Vorlon Empire Heavy Figher Class

Name: Heavy Fighter
Craft: Vorlon Empire Heavy Fighter
Type: Heavy Fighter
Scale: starfighter
Length: 25.5 meters
Skill: starfighter pilot
Crew: Automated
Crew Skill: Astrogation: 12D+2; Capital Ship Gunnery: 10D+1; Communications: 12D+2; Sensors: 12D+2; Starfighter Pilot: 12D+2
Passengers: none
Cargo Capacity: 110 kg
Consumables: 2 weeks
Maneuverability: 3D+1
Space: 8
Hull: 4D
Sensors

• Passive: 52 / 1D+2
• Scan: 104 / 3D+1
• Search: 156 / 4D+2
• Focus: 5 / 6D+1

Weapons

• Discharge Gun

Fire Arc: forward
Crew: 0; Automated
Scale: death star (targeted as starfighter scale)
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 6D
Space Range: 1-18/45/90
Damage: 3D+2

• EM Shield (See Notes)

Fire Arc: all
Crew: 1
Skill: sensors
Effect: Enemy Fire Control and Sensors -3D+2

Miscellaneous:

• Artificial Gravity: Yes
• Crew: None; Automated
• Average Crew Experience Level: Vorlon Elite
• Stealth: 21 (Base Difficulty to Detect Ship)
• Adaptive Armor
• Biological Engine
• Living Ship Matrix

Notes:

• EM Shield: All craft attempting to detect and/or fire upon a ship with this device active suffers a penalty of -3D+2 to Fire Control and Sensors. In addition, the user of this device suffers a -2D+1 penalty to their own Sensors and Fire Control attempts.

Description: The only defense the relatively slow-moving Vorlons have against enemy fighters and fast-attack cutters, the Vorlon fighter is more a very small ship than it is an actual fighter.

Fast and maneuverable in comparison to their bigger brethren, the Vorlon fighter is a powerful combatant that can absorb a great deal of damage that would otherwise cripple other races’ fighters. Using these natural defenses, they can get in close to an enemy and unleash a very powerful stream of electromagnetic discharges not unlike those that come from the weapons of a destroyer, just on a smaller scale.

When a flight group of these fighters focuses its attention – and its weapons – on even a larger capital ship, they find it easy to carve off large chunks in seconds. Their discharge arrays pour fire into a target while their multi-directional bio-drives allow them to dance around it, never letting it out of their sight, or line of fire.

Source:

• The Babylon 5 Project: Vorlon fighter
• Babylon 5: Ships of the Galaxy (pages 90-91)
• thedemonapostle