Interstellar Alliance Shial Class Heavy Fighter

Name: Shial
Craft: Interstellar Alliance Shial Class Heavy Fighter
Type: heavy fighter
Scale: walker
Length: 22.23 meters
Skill: starfighter pilot
Crew: 1
Crew Skill: Astrogation: 5D; Communications: 5D; Sensors: 5D; Starship Gunnery: 3D+2; Starfighter Pilot: 5D
Passengers: none
Cargo Capacity: 80 kg
Consumables: 1 day
Maneuverability: 4D
Space: 9
Atmosphere: 400; 1,150 km/h
Hull: 3D+2
Sensors

• Passive: 16 / 0D+1
• Scan: 32 / 1D
• Search: 48 / 1D+1
• Focus: 2 / 2D

Weapons

• Tri-Linked Light Fusion Cannon

Fire Arc: forward
Crew: 1
Scale: starfighter
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 2D+2
Space Range: 1-3/7/13
Atmosphere Range: 10-300/700/1,300m
Damage: 7D+1

• Minbari Jamming Suite

Fire Arc: all
Crew: 1
Skill: sensors
Effect: Enemy Fire Control and Sensors -4D+1

Miscellaneous:

• Artificial Gravity: Yes
• Crew: 1 Pilot
• Average Crew Experience Level: Anla’shok Line
• Stealth: 32 (Base Difficulty to Detect Ship)
• Afterburners
• Atmospheric Capable
• Gravitic Engine
• Minbari Flight Computer
• Minbari Jamming Suite

Description: The predecessor to the standard Nial was a slightly faster and less durable version that used adequate weaponry, but was quickly forgotten about after the newer model proved to be so successful. After years of being delegated to only short trips and colony patrolling, the Shial was mothballed a hundred thousand times over. It was the Anla’shok who then demanded access to the assets instead of simply shutting them away. The Warrior Caste could not care less about the old fighters, so it was granted to them – and they have made very good use of them ever since.

The Shial is more than a match for most other fighters of its class, and with some adjustments the Rangers have made to their already potent ECM generators they could even be considered superior in some ways to the Nial. Lacking the same firepower but hard to find electronically, the Shial makes a perfect scout or reconnaissance fighter; which is one of the main goals of the Rangers as a whole.

Source:

• Babylon 5: Ships of the Galaxy (page 81)
• thedemonapostle