CF9 Crossfire Starfighter

Craft: Incom Corp CF9 Crossfire Starfighter
Type: Space superiority Starfighter
Scale: Starfighter
Length: 12.48m
Skill: Starfighter piloting
Crew: 1 and 1 gunner
Crew Skill: Varies by pilot
Passengers: N/A
Cargo Capacity: 70 kilograms
Consumables: 1 week
Cost: Not available for sale
Hyperdrive: x1
Nav Computer: Yes
Maneuverability: 3D+2
Space: 18
Atmosphere: 550; 1,200kmh
Hull: 3D
Shields: 4D+1
Sensors:

• Passive: 40/2D
• Scan: 70/2D
• Search: 110/3D
• Focus: 8/4D

WEAPONS:

• 4 Laser Cannons (fire-linked)
  Location: Mounted on wingtips
  Fire Arc: Front
  Crew: 1 (pilot)
  Skill: Starship gunnery
  Scale: Starfighter
  Fire Control: 4D+2
  Space Range: 1-4/17/35
  Atmosphere Range: 50-400/1.7/3.5km
  Damage: 8D+2
  
• 1 Double Laser Cannon (fire-linked)
  Location: Mounted on back of ship
  Fire Arc: Rear 90 Degrees
  Crew: 1 gunner
  Skill: Starship gunnery
  Scale: Starfighter
  Fire Control: 4D+2
  Space Range: 1-4/17/35
  Atmosphere Range: 50-400/1.7/3.5km
  Damage: 6D
  
• 1 Proton Torpedo Launcher (6 heavy torpedoes)
  Fire Arc: Front
  Skill: Starship gunnery
  Fire Control: 4D+2
  Space Range: 1/3/7
  Atmosphere Range: 100/300/700
  Damage: 12D
  

Characteristics: A relatively short-but-bulky fighter, the Crossfire had a shorter length than previous Incom designed fighters such as the Z-95 Headhunter, the T-65 X-wing Starfighter, and the more-recent X-83 TwinTail Starfighter. Although it shares an indirect design lineage with the X-wing, the Crossfire is noticeably different in its configuration, with its four S-foils in front of a bulky fuselage rather than on its sides. The back S-foil could rotate, folding away for landing and dropping down for combat to form a cross-shaped configuration; this wing was particularly thin so that it would not obstruct the pilot's forward view. In attack position, the wing mounted laser cannons fired in an intersecting cross pattern, giving them longer reach than most Starfighter based weapons.

The pilot controlled the fighter from an enclosed cockpit module in the rear of ship which was entirely sealed off from the rest of the vessel and also contained its sublight drive. In case of being shot down or some other emergency, the pilot would eject by disengaging the module from the rest of the fighter and use the sublight drive to steer towards safety. While cramped, the cockpit module was big enough for two beings, with a second seat facing the modules rearward for an optional gunner, who would control the rear-mounted laser cannons, in a configuration similar to the Snowspeeders the Rebel Alliance used on Hoth. However, because of the limited firing arc of the back guns, and because the craft was prone to executing high speed maneuvers in combat, thus giving the gunner limited opportunities to fire back at pursuing craft, Crossfires very rarely had gunners assigned to them.