less maneuverable than it. In cases where it is met by high speed interceptors, it is very difficult for the Apex fighter to keep up.
The Apex Heavy Escort Fighter is designed as an escort for capital ships. I has a four man crew: One pilot, one radar intercept officer who keeps track of targets and battlefield conditions and two gunners who each man a rotating heavy laser turret. It has an average speed and a low maneuverability rating, as it is designed to hold formation while engaging enemy fighters from a distance with it's laser cannons and turrets, and engage enemy corvettes and frigates from a distance using it's proton torpedo launchers. It boasts a heavy array of weaponry designed to allow each individual fighter to engage up to three targets simultaneously as well as heavy armor and shielding to protect it from incoming fire as well as chaff launchers designed to confuse enemy sensors-particularly those on the guidance systems of incoming missiles and torpedoes.
