Approved Starship Rawl-Class Heavy Fighter

[Orn'om]

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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

• Intent: To make a heavy fighter for use by various Mandalorian groups
• Image Source: Gifs from Star Citzen Hornet Commercial made by [member="Strider Garon"] "Star Citizen fan art" by, Dmitriy Leonovich
• Canon Link: Mandalorian Ripper
• Restricted Missions: None
• Primary Source: Mandalorian Gunship Mk.2 ; Purudii Mk.2

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

• Manufacturer: MandalMotors
• Model: Rawl-Class Heavy Fighter
• Affiliation: Various Mandalorian Major and Minor Factions, Closed-Market
• 
  Production: Minor
  
• Material:
  ​Mandalorian Steel Frame and Hull
• Durasteel
• Transparisteel
• Starship Components

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

• Classification: Super Heavy Fighter
• Length: 23 Meters
• Width: 24 Meters (20 Meters when landed and wings retracted)
• Height: 5.5 Meters
• Armament: Extreme
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  ​Dual Rotating heavy laser cannons
• Dual Laser cannons
• Flex-Tube Missile Launcer
• Heavy Laser Turret

[*]Defenses: Average
[*]Squadron Count: Very Low: 4
[*]Maneuverability Rating: Moderate
[*]Speed Rating: Average
[*]Hyperdrive Class: None
STANDARD FEATURES

• Military Targeting Computers
• Aural Sensor
• Standard Military Sensor Package

ADVANCED SYSTEMS

• Astromech Socket
• Advanced Maneuvering Jets

Strengths:

• Arsenal: Heavily armed fighter with a myriad of weapons
• Snubfighter: Don't let its size fool you. Despite its profile and heavy weapons loadout, the Rawl-class heavy fighter moves through space just as well if not better than some other smaller fighters.

Weaknesses:

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• Supervision Required: Without a hyperdrive the Rawl-class fighter is forced to be ferried around the galaxy in the hangars of larger ships.
• Supervision Required 2: Without astromech or other flight assist droid the pilot is limited to two of its four weapons at a time, forcing them to switch off weapons systems to activate others.

Description: A fully geared out mainstay fighter. That is what the Purudii-class starfighter was for MandalMotors and many Mandalorian clans for the last few years since their war with the Sith Empire. It saw a large amount of popularity outside of the Mandalorian market as well due to its easily replaceable parts and relatively low upkeep costs. MandalMotors attempted to re-create that magic with the Rawl-Class heavy fighter. Derived from lessons learned both with the Mandalorian Gunship Mk. 2 and the Purudii-class starfighter, the engineers at MandalMotors merged the two starship ideologies to make a large starfighter with a relatively low upkeep cost. Because it is based off of the Purudii's design, it uses many of the same parts allowing for easily purchased and cheap alternatives to purchasing full priced new parts for the fighter.

Armed to the teeth it also has two rotating heavy laser cannons and a nose mounted laser/ion cannon which allows the pilot to switch between lethal and non-lethal modes of attack. Located just behind the cockpit is the ship's eyecatcher, the dual heavy laser cannon and underneath the ship lies a ventral flex-tube Ordinance Launcher. Without propers assistance from some sort of astromech droid the pilot can only utilize two weapons systems at a time making a flying buddy essential to get full use out of the ship as dealing with the weapons and utilizing the maneuvering jets to their full potential is nearly impossible. A ventral astromech socket allows for the flightbuddy to lock in to the ship before launching.

Without a hyperdrive the Rawl is limited in where it can go. Essentially chained to its home hangar or mothership holds a similar theme to some of MandalMotors' other recent designs which line up with the Mandalorian Empire's goals making it a mainstay for some Mandalorian Clans for holding their assets and land.

 

[Gir Quee]

Under Review.

 

[Gir Quee]

Dual Rotating Energy propelled mass driver cannons

Does the "Energy Propelled" descriptor of this weapon make it any different in terms of practical gameplay effects than a typical mass driver cannon?

Hyperspace Ring Adapter

In terms of gameplay balance, this largely negates the balance of not having a hyperdrive. We've got a couple of options for this:

1) Add an additional significant weakness
2) Decrease one rating
3) Remove the hyperspace ring adapter

Snubfighter: Don't let its size fool you. Despite its profile and heavy weapons loadout, the Rawl-class heavy fighter moves through space just as well if not better than other smaller fighters.

If you'll change the latter part of this sentence to "if not better than some smaller fighters". The reason being is that there are some fighters out there that have a higher maneuverability rating than "Moderate", which means that they are more maneuvering better than this fighter.

 

[Orn'om]

[member="Gir Quee"] In legends canon the Mandalorian Ripper energy propelled slug thrower was used to bypass particle shields. This effectively only makes it better against starfighters and ships with only energy shields rather than the standard two (energy and particle)

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[Gir Quee]

[member="Zeke Farthen"], based on its ability to bypass standard particle shields, this ripper probably needs its own sub then.

 

[Orn'om]

[member="Gir Quee"] added the canon link to the ripper

 

[Gir Quee]

[member="Zeke Farthen"], I'm familiar with the canon weapon.

What I meant is that this starfighter grade version of the Ripper will need its own tech submission. The canon item is a handheld pistol that is "legally classified" as a disruptor. Disruptor weaponry is a touchy subject because of its inherent power, nevermind it being scaled up to be more powerful. That is why this will need a new submission, unless we're specifically mounting a handgun onto this ship.

 

[Orn'om]

[member="Gir Quee"] It also says in the wiki that it is very much a slugthrower and not a disruptor, the Old Republic labeled it as such to ban it from their worlds but doesn't act like a disruptor at all. But if the factory is gonna make such a fuss about a weapon that really only hurts underpowered ships because of a single word again then I'll just change the weapon.

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[Gir Quee]

Awesome. Pending Secondary Approval. Thanks! [member="Jamie Pyne"]

 

[Ellie Mors]

Approved.