[K-F09] Streitkeule

[VK-318]

Location: F09 Arium Minor

Tags: Military, Spaceship

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From: Agent Maeda

To: Internal Affairs c/o Task Force Greengrocer

Subject: Streitkeule - suspicious activities lead?

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Honorable Overseers:

I have followed up the first shipyard contract, located within the Andromeda Galaxy. Results are likely positive. The shipyard in question has recently begun deliveries of a new model of starfighter. Full schematics are attached; a summary is here provided.

The fighter design, named "Streitkeule," is a one-man heavy fighter. Its design is not Kawashita standard: aside from a few superficial similarities to existing designs, namely the two sets of four pylons, which seem to exist purely due to engineering necessities, it carries little of the Kawashita design philosophy. According to my research, the design name means "mace" in an archaik language called "German," and refers to the heavy, blunt, unbalanced weapon designed to penetrate armor. Whether the name is based upon some aesthetic similarity or a harmony of purpose is unclear.

The cockpit is located at the extreme nose of the fighter. The ship is intended to dock in a position vertically aligned with the local gravitational field, meaning that any force not absorbed by the ship's acceleration dampeners will be in a direction that will least disorient the pilot. Control is via helmet-linked HUD - controls are projected onto the helmet's eyepiece lenses, and the movement of the pilot's hands to interact with their perceived location is tracked by the helmet and relayed to the ship's computer. In this way, all controls can be encrypted so that, should a vessel fall into the hands of hostile forces, interface with the computer will be difficult at best.

Each Streitkeule is heavily armed. The four center pylons each bear a standardized weapon hardpoint, allowing a customizable loadout for different missions or task forces. The standard design shown here is equipped with two plasma cannons on the lower hardpoints, a missile launcher on the viewer's upper right, and a smaller-caliber rotary plasma cannon on the viewer's upper left. The nose of the fighter mounts an additional weapon: a small point-defense plasma turret with limited utility against enemy craft.

The Streitkeule uses a tachyon thruster as its propulsion system - the four fin-like pylons surrounding the thruster mouth contain the electromagnets necessary to control the tachyon stream. This propulsion system was developed by multiple entities some time ago because of its usefulness as a FTL warp-style drive system, but was abandoned upon discovery of the GATE network as obsolete, being considerably slower at FTL than a GATE jump, and prone to catastrophic explosion should its drive system experience certain categories of malfunction. Note that standard combat damage almost never triggers this category of malfunction. Technical details can be provided if necessary.

Twenty fighters have been delivered at the time of writing, and production is expected to accelerate. The full order is for two hundred. The source of funding for a project of this magnitude has been difficult to find. In addition to standard confidentiality regulations which had to be bypassed, the payments were made by a dummy holding which I have so far been unable to trace.

The fighters are being delivered by employees of the purchaser. Upon the completion of a batch of ships, a group of trained pilots arrive and take custody of the ships for deliver. Each pilot appears to be of early middle age, and though they are equipped with what appears to be Kawashita-type flight suits, I suspect that they are not Kawashita-trained. They were not forthcoming with the location to which the fighters were to be delivered; however, a check of local flight plan registration showed their listed destination as "Rosenhaus."

Pending further orders, I will continue my investigation with the next shipyard lead.

With respect,

Agent Maeda

Edited August 1, 2016 by VK-318

[av_bossk]

Great design !

[EpsilonEta]

Cool spaceship and good to have you back!

I'm going to "ask"(order) you to put this with the fleet on F09 as a spaceship tag is useless on C09. (I'll also ask staff, aka me, to update the title)

[Professor Thaum]

great spaceship

[VK-318]

Cool spaceship and good to have you back!

Glad to be back!

I'm going to "ask"(order) you to put this with the fleet on F09 as a spaceship tag is useless on C09. (I'll also ask staff, aka me, to update the title)

Okay.

[Andromedas Gates]

The judges awarded you 4 points.

[Dannylonglegs]

Really cool spaceship! Mace indeed! Love the radial symetry all over. And the cockpit design is quite cool! Great work!

~Insectoid Aristocrat

[VK-318]

Really cool spaceship! Mace indeed! Love the radial symetry all over. And the cockpit design is quite cool! Great work!

~Insectoid Aristocrat

Thanks!

I was originally trying to build a 2-man fighter inspired by the Special Forces TIE-Fighter from Star Wars Episode VII, but instead this happened. I'm pretty pleased with it - I don't build minifig-scale vehicles often, and this one turned out better than expected.