Spear

“If we make any more of these things we’ll have to obsolete human pilots pretty soon.”

Wing commander voicing his opinion on the Spear.

Speed: Mach 35

Length: 25 meters

Armour: Duratanium

Shielding: Magnetic shield unit

Reactor: 3 cold fusion

Armament: 12 x pulse laser (6 mounted on each engine block), 2 x mega pulse laser (mounted on nose of fighter), 16 x micro missile ports (8 mounted on each engine block, 4 reloads per port) 1 x heavy plasma cannon (mounted under fighter)

Like most medium class units, the Spear was the main workhorse of the Grand Alliance space forces. As such it was equipped to take down any medium class units it would encounter, rip thru light units with ease, and if need be engage and harass heavy units. It was ENABLED with highly manuverable single use arms. They could not be mount weapon options like Star Hornets, but were more movable and articulated. This meant that the Spear was more manuverable and due to its large engines faster as well. For defense it had enough armour and shielding to withstand 2 attacks from a heavy unit and could just barley survive a near miss from a cap ships main gun. It didn’t require propellant tanks due to the engine being fusion driven engines (nuclear pulse engines). It had to return to stock up on fusion fuel but for most practical purposes had very good combat range.

The weapons mounted on each engine block consisted of 6 pulse lasers and 8 micro missile ports. One weapon cluster could rip thru most light mechs with ease. Whole swarms of light fighter could be taken down if a Spear fired both weapon clusters together. The plasma cannon could go thru several light mechs in one shot, destroy a medium mech in 1 or 2 shots and most heavy mechs would take 15 seconds of continual fire. The final weapons were the nose mounted mega pulse laser, these were redundant with all the pulse lasers already mounted but were added to give some more punch.

The overall package was more then adequate for the mission it was sent on. This allowed for large number of Spears to perform multiple missions with out modifications or change in equipment. As with most medium units it had no real strengths but no glaring weaknesses as well.