Similar to the Consortium, there are multiple starship with the territories of the United Worlds Warlock. One of these is run by a techno-wizard named Asyribis who is rumored to be the Demi-God offspring of the god Thoth. There are several different classes of "Crystal Shard"craft including fighters, corvettes, and light cruisers. Larger designs are simply too expensive to construct with the ships costing an average of double that of a pure technological design of the same class. While many military leaders and engineers consider the general technology of ships built within the United Worlds Warlock to be inferior to standard technological designs, the Crystal Shard class of ships are considered some of the most effective and powerful ship operating within the Three Galaxies. While the designer has attempted to get contracts with the government to purchase these craft, so far there has been no orders beyond a few purchased for evaluation purposes. Still, even though extremely expensive, these craft have been purchased by techno-wizard mercenary companies and other interested independent parties. These vessels have been used in engagements against pirates and in internal conflicts where they have performed incredibly.
The fighters and ships are built in a similar configuration and are all incredible works of art and the ships look like crystalline manta-rays with its wings bent slightly forward and a shorter tail than is seen in a true manta-ray. The craft are extremely sleek and their configurations makes them ideal to operate in an atmosphere and underwater as well as in space. The fighter version is a bit larger than most fighters such as the Black Eagle operated by the Consortium Armed Forces.
The fighter's hull is constructed out of enchanted crystalline material that are immune to all non magical energy weapons yet is as strong as a normal fighter's hull. The development of the hull appears to be a variation on the enchantments used to construct Mystic Power Armor. Like a Mystic Power Armor, the use of the spell "Armor of Ithan' and focused magical energies can be used to heal damage to the starship. While the fighter being impervious to energy means that a large number of weapons are ineffective against the ship, Asyribis was not satisfied with this and wanted a force field as additional protection. Field tests were performed on "Armor of Ithan" force fields, standard fighter force fields, and "Invincible Armor" force fields. While the "Invincible Armor" required more magical energy than the "Armor of Ithan" force field, it was far stronger and was chosen. The standard force field was not selected because of the systems draw from main power and once dropped, the shield requires a huge amount of power to bring back up.
For propulsion, pure technological engines were selected and the fighter is equal in top acceleration to a Consortium Black Eagle although the crystal fighter is a bit larger and the gravity drives are a bit larger and require more power with power being provided by a powerful fusion reactor. An interesting feature is that the fusion reactor is inside a permanent dimensional pocket. This was done to protect the ship from a collapsing fusion bottle but has the interesting advantage of making the fighter's neutrino signature virtually non existent. A huge amount of research went into developing a better Rift drive for the fighter but without success and a conventional contra-grav FTL propulsion was eventually selected. It was found that the contra-grav system was more reliable and could be activated more often (allowing easy escapes from star systems). Top speed is only two light years per hour although the engines on the larger crystal starships are far faster and more efficient.
One of the larger problem with the weapon systems on many United Worlds Warlock designs is that they are much shorter ranged than conventional weapons. For that reason, conventional weapons were selected for the main weaponry with three HI-Laser cannons and a heavy gravity rail gun as the fighter's main weaponry. The HI-Laser cannons are identical to those carried by the Black Eagle star fighter and the gravity rail gun is the GR-1000 Gravity Rail gun which is one of the heaviest fighter carried rail guns ever developed. The techno-wizard Asyribis considered Bottled Demon missiles too dangerous as well being both expensive and hard to acquire at times. Due to this, a conventional missile layout was selected. The fighter has two launchers for medium range missiles with one inside of each wing and a large missile bay under the fuselage. Each of the medium range missile bays can carry eight medium range missiles and the main bay can carry four cruise missiles or a larger number of smaller missiles. Medium range missiles were selected instead of mini-missiles or short range due to having much greater range. In the main bay, two long range missiles or four medium range missiles can be substituted for a cruise missile. It is likely that the launchers would be adapted for "cruise" style bottle demon missiles if the fighter is adopted by the United Worlds Warlock.
Fighter design uses modified starship speeds and weapon ranges. See Revised Starship Rules for Phase World for more details.
Model Type: TI CF-02-B
Vehicle Type: Medium Interceptor and Attack Fighter
Crew: One (has space for one passenger)
M.D.C. By Location:
| GR-1000 Gravity Rail Cannon (Center, under cockpit): | 80 | |
| HI-Laser Cannons (3, built into body): | 100 each | |
| Ordnance Bays (underside of main body): | 225 | |
| Medium Range Missile Launchers (2, underside of "wings"): | 120 each | |
| [1] Main Body: | 900 | |
| Reinforced Pilots Cockpit | 180 | |
| [2] Magical "Invincible Armor" Force Field: | 500 |
Notes:
[1] Depleting the MDC of the main body will put the fighter out of
commission. All internal systems will shut down, including life support
and internal gravity. The ship itself will be an unsalvageable floating
wreck. Note: The fighter is impervious to all non magical energy
weapons. Hull can also be completely regenerated with the spell "Armor
of Ithan" and 600 P.P.E.
[2] This is not a variable force field, but a magical shield that must
be completely depleted. Once the shield has been knocked down, it will
cost 50 P.P.E. and require one minute ( 4 melees) of spell casting to restore
the force field. When knocked down, no additional damage beyond which destroyed
the shield will be transferred to the fighter.
Speed:
Driving on the Ground: Not Possible.
Sublight: Has a special sub-light engine that allows the ship
to travel up to 40 percent of the speed of light. Fighter can accelerate/decelerate
at the rate of 1.6 percent of light per melee.
Atmospheric Propulsion: Maximum speed is Mach 8 (5,930 mph /
9,550 kph), can enter an atmosphere because flight system is by contra
grav. Because all ordnance are in bays, they do not reduce the fighters
atmospheric top speed.
Surface Travel: Can Float on the surface or can travel as a
hydrofoil on the surface of the water with a top speed of 500 mph (805
kph / 435 knots)
Underwater: Has a maximum speed underwater of 69 mph (60 knots/
111.2 kph)
Maximum Depth: 5 miles (8.05 km)
Stardrive: The fighter has a special Gravitronic Drive system
which allows the fighter to reach a maximum of two light-years per hour.
Maximum Range: Effectively Unlimited by drive system but only
has supplies for pilot for six weeks.
Statistical Data:
Length: 44.5 feet (13.6 meters) including stinger tail
Height: 15.8 feet (4.8 meters)
Width: 54.2 feet (16.5 meters)
Weight: 22.5 tons (20.4 metric tons)
Power System: Combination Fusion & Techno-wizardry with
10 year life span. Stored in a special dimensional pocket. The fighter
also has a P.P.E. generator that produces 200 P.P.E. per hour and can hold
up to 400 P.P.E. in storage. This P.P.E. can be used to power the spells
cast by the fighters crew and enchantments on the fighter.
Cargo: Utility closet (4 x 2 x 2 feet / 1.2 x .6 x .6 m) for
personal effects.
Market Cost: 160 million credits.
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