Vorlon Empire Heavy Figher Class

Craft: Vorlon Empire Heavy Fighter
Type: heavy fighter
Scale: starfighter
Length: 25.5 meters
Skill: starfighter pilot
Crew: 0; Automated
Passengers: none
Cargo Capacity: none
Consumables: none
Maneuverability: 3D+1
Space: 8
Hull: 4D+2
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: capital (targeted as starfighter scale)
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 5D
Space Range: 1-3/12/25
Rate of fire: 1
Damage: 24D
- EM Shield (See Notes)
- Fire Arc: all
Crew: 1
Skill: sensors
Range: 1-3/12/25
Effect: Enemy Fire Control and Sensors -2D+2
Miscellaneous:
- Artificial Gravity: Yes
- Crew: None; Automated
- Average Crew Experience Level: Vorlon Elite
- Astrogation: 10D
- Capital Ship Gunnery: 12D
- Communications: 10D
- Sensors: 10D
- Starfighter Piloting: 10D
- Stealth: 21 (Base Difficulty to Detect Ship)
- Hull: 4D+2
- Strength: 2D
- Armor: 2D+2
- Adaptive Armor
- Biological Engine
- Living Ship
Notes:
- EM Shield: All craft attempting to fire on or detect the user of this device suffers the listed -2D+2 penalty to Fire Control and Sensors dice rolls. In addition, the user of this device suffers a -1D+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