Vindicator

Dave-34 was standing on the bridge of the Golden hegemony strike carrier observing the far away battle. This segment of the Golden hegemony task fleet was heavily engaged against the forces calling themselves “Striker”. As the rear guard his lone Strike carrier was tasked with holding the rear or acting as reinforcement. At this moment he would be the surprise reinforcement that would hopefully catch the enemy by surprise. Things however weren’t going to good, the Striker forces were quickly cutting thru the Golden Hegemony fleet like a hot knife thru butter. Their space fighters were much more advance then their own. Hopefully an extra 3200 battlepod and one more capital ship could turn the tide…

Slowly stalking from space debris to space debris a lone Vindicator class Striker was approaching from the blind spot of the Strike carrier’s sensors. On top of this the vindicator had smartly chose to move on impulse thrusters and not with its universe entropic engine. Tapping into the energy that moves galaxies this engine generates power far beyond what normal power generators can muster. It was this frightening high level of technology that was giving the Striker the edge in this conflict. Now within range of the rear of the carrier the Vindicator released 2 of its 8 Longbow nukes and quickly engaged its engine at full power and dove. As the missiles tracked to their target they exploded in two massive balls of fire.

What the@#$! Dave-34 was suddenly thrown from his feet as the micro-thermonuclear warheads exploded against the bulk of the Strike carrier. The other 11 crew members were either out cold or severely injured it was only dumb luck that Dave-34 had fallen on his ass and that was about it. The whole bridge was in disarray 3 out of 4 launch cylinders were damaged beyond repair and drives were just gone. The klaxons started blaring warnings as the enemy who had caused all this chaos powered up its engines to full power. It was a frightening sight to behold; the sleek menacing looking space fighter was now barreling towards Dave-34. It was bristling with the lethalness of all its weapons and the barrel of its lower gatling cannon was starting to spin up to speed. A quick pass with all its weapons blazing netted the vindicator some more critical damage to the carrier.

“#$%#$! This!” Yelled out Dave-34. He quickly jumped into the launch hatch that would put him in the cockpit of an Avenger class BLADE series battlepod. He hit the launch button and the main launch cylinder opened up and all 2000 other battlepods were out.

“Now let’s see who will get destroyed!” thought Dave-34. He quickly brought his main weapons to bear and opened fire. The Vindicator merely meet the fire head on and weaved thru expertly. The pilot at the control was dancing around each shot or missile with a frightening ease. Even the fire from the other battlpods were missing or going wide. All the while the vindicator was opening fire with a wide beam dispersal pattern. Having very advance science the Striker forces did not have physical barrels for their beam weapons which meant that many different beam fire which would not be normally be possible were. The fire from the beams was easily cutting into the battlepods and they were dying by the score for every burst. In a matter of minutes Dave-34 was down to himself and 10 other pods. He had taken no damage so far but he suspected this was not going to last…

After 15 minutes of extremely close dogfighting Dave-34 was out of ablative armouring and he was the lone fighter. Right now he was hiding behind debris but he knew his safety was not going to last long. All of a sudden 5 emerald beams looped around the debris and hit his fighter squarely in the middle. His last though was how much destruction the new enemy was going to bring to his beloved hegemony.

Powering the ship to full power now the Vindicator unfolded its XENO (Xenocide ENchanced Offensive) mode from 2-d space storage. The armor was always there to be called upon but was geometrically folded into a 2-d space when not in use. Due to the very powerful generators this energy intensive process was not much of an issue. Bristling with even bigger weapons the Vindicator headed towards the down carrier to finish the job. The pilot selected mode B for the energy projection systems; Anti-armour beam pattern. Firing this along with the two rail guns the carrier was eliminated in one blow.

The lone Vindicator only tarried for a few moments before turning and heading for the concluding battle.

“Gunslinger Six, reporting in.” Came the low alto of the Striker pilot.

“Mission good gundoll?” Came the gruff voice of her commander.

“Yep not much of a challenge. How did the main battle go?”

“Well as you saw firsthand not really much of a challenge just one fighter lost for close to 30,000 of theirs!”

“Should be an easy war.” Chimed Gunslinger Six.

“Just get your ass back here so we can continue on!” Came back the reply.

“Yes sir!”

“Only a fool would believe that speed could not be a weapon.”

-Striker pilot commenting on the best attributes about the Vindicator

Specs

Classification: Vindicator class Striker

Superior Alliance nick name: Vinnie

Length: 15 meters

Shielding: Standard strength Energy barrier (normal mode), Monster strength energy barrier (Xeno mode)

Armour: Ne0-Carbonium (New form of carbon material)

Powerplant: universe entropic engine x2 (powered by the entropy of the universe)

Top speed: ??? (regular mode), ?? (Xeno mode)

Weapons:

Primary energy projection system, 3 modes:

Mode A: General use beam dispersal

-For use against most enemies, good spread pattern, average strength

Mode B: Anti-armour beam

-For use against capital ships and heavily armoured fighters.

Mode C: Non-linear seekers

-Homing beams for use against quick maneuverable opponents.

5 x micro missile launchers

1 x Under nose hardpoint

2 x Side hardpoints

2 x heavy hardpoints

(Weapon options covered later)

XENO mode

2 x Rail cannons, 10 x micro missile launchers

The standard workhorse space fighter for Striker forces. This fighter design predated many of the newer fighters by a few decades at least. Utilizing the most advanced technologies when it was made it was well ahead of many of the factions most advance fighters. At the core of the design were two universe entropic engines which allowed this fighter to have almost an unlimited amount of power. On top of this was an advance energy manipulation system which allowed for this fighter to have multiple fire patterns that could be switched on the fly. From a general use beam pattern to more specialised seeker and anti-armour beam this fighter was prepared for almost any situation. On top of the power and firepower was astounding speed and maneuverability. Though not as well armoured or shielded when compared to more contemporary Strikers the durability could match the best that many factions could produce.

For versatility several hard points are scattered thru the body. Able to mount a multitude of ordnances these added to the already deadly fighter. If this was not enough then XENO mode could always be activated. By using 2-d space folding technology the bulky armour of the XENO mode could be stored away when not in use. The only drawback was the mass amount of energy required to keep the XENO mode stored. When XENO mode is activated the offensive power of the Vindicator is brought up to another level.