F-95c Morningstar
Type: Heavy Fighter
Manufacturer: Origin Aerospace
Length: 30 meters
Mass: 19 Metric Tonnes
Max Velocity: 400kps
Max Afterburner: 1200kps
Acceleration: 225 k/s2
Max Yaw: 60
Max Pitch: 60
Max Roll: 60
Shield: 280cm equivalent
Armour: 160cm fore/aft, 120cm port/starboard
Weapons: 3 Particle Cannon, 2 plasma cannon, 2 weapons bays with 4 hardpoints each, 1 torpedo bay with 1 hardpoint
Decoys: 30
Jump Capable: no
Primates' Notes:
The service version of the Morningstar entered service only a few weeks before The Battle of Earth after a long and protracted development cycle featuring the infamous Society of Mandarins incident. Designed (in part with input from Todd "Maniac" Marshall) to replace the Thunderbolt and Sabre, she was never available in sufficient numbers to do so. Although a wonderful ship to fly (I know, I flew them), it was maintenance intensive and after the initial prototypes' jump drives proved extremely failure prone they had to be removed. Combat experience proved that 3 beam weapons were not enough firepower by the late 60s, so her second design team (sans Marshall) upped them significantly. When most of Origins facilities were destroyed late in the war Morningstar production completely shut down and Confed switched resources to the Bearcat and Excalibur programs.
She was literally the last of her kind; fighter design would split off into dedicated Torpedo Bomber and Space Superiority Fighter streams in the mid 70s.
Type: Heavy Fighter
Manufacturer: Origin Aerospace
Length: 30 meters
Mass: 19 Metric Tonnes
Max Velocity: 400kps
Max Afterburner: 1200kps
Acceleration: 225 k/s2
Max Yaw: 60
Max Pitch: 60
Max Roll: 60
Shield: 280cm equivalent
Armour: 160cm fore/aft, 120cm port/starboard
Weapons: 3 Particle Cannon, 2 plasma cannon, 2 weapons bays with 4 hardpoints each, 1 torpedo bay with 1 hardpoint
Decoys: 30
Jump Capable: no
Primates' Notes:
The service version of the Morningstar entered service only a few weeks before The Battle of Earth after a long and protracted development cycle featuring the infamous Society of Mandarins incident. Designed (in part with input from Todd "Maniac" Marshall) to replace the Thunderbolt and Sabre, she was never available in sufficient numbers to do so. Although a wonderful ship to fly (I know, I flew them), it was maintenance intensive and after the initial prototypes' jump drives proved extremely failure prone they had to be removed. Combat experience proved that 3 beam weapons were not enough firepower by the late 60s, so her second design team (sans Marshall) upped them significantly. When most of Origins facilities were destroyed late in the war Morningstar production completely shut down and Confed switched resources to the Bearcat and Excalibur programs.
She was literally the last of her kind; fighter design would split off into dedicated Torpedo Bomber and Space Superiority Fighter streams in the mid 70s.