Starship Registry Entry
Federation Attack Fighter
Improved Reaction Control System
The ship’s maneuvering thrusters operate with greater precision, allowing the ship to adjust its course more carefully. Whenever a Task to move or maneuver the ship would increase in Difficulty because of obstacles or hazards, reduce the Difficulty by 1 (to a minimum of the Task’s normal Difficulty).
Improved Impulse Drive
The ship’s Impulse drives are more powerful than on most ships, allowing the ship to accelerate much more quickly. When the flight controller succeeds at the Impulse, Attack Pattern, Evasive Action, or Ramming Speed Tasks, they may spend 2 Momentum to increase the Difficulty of attacks against the ship by 1 until the start of the flight controller’s next Turn, due to the ship’s rapid acceleration.
Micro-Torpedoes
1 or 2
After the Battle of Wolf 359 and the Borg’s destruction of the Sol System’s fighter defense forces, designers from the Andorian Imperial Ship Yards in the Andor system proposed a desperately needed new design for a Federation strike fighter based on the popular courier vessel also built by them. Given the unimaginative name of “Attack Fighter”, many of its crews nicknamed them after the Andorian riding animal, “Zabathu.”
The fighter is small enough that it is typically piloted by a single crew member, but training flights and fighters assigned for strike missions typically have two crew assigned. Each fighter has hard-mounted two forward torpedo launchers and a single aft launcher that can double as a probe launcher or cargo delivery system. Current testing is underway on Andor to use these launchers to deliver special forces troops or undercover agents to a planet’s surface where transporters aren’t feasible for use and speed is more of a concern than safety. The fighter also has standard type-5 phaser strips along the edges of the vessel’s warp nacelles, giving it wide firing arcs and providing accurate defensive fire against incoming heavy weapons. The fighter was never assumed to operate on its own, so the designers removed many of the original courier design’s warp coils to provide extra internal space for larger fusion reactors for the impulse drive and shield emitters. This makes the fighter only able to maintain warp speeds for short durations, normally no more than thirty minutes to an hour at lower speeds, and makes it highly dependent on its parent vessel to deliver it close to the battle. As the fighter was based on an older and more reliable design, upgrading the civilian ship is fairly trivial and many Maquis cells use these upgraded vessels as attack ships in their fight against the Cardassians.