Jincilla "Skull" Light Fighter
Name: Skull
Craft: Jincilla Skull Light Fighter
Type: Light Fighter
Scale: starfighter
Length: 12.5 meters (estimated)
Skill: starfighter pilot
Crew: 1
Cargo Capacity: none
Consumables: 6 days
Jump Drive: x100
Nav Computer: yes
Maneuverability: 3D+2
Space: 11
Atmosphere: 435; 1,250 km/h
Hull: 2D
Shields: 1D+1
Sensors
- Passive: 40 / 1D
- Scan: 80 / 2D
- Search: 160 / 3D
- Focus: 4 / 4D
Weapons
- 2 Stream Lasers
- Fire Arc: Forward Narrow
Crew: 1
Scale: walker
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 2D
Space Range: 1-3/5/10
Atmosphere Range: 100-300/500/1,000m
Rate of fire: 6
Damage: 3D
- 4 Light Ordnance Hardpoints
- Fire Arc: Forward Narrow
Crew: 1
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 3D- Snipe Missile
- Scale: starfighter
Space Range: 1-10/20/200
Atmosphere Range: 100-1,000/2,000/20,000m
Rate of fire: 1
Ammo: 2
Damage: 5D+1
- Brute Mk I Missile
- Scale: starfighter
Space Range: 1-20/40/220
Atmosphere Range: 100-2,000/4,000/22,000m
Rate of fire: 1
Ammo: 1
Damage: 7D+1
- Brute Mk II Missile
- Scale: starfighter
Space Range: 1-20/40/240
Atmosphere Range: 100-2,000/4,000/24,000m
Rate of fire: 1
Ammo: 1
Damage: 9D
- Hi-Explosive Mine Tube
- Fire Arc: Aft Narrow
Crew: 1
Scale: starfighter
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 3D
Space Range: N/A
Atmosphere Range: N/A
Rate of fire: 1
Ammo: 10
Damage: 10D
- Electronic Counter Measure Module
- Fire Arc: all
Crew: 1
Skill: sensors
Space Range: 1-13/25/50
Atmosphere Range: 1-25/50/100km
Effects: Enemy Sensors and Fire Control -1D
- Countermeasure Pod Dispenser
- Fire Arc: aft
Crew: 1
Scale: starfighter
Skill: sensors
Fire Control: 3D
Space Range: 1-13/25/50
Atmosphere Range: 1-25/50/100km
Ammo: 10
Rate of fire: 1
Effects: Enemy Sensors & Fire Control -1D
Gear:
- D-Drive
- Matter/Antimatter Power Plant
- Ejection Seat: This accessory allows the vehicle's crew and passengers to safely disembark while it is still in mid-flight. It can be used as the vehicle is being destroyed.
Description: The Skull is one of the deadliest pirate fighters in the Tri-System. Though only a light fighter, and weakly armed, it boasts a level of maneuverability feared by merchants and mercenaries alike - it is the finest fighter ship employed by the Jincilla pirate clan. Their speed makes them ideal for harassment, or as commerce raiders. However, the ship is most infamous for its unusual appearance, which the Jincilla are happy to play up whenever possible.
Skull pilots favor long, sweeping in-and-out strafing runs rather than vulnerable turning fights (although it is quite competent in them). A lone Skull is not much of a threat against a well-armed craft, but Skulls rarely operate alone. They can outrun anything short of a military ML4x extra-heavy fighter, and their tiny profile makes it difficult to hit with guns. Missiles or massed long-range turret fire are the only reliable ways to kill a Skull.
The CIS also operates a Skull, which it uses for undercover operations.
Origin's Official Guide to Privateer 2: The Darkening
The Jincilla Skulls are very hard to kill because they are extremely fast. They aren't particularly aggressive — if you don't shoot at them, they tend to concentrate on everything else at the nav point and ignore you. If you do shoot at them, however, they've got great guns. Because of their speed, you could spend literally half an hour trying to take one out if you don't have a few good missiles. If you're out of afterburner fuel, there's no hope.
If you run across Skulls, your best bet is to wipe them out first thing with a missile, or at least slow them down so that you can finish them off with your guns. They are perhaps the only fighter that's can't be readily killed with guns alone.
Source:
- Wing Commander Encyclopedia: Skull Light Fighter SKUL
- The Wing Commander Role Playing Game (page 323)
- thedemonapostle