TALON Craft: Atran Ardur CS-22 "Talon" Type: Anti-personnel Starfighter Scale: Starfighter Length: 25 meters Skill: Starfighter Piloting; Talon Cost: Not Available Crew: 4 Passengers: 1 Cargo Capacity: 300 kg Consumables: 2 Months Hyperdrive Multiplier: x1.5 Hyper Backup: None Nav Computer: Yes Maneuverability: 2D+1 Space: 7 Atmosphere: 420; 1200 KPH Hull: 3D+2 Shields: 2D+1 Sensors: Passive: 10/1D+1 Scan: 30/2D Search: 50/3D Focus: 4/4D Weapons: 2 G7 Gatling Blaster Cannons (fire separately) Scale: Walker Fire Arc: Front Crew: 1 Skill: Starship Gunnery Fire Control: 2D+1 Space Range: 1-7/25/50 Atmosphere Range:40m-700m/2.5km/5km Damage: 15D 2 Heavy Blaster Cannons (fire linked) Scale: Starfighter Fire Arc: Front Crew: Co-Pilot Skill: Starship Gunnery Fire Control: 2D Space Range: 1-3/12/25 Atmosphere Range:100-300/1.2 km/2.5 km Damage: 5D Brushfire System (12 Fire Linked Repeating Blasters) Scale: Character Fire Arc: Front Crew: Pilot Skill: Starship Gunnery Fire Control: 2D Space Range: 1/2/3 Atmosphere Range: 10-100/200/300 Damage: 12D 2 FAM missiles: Scale: Usualy Starfighter, See Below Fire Arc: Front Crew: Pilot Skill: Starship Gunnery Fire Control: 2D Space Range: Not usable in space Atmosphere Range: 10-30/100/200 Damage: 5D Once Admiral Rochar and the Atran Ardur rose to power, he created a research group of the most talented of Atran Ardur's engineers to create an assassin ship. That ship, the Doomsting, proved remarkably effective at it's task. Instead of disbanding the engineering group, as he had originally planned, Rochar decided to set them to other tasks. One project of particular interest to Admiral Rochar was the Talon. Designed to protect Atran Ardur interests against all opponents, a single Talon in the hands of a skilled crew can engage an entire Imperial combat division. The Talon is virtually incapable of fighting other starfighters, and relies on the support of other Atran Ardur craft, such as the SETH, Bat, and Ardur fighters or Grimlock Cruisers. The Talon carries an impressive array of weapons. The G-7s are it's most powerful combat weapons. Running the length of the craft, they inflict massive amounts of damage on a successful hit, fully capable of destroying a combat walker with a two second burst. The Brushfire System, 12 repeating blasters that cover the sides of the vessel chew up large amounts of terrain, delivering the listed damage to everything within their 15 meter target area. The final weapon, the Fuel Air Munition missiles, are a Atran Ardur innovation designed to destroy massive numbers of enemy personnel, and their power is nothing short of remarkable. When the missiles detonate, the release a cloud of fuel vapors. These highly flammable vapors then detonate, producing a massive explosion. In an ordinary nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere the FAM cause the listed damage to any within it's blast radius of +/- 140 meters. In more combustible atmospheres, the blast can be far more powerful (GM discretion). High gravity worlds can have unpredictable effects on FAMs, sometimes causing them to fail, and sometimes increasing the power of the final explosion (again GM discretion). The range listed for this weapon is it's forward range only; it can plummet down a gravity well from up to 3 km up. The Talon, as with other special purpose Atran Ardur starfighters, is to be replaced with atmospheric versions as soon as they can develop either a combat carrier craft inexpensive enough to justify the conversion, or well defended bases on worlds other than the moons of Jermalar.